Katie Kirwan

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Head of Brand & B2C at DesignMyNight since 2013, Katie leads DesignMyNight's brand, business strategy and team. With over 11 years in digital restaurant, bar and experience marketing, Katie remains food and drink obsessed, always on the hunt for a great Japanese restaurant serving up agadeshi tofu or sushi. Katie provides regular insights into the industry, with bylines in The Times and Time Out.

Katie was a UK Content Awards judge in 2022, and her team took home the trophy as 'Best In-House Content Team of the Year' at the UK Content Awards Winner in 2023, nominated again in 2024. Her team have also been nominated in the UK Digital PR Awards in 2024, for 'Best Use Of Creativity'.

Favourite cocktail bar

Black Dove, Brighton
Favourite restaurant

Bonsai Plant Kitchen
Special skill

Finding the best taco restaurant nearby.

Recent articles...

Kenza - London Restaurant Bar Review

Aug 17, 2015

Kenza Restaurant and Lounge
Liverpool Street

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...

5 New Openings to Try in Manchester

Aug 12, 2015

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...

Moroccan Sky Riad - London Pop-Up Review

Jul 27, 2015

Moroccan Sky Riad
Liverpool Street

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...

Isn't it too dreamy? A Twin Peaks Pop-Up restaurant comes to London

Jul 16, 2015

'I'm Audrey Horne and I get what I want' It's not where pies go to die, it's the latest in London pop-ups giving cult TV loving kids a chance to...

The Fellow - London Pub Review

Jul 2, 2015

The Fellow
Kings Cross

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...

Pop-Up Pork - We interview James Purdie of Oink: Swine Dining

Jun 30, 2015

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...

Tonic & Remedy - London Restaurant Bar Review

Jun 25, 2015

Tonic and Remedy
Shoreditch

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...

The Trading House - London Restaurant Bar Review

Jun 17, 2015

The Trading House
St Pauls

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...

Our Interview with the team behind sell-out supper club, Beehive Place

Jun 12, 2015

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...

Little Nan's Cocktail Den - Pop-Up Bar Review

May 27, 2015

Little Nan's Cocktail Den
Peckham

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...

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...

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