Larissa Dubecki is a writer and restaurant critic who began as a news reporter at the Age in 2000 before realising life would be cheaper and more rewarding if she was paid to eat in restaurants. From 2009 to 2014 she was the Good Food Guide’s chief critic. She currently reviews restaurants for Time Out and contributes to delicious., Australian Gourmet Traveller and the Guardian, among others.

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