Rosie’s

Rosie’s is a quirky little café in Brixton Village which kind of has the feel of a country/​seaside tea room… a tea room that also happens to sell delicious cocktails!!!
During the day you can get a great lunch and on some evenings it’s a lovely place to have a drink with a friend — the background music tends to be pretty funky too.
Every time I’ve been there the staff have always been lovely too which is the best thing about the place. Would definitely recommend it.

I work in the Brixton village market and I have to say that this place is THE BEST place for breakfast! Beautifully prepared food and lovely staff! Such a relief to come to a place with no attitude, good coffee and a variety of options to suit every foodie! Try the ricotta and prosciutto on French toast or the truffled sandwich!

Rosie will always whip up a vegan soup or salad for you if it’s not already on the menu, though I gotta say — my firm favourite is the recent arrival of the green smoothie. Coconut water, cashews, spinach, date molasses, and ice cubes — it was freshly made and done in under a minute, and I drank it in around 60 seconds too :) Bonus feature — if you order a Ms Cupcake cupcake from next door (or any other dessert), you can bring it to Rosie’s to have some tea with it.

I would have given them 4 stars if it wasn’t for the extremely rude service. We were very patient and polite but for some reason both the server and the owner were smug and rude. The eggplant and hummus sandwich was bland. The scrambled eggs were great.

Out of all of the fabulous collection of eateries in the Brixton Market, I found myself drawn to Rosie’s. Obviously, I couldn’t seem to get it out of my mind that this beautiful hidden café had been created just for my benefit (that’s my name don’t wear it out), but the menu of interesting sandwiches fillers made my stomach growl.
I’m not a huge sandwich fan. It’s like making a really good cup of tea for someone else — how long do you leave the bag in for? Do you squeeze the bag? Do you stir? Anyway, I always find that with a sandwich there is much too much bread and not enough filling.
I nearly chose the aubergine and tallegio sandwich, when my eyes strayed across the Rosie’s Ruben on Rye. Apologies to sandwich fanatics, but I had no idea that a ‘Ruben’ was an established sandwich. And it was good. Really good.
Pastrami. Gherkins. Mustard. Sauerkraut. All bursting from within two fluffy slices of caraway seed bread.
I couldn’t recommend this choice enough if your nose doesn’t wrinkle at the word ‘gherkin’.
I’ve got to say that despite the wonderful food and the friendly service from a bearded waiter, it was pretty slow. As far as I was aware there weren’t that many customers, and for a small establishment there were three members of staff.
In all fairness however, I don’t believe that this would have been so notably felt had I been with a crowd of friends.
This is definitely a café not to be side-​tracked.
(TIP! Rosie’s only accepts cards over the cost of £10. If you got to the cash and carry in the Brixton Market there is a free cash machine — the kind bearded waiter pointed me in this direction)

Excellent lunch spot! Nice, colourful and cosy with very friendly staff.
Rosie serves an array of healthy lunch options that won’t leave you needing an afternoon nap. I had a very tasty wholewheat harvest pie filled with spinach, potato, a host of other yummy veg and a side salad for around six quid.
I can also highly recommend the homemade bread (I’m a big fan of the granary loaf), the breakfast menu looked great and I’ll certainly be back to try the superb looking cakes!
A café, exactly as a café should be in my book! I look forward to exploring the menu further and updating.
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Rosie was here before the Brixtonia hype started, and she does really lovely fantastic foods, sandwiches, coffee, (i hear) cakes (I’m not much of a lover).
She’s also a serious brixtonite and worth following on twitter.

Rosie’s has slowly become a Brixton establishment — it’s popularity has grown on word-​of-​mouth, the charm that can only be found at an independant deli/​café, oh and it helps that the eponymous Rosie herself has been appearing in all forms of media of late — be it in the Sunday papers, her own books or magazine columns. Rosie is so fresh right now.
But so are her cakes. And sandwiches. And impressive coffee. I’d love to be able to pop by more than I do, which is mostly limited to the weekends.
She has begun Thursday night supper clubs too.

Such a great little breakfast and lunch spot. I’ve only gotten take-​away ciabattas, which are BOMB, but the rest of the food looks amazing too. All very simple ingredients that go together so well, and their cakes look incredible too.

If you’ve never been to Brixton Market before, go there immediately. Check out the colourful stalls at both the indoor and outdoor market rows. Hell, do it if only to say you walked down Electric Avenue (and then subsequently never get that song out of your head).
And while you’re at it, save room for lunch or coffee & cake at Rosie’s. This is a star of a place — tucked away on the edge of the indoor market, Rosie has been running the place for 6 years now. Locals love her, and it’s easy to see why. She is one friendly chica and makes FROM SCRATCH a delicious dessert every day, as well as the daily lunch specials.
The toasted panini sandwiches on offer are all brilliant and gourmet — Rosie sources some great meats and cheeses in her little café/​deli. And fresh baked bread is available to purchase (along with loads of jars and tins of fun stuff you never thought you needed in your own kitchen).
Expect: a rad assortment of music coming from Rosie’s ipod speakers, delicious coffee smells, a cramped corner table, and lots of friendly hellos. Absolutely vital that you visit.

