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Dining Out is an email newsletter by professional silly billy Lauren O’Neill, who is the Managing Editor for Polyester Zine, and a writer for the Guardian, the Observer magazine, Vogue, Time Out, GQ, Sir! and more. For some mental reason, Lauren won the Guild of Food Writers Award for Self Published Online Food Writing in 2025 for Dining Out, and was named one of Gemma Bell and Company’s “people to pay attention to” for 2026. She is from Birmingham and lives in south east London.