Actually the weather report is fake news. It is supposed to be a fine day but starts grey and slowly improves throughout the day. That hardly makes it great but by comparison to what we have seen it is superb. We start the day by going out for brekkie at a local pub.
Great messages from a wine shop
We decide on the Blackbird PubThe Pub is famous for its piesWaiting for BrekkieMy Sausage RollSmoked salmon with the Egss Benedict quite niggardlyGreat view of the pub out the windowThe Blackbird as we leaveSince the weather is OK we decide to look around the private park across the way
Julie smelling the rosesJulie smelling the rosesJulie took a number of photos of the flowers in the private garden
A small tree fern
After leaving the garden and returning to the apartment, Julie prances out again and takes some more food shots.
What does the title of this Post mean? Is it rooty, toot, toot we’re the boys in the Boy Scout troop? No, Tooting is actually a suburb in South London and we are going on a tour of Indian foods in Tooting that Julie found on Airbnb. So we take the tube to Tooting Broadway to meet our guide Aidan at 4:00.
The Cafe where we are to meet AidanJulie finds Aidan at the back to the cafeWe are joined by 4 other guests and go to our first placeAidan orders several vegetarian dishesWe are a diverse group with 2 Americans, two Australina, a German, a Hong Konger and Aidan an Anglo-IndianMore vegie dishes including the famous Dhosa
We then depart and stop by a couple of fruit shops that have some unusual fruits which are commonly used in Indian cooking.
We then enter a local marketIts JEJ in front of us. Joshua, Edmund and JulieThese guys need a bit more to themselvesNice bar with snacksGreat name, good propietor who explained a lot that was going onThe GroupOf all the gin joints in the world …
We walk for quite a while through two markets and a number of shops. We end up at a eating place that opened as a very small shop a while ago and was very popular, grew and has now expanded here.
Aidan’s Current FavouriteVarious CurriesYukkie looking sweet thing in the windowand at the tableSalad – Julie’s favouriteKofteVarious chutneysVarious sidesPotato Curry. The dish in front was lamb ribs which should have been my favourite for the day
My problem is that with all the walking I am totally wiped out by the time we got there. Some nice meat dishes and sambals but I wasn’t up to it.
A final tea – horrific amounts of sugar
One thing I will say about this place is that it has the cleanest toilets I have seen for a long time in public places.
We then move to a Sweets shopYukMore YukOur booty – logged in with a fruit shop nearbyYes, we have no MangoesA sweet spot along the wayOur exit point
After boarding the Tooting Bec train we make our way back home. Way too much food today but liquid grapes were required and in demand. A good day, a huge one tomorrow.
great photos! what a nice afternoon that was 🙂