Lauren Dinse is the food and drink writer for Time Out Melbourne. She first discovered she had a thing for food as a student, looking at her bank account in dismay after realising she’d spent almost her entire weekly budget on truffled-spiked blue cheese, wine and edible flowers from the South Melbourne Market. While her spending issues may have relaxed, Lauren’s appetite for life’s sensory pleasures has not. When she’s not hitting up the best of Melbourne’s restaurants and late-night haunts, she loves camping in nature, music festivals, cosy movie days in, and scampering around Carlton Gardens with her sister’s chihuahua. Lauren has an arts degree in English Literature and Anthropology from the University of Melbourne and has worked as a freelance writer for close to a decade.
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