Small but perfectly formed, Rosie’s is the sort of homely place that makes you feel like you’re eating in someone’s kitchen. The mix of décor is uncontrived and gorgeous — mismatched vintage teapots and cups, postcards, photos of customers, and — last time I visited — giant paper pompoms hanging from the ceiling.
The menu is all hearty sandwiches, salads and soups, cake and coffee, and the deli counter and shelves are packed with tasty treats to make your mouth water as you wait. I recently came for breakfast and had the divine scrambled eggs with chilli jam with good strong black coffee — a delicious start to the day! Everything’s reasonably priced and brilliant quality, so I feel very lucky to live so close by.
As the place is small I can well imagine how packed it gets at busy times, but I try to avoid getting in that situation as I hate queuing!

Based on the reputation and living in Brixton we decided to try this place out on a Saturday lunchtime. Despite being a sunny day and queues stretching for miles in the nearby Franca Manca, Rosies was pretty quiet.
We sat inside where it was sweltering, so once a table became free outside we moved out. We asked the waitress if it was okay to take a couple of the chairs outside so we could sit there which she said was fine. However, as we carried the chairs, the other, seemingly Italian waitress started shouting at us telling us we couldn’t take the chairs. When I explained that the other waitress said it was okay, she said I don’t care, how will my customers sit down inside?. At this point we were considering leaving to help solve her idiotic customer seating problem ensuring she had even more free seats, but decided to sample the food as we’d come this far.
There was no ciabatta bread remaining so we opted for sandwiches /​salads between us. As we waited (quite some time) for our food to arrive, we had an opportunity to take in our surroundings. As the affable waitress rushed to try and prepare the food for everyone, the shouty waitress stood and chatted loudly to a friend ignoring customers. While we sat there, we saw her get two orders wrong, blaming the customer each time for the mistake and saw one woman complain that two other people had been served since she’d sat down, much to shouty waitress’s chagrin. One lady who was in a shopmobility vehicle and couldn’t fit through the front door was told that if she’d come to the counter then maybe she’d have gotten the order right.
When our food eventually arrived, it was brilliant, I have to admit, with the salads looking particularly appetising. The ingredients were fresh and tasted great and what you got was great value for the price you paid.
Rosies itself is a nice little café with great ambient music playing in a homely little spot just off the busy market with the rustic furniture adding to a genuine feeling of a place made out of love. The prices are reasonable for the high quality food you receive, and I could imagine enjoying a nice lunch there.
However, with the possibility of that shouty waitress potentially still working there, and with the competition in the area so strong, I can’t imagine going back there despite living only 300 metres from the place.

Im quite ashamed to have never visited this little place before. Set in Brixton Market just round the corner from Franco Manca the pizza place you can sit in or outside.
The little café is an eclectic miz which makes me feel like i am in my Grandma’s kitchen circa 1950. The deli items and larder puchases are things that you are unlikely to come across elsewhere easily.
The service is very sloooow. There were 2 members of staff (Rosie + 1) but interaction between the two was strained (it was a hot hot day so probably stressed from the weather).
Anyway enough moaning. The food was amazing! had a ciabatta filled with proscutti & sun dried tomatoes (please excuse my spelling)! Was so scrumpcious! even without the cheese tasted great. My friends had salad which was also great.
Will be returning for sure :)

I hadn’t been out in Brixton for ages despite growing up right near there. As a reaction to my childhood nights in Bug Bar/​Mass I have been avoiding it and haunting the EC1 area.
However, I got lured back down by Franco Manca and the orgasmic reviews of their pizzas. After a squalid meal there (another Unilocal another day) my friend who was being our tour guide as he has remained stuck south of the river took us to Rosie’s.
It is exactly what you want. A cute little gentrified lodestone of imported Italian food and artisan goods right in the middle of the peeling and aging concrete mass of Brixton market. They have a nice array of sandwiches and cakes and make it a tempting place to stay despite the smell of fish and decaying rotis in Brixton market.
In some ways it was made even better than the UK hip hop shop which had just opened next door in which the owner was mixing vinyls at mass volume which meant (if sitting outside) you could nod your head away whilst sipping on your pot of tea.

Great little café just off Coldharbour lane inside the Market Row covered market. Delicious sandwiches, home made cakes and great coffee. Usually there’s only one staff member on duty which makes the service unbelievably slow, but as long as you’re happy to wait, they’re always friendly and welcoming. The place attracts an eclectic crowd of young things — and along with the success of Franco Manca around the corner signals the slow trendying of Brixton market. Both these places are welcome additions to the diversity of the market!