The queen of the pop-up kicks off a two-month residency this weekend, with cocktails by Romeo Lane’s founder and a “controversial” French dish on the menu.

For the next two months, Fitzroy’s hottest restaurant table is set to be at Little Rose , a name you won’t know yet but soon will. Chef Rosheen Kaul and cocktail king Joe Jones have teamed up to turn the old Alta Trattoria site into a pop-up “Chinoiserie neo-bistro”, opening tomorrow, May 9.

At Little Rose, Joe Jones is on drinks and Rosheen Kaul is cooking French-meets-Chinese. Arianna Leggiero

What that means is “classical French cuisine seen through a Chinese and broader Asian lens”, according to Kaul.…