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...

Craft Cocktail Co London - Cocktail Bar Review

The Cocktail Club Bethnal Green
Bethnal Green

Born of JJ Goodman infamy, Craft Cocktail Company have taken your liquid pondering and made it a reality. Cocktails on tap, cocktails from kegs and cocktails all kinds of bottled,...
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Guerrilla Eats goes weekly

Guerrilla Eats settle down to a more permanent plot this September in Manchester. While a fond farewell will be soon be spurned upon Up In Your Grill, there's another street...
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Bird and Beast hatches a new Manchester plan

Bird and Beast
Central Manchester

A delish-double marinated endeavour from Leeds' Bird and Beast, this overtly popular chicken concept restaurant lands in Manchester in Early 2015, basted birds in tow. Raising the pecking order for...
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El Capo launch new Cellar Cantina

From Andean states down to the Southern Cone, never has a venue in Manchester appeared to sweep so many South American and Mexican borders; until El Capo came 'a' calling...
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The Botanist - Restaurant Bar Review

The Botanist
Chelsea

Chelsea is more than just a destination, it's something of a lifestyle; and from my visit this weekend, an inherently luxe one at that. Epitomising everything that this overtly ostentatious...
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The Jones Family Project - Restaurant Bar Review

The Jones Family Project
Shoreditch

The gentrification of Shoreditch may have boozy patty patrons and Jammie Dodger cocktail crooners quaking in their boots, but when it encourages a cosmopolitan restaurant like The Jones Family Project to...
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