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Wallet-friendly dosas and BYO Japanese rub shoulders with traditional pubs and innovative pop-ups
Tooting's mid-gentrification landscape is looking fantastic, with all those old-school curry houses continuing to give London a good name for diversity, neighbourhood pubs competing to deal the finest Sunday lunch, ambitious newcomers doing their seasonal/locavore thing — even an independent café, trading pluckily alongside the inevitable rash of chains. No longer Clapham's even milder cousin, SW17 is trendy now, so expect hurly burly and queues on Friday nights.