Katie Kirwan

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Katie Kirwan is the Head of Brand & B2C at DesignMyNight. A recognised nightlife and hospitality expert, Katie brings over 12 years of experience to the table, having visited over 500 of 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 hospitality 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...

The palatable pleasures of Nude Noir

Jan 29, 2015

As tales of bed ties and titillating trinkets ring true in the precursor to the 50 Shades movie launch, and digital publications the likes of AFT refuse to adhere to...

Aeronaut - Bar Review

Jan 27, 2015

Aeronaut
Acton

I've never dreamt of running away with the circus, I always liked my mum too much. But now that i'm all grown up, packing my own lunchboxes with Dairylea Dunkers...

It's all swing and scoundrels at this new subterranean juice joint in Soho

Jan 15, 2015

Cahoots
Soho

This new juice joint in Soho? Sounds like a ca-hoot. Brought to the city by the Inception Group, Cahoots is the latest in London's subterranean ventures. An underground destination 'where...

Up and coming tales of Paradise Row

Jan 14, 2015

Don't be bamboozled by the neon siren call of the petrol garage outside, or chuggin' tales of 18th Century boxing babe, Daniel Mendoza, Paradise Row in eclectic ol' E2 has...

Cupid, Donner and, er, Blixen. Fresh new eatery takes to Old Spitalfield Market

Jan 13, 2015

Blixen
Liverpool Street

While the tessellation of their logo may lead even those hardened to optical illusions a little eyeball rattled, there's simplicity to the offering that this new Spitalfield haunt has to...

London's Urban Food Fest hotfoots it to Bridgewater Street

Jan 9, 2015

You've huffed hot nitbits at any and all B.EAT Street events, and you've gorged on goodies down at Guerilla Eats, but what next for Manchester's ever blossoming street food scene?...

Remember that delicious evening at Gone Camping? It was in-tents.

Jan 5, 2015

Did you know that on average, it takes one person over six buckets of sweat, nine whole hours, three emotional breakdowns and one harrowing boo-boo to put up a two...

DF/Mexico - Restaurant Bar Review

Dec 16, 2014

DF Tacos Shoreditch
Shoreditch

You've tripped and rollicked your way through the Rough Trade photobooth, you've considered a tour of the Old Truman Brewery, thought about it some more and spent that hard earned...

From gastro pub to rustic glug as The Queensbury open new kitchen joint

Dec 12, 2014

The Queensbury Kitchen
Willesden

While lavish and leafy dining has dominated The Queensbury name, their second plot is bringing boozin' and bites back down to a more approachable level. A slick, salvage yard of...

Is this Hackney's smallest wine bar? Wine don't we find out...

Dec 5, 2014

PINCH
Hackney

Once a deli, now a teeny tiny taste station for some of Spain, France and Italy's finest wines, Pinch is throwing corked caution to the wind as they announce themselves to be...

Crystalline dinner sittings as The Coal Shed plans to open a second, seafront restaurant

Dec 3, 2014

The Salt Room
Town Centre

Three traits of a well spent weekend in Brighton? Whirligigs, a swift dentist appointment post-rock munching and the licking of plates at The Coal Shed. Meaty morsels that have found...

Peony - Cocktail Bar Review

Dec 1, 2014

Peony
Soho

You'd think that with affordable Oriental chow and all-you-can-scoff destinations on tap, i'd have more sense than to stroll on through Chinatown, but with Opium having launched their latest libation...

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