Rosa's started out as a street stall on Brick Lane by a husband-and-wife team, Alex and Saiphin Moore, in 2006. By the summer of 2008, they had bought an old caff on Hanbury Street, with the help of friends, families, and credit cards. They kept the name Rosa’s as a nod to English tradition and heritage (and also because they didn’t have the money to change the sign!), and so the very first ‘Rosa’s Thai Cafe’ was born.