Rosie’s is owned by Rosie, a late 20-something, and her cafe is lovely. She treats you like she’s your grandmother and that there is nothing she’d like better than to rustle up a sandwich for you. I made my first trip to Rosie’s Café after reading about it in The Observer newspaper food supplement. I don’t usually have much reason to trek down to Brixton being an East London girl, nonetheless I thought it worth taking a look as Brixton Market seemed like a strange choice of location for a café such as Rosie’s, well at least I thought so then, I think differently now. Brixton Market is pretty shabby with stalls selling fish and plantains and knock off DVD’s, although I think Rosie has set a trend, the other coffee shops don’t come near to as great as hers though. The walls are pleasingly bright red and green and stacked with all kinds of Italian jams, coffee and jars of stuff. The food is great and the hot chocolate my favourite! She makes all kinds of sandwiches to order (which sell out quick), all on bread baked by the pizza shop Franco Manca next door, and she does great breakfasts too. Even if you just ask for bread and jam, it will be the best bread and best jam. Her ingredients are of such high quality it’s amazing she can make a profit as Rosie’s Café is cheap too. It’s tiny and seems to be the most popular place around to come for lunch and breakfast – totally worth the trip down south.
http://www.rosiesdelicafe.com/cafe.html
Rosie’s Cafe, 14e Market Row, Brixton Market, London, SW9
07807 505397
Monday – Saturday 9.30am-5.30pm
Also located in Brixton Market is Franco Manca a great little pizza place only open for lunch. Reputedly the best pizza in London they have a giant mosaic pizza oven imported from Naples, the great city of pizza itself. There are a few wooden benches, all very tasteful and serving the most amazing authentic Sicilian pizza in the city. It totally doesn’t fit in with its surroundings as you could easily miss it amongst the exotic Afro-Caribbean food stores selling all kinds of tropical fish, bootleg reggae tapes and piles of yams and plantain. For such a modest and understated little place, a lot of energy has gone into the process of making world class pizza, starting with the cheese maker they flew in from Sorrento to train their supplier in the art of mozzarella making. The sourdough base, made with organic Italian flour, is naturally leavened with wild yeast and left to rise for a minimum of 20 hours before being baked. The select menu of six different pizzas are cooked at around 500 deg C (yes 500) for a mere 2 minutes to ensure the flavour is locked in and the base is perfectly crisped without drying out. Franco Manca is a great reason to head south down to Brixton.
Franco Manca, 4, Market Row, Electric Lane, Brixton, London. SW9 8LD.
020 7738 3021
Monday-Saturday 12pm-5pm
I have to mention Ms. Cupcake which is right next door to Rosie’s Cafe, it’s a vegan bakery, that means they don’t use animal products in anything whatsoever! The cakes are just as delicious as their full fat friends but no cholesterol !
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