Rosie Birkett

Rosie Birkett has written 12 posts for The London Word

Rosie Birkett, the London Word's assistant food and booze editor, is a freelance food journalist with a mighty penchant for cheese. Her far-flung foodie highlights so far include dining at The John Dory in New York, hitting Rungis Market with Pierre Koffman and eating oysters off the beach in Jersey. Closer to home she loves nothing more than a good Vietnamese on the Kingsland Road and a pizza at Franko Manca. Having spent every penny she earns sampling the delights of London's vibrant food scene she can mostly be found at home, cooking up the contents of her kitchen cupboards in a calico mumu.

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The Compass, Islington

By Rosie Birkett ⋅ August 11, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

There isn’t a shortage of places to eat in Angel…

Sexy Molton House

By Rosie Birkett ⋅ January 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Nick Valentine, co-founder of London hotspot the Cuckoo Club, has spent upwards of £2.5 million on transforming a five-storey Georgian townhouse in London’s South Molton Street into Molton House. And it shows.

Get Your Oyster Fix at St Pancras Grand

By Rosie Birkett ⋅ January 12, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Call me a lush, (and, given the current climate you’ve got every right to) but I can’t think of a better way to spend a tenner than on half a dozen fresh oysters. And I think I’ve found my new favourite place to do it.

The Phoenix Chelsea: Quality Pub Fare

By Rosie Birkett ⋅ December 23, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The Phoenix is a very nice pub, down a very nice street in Chelsea. On the night we visit, it seems like it’s doing very well, as various festive gatherings crack open the fizz and start bar tabs. There’s a lot of good cheer in the cosy, softly lit bar area, and a lot of [...]

The Underground Rebel Bingo Club

By Rosie Birkett ⋅ December 19, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

We had some trouble finding the Underground Rebel Bingo Club. ‘What the bejesus is Rebel Underground Bingo?’ I hear you squawk. Well read on my friends, and prepare to discover one of London’s best kept secrets.

Avalon in Clapham South

By Rosie Birkett ⋅ December 14, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The Avalon is exactly what Clapham South has been waiting for: a huge, sprawling gastropub with unabashedly bourgeois intentions. A place where afternoon and evening drinking in the pub’s sizeable, Victorian-styled bar will undoubtedly spill over into the Bibendum-esque dining room for food. Step inside the new venture from Renaissance pubs, and you enter a [...]

Mahiki Misses the Point

By Rosie Birkett ⋅ November 21, 2008 ⋅ 3 comments

A childhood spent flitting from palace to stately home, followed by a few years at Eton and a stint in the army; the Royal boys don’t exactly get out much, and when they do, they go to Mahiki. Why? Because it’s exactly the kind of place someone with very little understanding of what’s actually new, [...]

The Eagle Has Landed…in Shepherd’s Bush

By Rosie Birkett ⋅ November 3, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

It hasn’t been a good year for pubs. Soaring food and fuel prices and the increasing number of folks drinking at home to save money during the financial meltdown have all been enough to ensure that on average, five pubs are closing a day. It’s a bleak statistic, but one that I don’t think Geronimo [...]

Inamo Soho: Futuristic Dining

By Rosie Birkett ⋅ September 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Entering Inamo, tucked away as it is on a side street in Soho, is like stepping into a futuristic dining portal – a vision of what eating out will be like in the year 3000, when (if you’ll humour my crude technological predictions) our children’s children’s children’s children will be using microchip mobile phones and [...]

Field Day 2008 – Victoria Park

By Rosie Birkett ⋅ August 12, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Field Day was a wet, but nonetheless joyous affair. Before I begin with my report on the day, and my praise for what proved to be some excellent musical moments, I first need to get a couple of things off my chest…