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Apollo Banana Leaf

Sri Lankan; South Indian · Tooting

190 Tooting High Street, SW17 0SF

Budget £20 · typically ~£20 pp·1 min walk

Location

88Score
LocalBite score from taste, value, discovery, authenticity, and local confidence — not Google stars.

Taste

8.9

How good the cooking actually is.

Value

9.3

What you get for the money.

Discovery

8.0

How easy it is to stumble on, versus already famous.

Authenticity

9.2

How true it is to the cuisine — not a diluted version.

Local confidence

8.6

Whether locals who care about food actually go.
Hidden gemEasy to walk past. Locals and people who care about food already know it.

Apollo Banana Leaf is an independent Sri Lankan room in Tooting that still reads as a find — not on the tourist circuit, and the kind of place a local would send you.

Why we recommend

Tooting High Street Sri Lankan/South Indian that locals treat as infrastructure, not a treat. Fierce flavours, BYOB, and a bill that still looks like south London rather than Zone 1.

  • Why locals go

    Tooting High Street Sri Lankan/South Indian that locals treat as infrastructure, not a treat

  • Why locals go

    Fierce flavours, BYOB, and a bill that still looks like south London rather than Zone 1

What to order

  • Dosa

    Our pick

    A curator staple at Apollo Banana Leaf — the dish we'd send a first-timer toward.

  • Sri Lankan curry

    Our pick

    Tooting High Street Sri Lankan/South Indian that locals treat as infrastructure, not a treat.

  • Seafood specials

    Our pick

    A curator staple at Apollo Banana Leaf — the dish we'd send a first-timer toward.

Good for

Exceptional valueNew cuisineSomething amazing

Practical notes

BYOB. Casual. Book or off-peak — it fills.

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