Katie Kirwan

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Katie Kirwan is the Head of Brand & B2C at DesignMyNight, where she has been shaping the website's voice and strategy since 2013. A recognised nightlife and hospitality expert, Katie brings over 12 years of experience to the table, exploring the UK's best restaurants, bars and cultural experiences.

Not only about Japanese food (she'll never skip agedashi tofu when it's on the menu), Katie is on the pulse of the best quality cocktails for £11 and less in London, and can always be found in quirky museums too. Need a table at The Devonshire? She can help with that.

Beyond DesignMyNight, Katie Kirwan's expertise is regularly featured in top publications, including The Times, Bar Magazine and Time Out.

Favourite cocktail bar

Black Dove, Brighton
Favourite restaurant

Bonsai Plant Kitchen
Special skill

Finding the best taco restaurant nearby.

Recent articles...

Joe's Southern Kitchen Kentish Town - London Restaurant Bar Review

May 26, 2015

Joe's Southern Table & Bar Kentish Town
Camden

Three animals that have eyes bigger than their brains? The ostrich, the tarsier and the colossal squid. One animal that has eyes bigger than their stomach? The colossal Katie Houghton....

Pop Brixton to bring South London a taste of Shoreditch's shipping container scoffing

May 8, 2015

Shipping containers: reserved for bleak British crime dramas, Batman backdrops, the global handling industry, and good grub. And kidnapping, but don't do that, kidnapping is bad. While most are familiar...

From Miami to Japan: Palates get jet setting with new Clapham restaurant

Apr 30, 2015

Mommi
Clapham

A synthesis relatively new to the Clapham scene, Mommi is a new restaurant bar on the high street boasting 'the vibrancy of Miami, the eclecticism of Venice Beach, the upbeat...

Our Guide to Great Escape 2015

Apr 29, 2015

A must-try for guys, gals and gulls alike, The Great Escape Festival returns to Brighton's shores this May, with a 10th birthday in tow. Heralded for their niche venues, global...

The Schoolhouse Battersea - Restaurant Bar Review

Apr 23, 2015

The Schoolhouse
Battersea

Bad haircuts, lagging lunchboxes and two dead Tamagotchis. Let's face it, most of us are still making the same school tailored mistakes, even today: Your Hackney haircut cost too much,...

The Best of London's Summer Street Food Markets 2015

Apr 22, 2015

While priding it in your gravel laden, London back garden with a packet of 99p cumberlands and a £5 disposable BBQ is a perfectly good way to work with any...

Casa Negra Shoreditch - Restaurant Bar Review

Apr 21, 2015

Casa Negra
Shoreditch

What do you get when you cross the Mexican-suave of Gael Garcia Bernal, a soft shell crab and the rambunctious attitude of your eclectic mate Dave who played in that...

Happy as a clam at high tide; Blues Kitchen plans to open in Brixton spark Southern excitement

Apr 9, 2015

Blues Kitchen Brixton
Brixton

As the bustle of Brixton continues to ever bulge (you need only get stuck in the 6pm post-tube rampage to know it), it was only right that Blues Kitchen took...

Showtime Cabaret - Event Review

Apr 1, 2015

Showtime Cabaret
Central London

What's loud, proud and covered in tassels? While it could be your Nan's gaff circa the 70s, it also just so happens to be one of the most ritzy joints...

Please-me potions from new apothecary inspired restaurant in Shoreditch

Mar 17, 2015

Tonic and Remedy
Shoreditch

Nabbing a plucky plot under the eye-swaddling optical illusion that is the new M By Montcalm Hotel on City Road in Shoreditch, Tonic & Remedy is a new apothecary inspired...

The Last Tuesday Society - Cocktail Bar Review

Mar 9, 2015

The Absinthe Parlour At The Last Tuesday Society
Hackney

Viktor Wynd, creator, writer, antiquarian and founder of London's beloved Lost Society is renowned for being a man that takes no pleasure in classification, conformity or comprehensiveness, and it's more...

Drunken Monkey bull-doze their way to a second, whisky supping Shoreditch site

Feb 25, 2015

Bull In A China Shop
Shoreditch

You may have dabbled in dim-sum at Drunken Monkey, but the dapper chappers behind this oriental Shoreditch treat are shacking up shop at a new Shoreditch plot, as Bull In...

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