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Apollo Banana Leaf

A Tooting restaurant serving Jaffna-style Sri Lankan and South Indian food in a bring-your-own-bottle dining room with a technicolour waterfall mural and disco lighting.

  • Food
  • Price: ££ · Mid-range
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Apollo Banana Leaf, a Tooting restaurant
Photo: bob walker, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr

Local tip

It is BYOB and you can book a table on its website. Open Monday to Thursday evenings from 5.30pm, and Friday to Sunday for lunch (noon-3.30pm) and dinner from 5.30pm. Take the chilli icons on the menu seriously: even one means real heat.

Famous dishes

  • Sambar vadai
  • Mutton roll
  • Chicken pakoda
  • Crab masala

Finding it

Address
190 Tooting High Street, London SW17 0SF
Nearest station
Tooting Broadway (Tube), 476 m away

Details change, so check with the place before you set off.

More places nearby

  • Dosa n ChutnyFood · 450 m awayA no-frills South Indian and Sri Lankan spot on Tooting High Street specializing in dosas, idli and vada at bargain prices.
  • Tooting MarketMarket · 700 m awayA covered 1930s market off Tooting High Street lined with tailors, fabric stalls and small kitchens serving Caribbean, Mauritian, Portuguese and more, alongside newer coffee and gin makers.
  • Tooting Bec LidoAdventure · 2.5 km awayThe UK's largest freshwater outdoor pool by surface area, 100 yards long with bright red, yellow and green changing cabins, on the edge of Tooting Bec Common.
  • Morden Hall ParkPark · 2.7 km awayA 125-acre National Trust park, a former deer park and snuff-mill estate on the River Wandle, with meadows, wetlands, a rose garden and two restored watermills.

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