Welcome to London x London’s Tooting Guide: your guide to the best bars, restaurants and things to do in this South London neighbourhood.
Tooting sits in the London Borough of Wandsworth, south of Balham and Tooting Bec Common, with Streatham and Colliers Wood close by.
Tooting’s earliest mention comes from the Domesday Book in 1086, but the neighbourhood it’s grown into flies well under most visitors’ radar.
That’s their loss: this is home to the oldest open-air swimming pool in the UK and a food market that could rival any in central London.
Present-day Tooting is a genuinely bountiful place, its thriving scene of authentic Indian food alone worth the trip south. Add in independent shops and a proper community feel, and it’s easy to see why locals are in no rush to see it discovered.
South London, under-the-radar, brilliant food scene
