Katie Kirwan

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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, The Standard, and Bar Magazine, and she has more than 880 articles to her name at DesignMyNight.

Favourite cocktail bar

Black Dove, Brighton
Favourite restaurant

Bonsai Plant Kitchen
Special skill

Finding the best taco restaurant nearby.

Recent articles...

Digbeth's Rainbow Venues Get A Facelift

The biggest players when it comes to the Birmingham club scene have unveiled even further plans to expand their empire and make Summer in Digbeth a season to remember. Only a...

A hearty morsel of Scandi chic arrives with the Norjske pop up bar

7 Years of Hertz
Digbeth

With the winter chill set to storm Birmingham like a battering ram of icky, there's a new pop up bar in Birmingham promising to bring a little Northern European warmth...

Le Truc throws a Bastille Day party at the Arcadian

Got a hankering for all things European? Love the independence of the French? Or just fancy chowing down on some of the finest street food in Birmingham? Well then, you're...

Q Club returns with a Student Night to remember

Cool It Events are hailing this student night in Birmingham as the biggest one the city has ever seen, and whilst normally we would do some deep investigative reporting to...

Island Bar unveil innovative new cocktail menu

As if these shaker wielding warriors weren't churning out enough tasty concoctions as it was, Island Bar have upped the ante when it comes to fanciful flavours and tongue-in-cheek tipples....

'Swap 'Til You Drop': Vintage clothes swap party

Got some old wares that you fancy donating to a better cause? Feeling that it's time to be out with the old and in with the....old, this Winter? Then The...

Is your singing voice Trapped in the Closet?

Now, most of you will be familiar with the smooth talker that is R Kelly, but how about his Trapped in the Closet series? A tongue in cheek (possibly not...

The Rectory - Bar Review

The Rectory
Jewellery Quarter

50-54 St Paul's Square, Birmingham, B3 1QS. View on map. Sit back, relax and take your time, The Rectory in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter doesn't have any plans to go anywhere and neither should...

Cocktail bar takes on an adventurous Victorian twist

Lost & Found Birmingham
Birmingham City Centre

Cocktails are the very heart of what makes The Lost and Found so adventurous; promising forgotten classics and new inventions themed around Victorian explorer Hettie G. Watson. A relaxed setting...