Tota Restaurant

TOTA | The Restaurant in Tooting Broadway : London

http://www.tota-restaurant.co.uk

Review: Brunch at Tota Restaurant, Tooting, Food Goblin

Since becoming a late twenties something, I've stepped up my brunch game and will enjoy delicious eggs and SO much avocado almost every weekend.

This latter point is a huge draw – the partner is a prolific coffee slurper and we'll easily knock up £10 in coffee spend at other brunch places where they charge by the cup.

The brunch menu is relatively large with all the usual suspects; fry ups, pancakes, waffles, french toast and all the varieties of eggs benedict you could want!

The menu isn't experimental and doesn't push breakfast boundaries (unlike said trendy neighbours) but is solid and if you're after simply a jolly good brunch, it's the place to go.

If I was asked to sell Tota even more, I'd mention that when I returned from 3 weeks in Brazil where the closest I came to a fried egg was sunbathing topless on Copacobana, Tota was the first place I came to eat.

Tota, Tooting • The Cook Report

Tota is a cozy restaurant in Tooting Broadway serving a mix of classic comfort food and exciting new flavours with a great, laid back atmosphere.

On the Saturday my parents and my other sister came to London and we all went out for a delicious dinner in Tooting, where my sister lives, at Tota.

This was a 20oz Cote de Boeuf with watercress, roast shallots and portobello mushrooms.

Cooked medium rare, topped with soft roasted cherry tomatoes and sweet shallots, little pockets of herbs and watercress nestled in the meat.

Tota is a great destination in Tooting Broadway with tasty food and a comfortable, relaxed atmosphere.

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This pretty much defines Tota Restaurant in Tooting, right in the heart of Tooting Broadway.

Whatever time of day or night, TOTA aims to deliver food to soothe the soul with comforting classics, or to tantalise the tastebuds with robust flavours.

After 30 years of cooking around the world, chef Gary Doherty is bringing his eclectic style of cooking to Tooting – forget the word fusion – this is a kaleidoscope of food.

By day, Tota is a relaxing retreat from the hustle of the High Street, serving seductive sandwiches, fab brunch and crunchy salads to set your mouth watering, all washed down with tip top coffee, artisan beers and an affordable wine list.

Food endowed with flavour and balance, quirky specials that take full advantage of seasonality and favourite classics.

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People go wild for the baked eggs, which come with a sweet tomato and pepper ragout, a dollop of yoghurt and merguez sausage on toast.

Romeo's does a full fry-up with eggs cooked how you like them, bacon, GF sausages, mushrooms, tomato, beans and home-baked GF toast.

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• 32-34 Upper Tooting Road, spicevillage.co.uk Ambala is one of the most popular Asian sweet shops in Tooting – during religious festivals queues of people, stocking up on boxes of mithai (Asian sweets), snake out of the door.

• 48 Upper Tooting Road, ambalafoods.com Another hugely popular sweet emporium, the stricly-vegetarian Pooja, has been open for 18 years and is run by a Muslim and a Hindu.

Sadiq recommends: chana chaat • 168-170 Upper Tooting Road, poojasweets.com A Tooting institution, Mirch Masala has previously made the final of the Tiffin Cup, the Westminster competition where MPs nominate the best south Asian restaurant on their patch.

• 1 Tooting High Street, long-standing south Asian favourite, Radha Krisha Bhavan, just south of Tooting Broadway tube, opened in 1999, and according to Sadiq is one of Tooting’s friendliest: “The staff are brilliant”, he says.

• 86 Tooting High Street, tootingsouthindian.co.uk The only non-Pakistani restaurant on the list, Tota was the first of the new breed of modern bars and restaurants to open in Tooting.

Tota | Restaurants in Tooting, London

Although the Antic group, with their three bars on Mitcham Road, appear to have cornered the market in shabby chic for aspirational Tooting folk, there’s still plenty of room for other well-priced, mid-range places to eat.

Tota has a contemporary design that looks like something out of a Livingetc shoot, with a menu that shifts according to the time of day: it serves breakfasts, light lunches, and a dinner menu with equal conviction.

The dinner menu showcases grill dishes, such as slow-smoked pork ribs; ours were good, but served lukewarm.

Other details were good: crisp, dry fries, and pert spring greens.

Tota is a sharp-looking place, and once the front-of-house staff smiles don’t feel quite so forced, this could give places like Antelope some competition.