Katie Kirwan is Head of Brand & B2C at DesignMyNight and a
recognised nightlife and hospitality expert with over 13 years of
experience, having visited more than 500 of the UK's best
restaurants, bars and cultural experiences.
Her expertise is regularly featured in
The Times,
Time Out and Bar
Magazine, and with 880 articles to her name at
DesignMyNight.
With London quiz nights pushing their bingo boundaries, we thought it only right to get to know one of its front runners. More Legs Eleven than elevensies, we chat to...
Hubble, bubble, toil, burgers and trouble. With a penchant for Buffy and a dress code more affiliated with The Craft than, (okay, offers to buy me a black dungaress dress...
Arabian days, Arabian nights, Arabian kind of mid-afternoon-ish and Arabian mornings. If anyone has stuck to time-honoured interiors, it was clearly Kenza. Descending a lamp lit, bejeweled staircase into the...
Samuel Johnson once said that his 'strength lies in my tenacity', and if there's anything to echo that, it's Manchester's new opening scene. Unbadgered, and persistent in its perusal of...
While some of you are all 'heights schmeights' and that's lovely for you, those with a vying for vertigo might want to look away promptly. Transforming this proud, pickle shaped arena...
Pushy pubs may often seem to make up the bones of the London hospitality industry, but there's sweet digs in King's Cross that have no time for that tanked up...
Making the art of supper clubs more hambidextrous than ever, Oink: Swine Dining is the first food event in London of its kind to make an absolute pig's ear of...
The rattle of single-speeds, the plucky patriotism of street food and that really, really cute dog in sunglasses. Shoreditch is known for plenty of, dare I say it 'hipster-isms' (I...
Fantastical, whimsical, and more like a Jules Verne novel and Jumanji hybrid than a restaurant bar in East London, it's around the world in 80 Trading House teasers as this...
Never mind what you like to call 'restaurants' and afternoons with tuna sandwiches on tanked up benches, pop ups are the new populaire of edible ploughing. So how is London's...
What do you think of when your Nan springs to mind? For me it was budgies, chest clenching honesty, snow globes and that one time she chased a field full...
