Juliet's QualityFoods

Lauren Johns and Julian Porter — the couple behind Balham's Milk, disclosed here as the family's other room — run Juliet's on Mitcham Road as Tooting's daytime kitchen: nine to three, every day, no bookings, a small garden out back and a crispy hot-smoked pork-neck pastrami bagel that the food press scores like fine dining because it eats like it. The Instagram following runs to tens of thousands, which for a café that closes at three tells you how the mornings go. Tooting's food reputation was built on its curry houses and markets; places like this are the newer storey on the same foundation.