London Putney Restaurant Guide

This Putney institution “celebrated its 25th anniversary with a great party last summer – they must be getting something right!”. Even if “the menu can sometimes be a bit samey”, the “authentic Goan/Indian food” is “still exceptional” and the service “so friendly”. “I suspect Ma Goa will still be going in 20 years’ time”.

“Lovely wood-fired pizzas and imaginative salads” make this “friendly cycle-themed coffee shop” in Putney (and its Balham sibling) a “great place for brunch on the way back from a cycle round Richmond Park”. Early rouleurs will find breakfast from 7.30am, and there’s “ample bike parking”.

“Teeming with Japanese customers and Putney locals in the know”, this “great little sushi bar”, presided over by its “eagle-eyed chef/owner” (“sit up at the sushi bar to see the main man calmly in action”) is “just like being in Tokyo”. Results are “fabulous”: there are “not many places in London where the fish on the sushi is actually thicker than the rice!”. Another indie Japanese, Cho-San (RIP) was on the same site, and the “rather tired” interior either “works against it” or adds authenticity, depending on your viewpoint.

Billed as England’s only Kashmiri specialist, this Putney four-year-old offers something “genuinely different from the standard Indian fare” – and it’s “always delicious”. Chef Rohit Razdan and his wife Shweta have previously had restaurants in New Delhi and Singapore.

This yearling all-day brasserie near East Putney tube “has succeeded where several other restaurants have failed”, by following a formula of “good food and value for money”. “It knocks the socks off the Bill’s or Brew and their wannabes”.

“The best pizza in the area” – “thin, very tasty” and in “large” portions – wins fans for this “friendly” family-owned trio that has built a solid following in Fulham and Putney over two decades. SW15 is primarily take-out and delivery (but has some outside seating).

This Putney Heath pub has been a Brunning & Price pub since 2019.

2018 Review: A huge outside area across the road, with picnic tables on Putney Common (where you can order food), is a hard-to-beat summer feature of this “great South London gastropub”, which serves very dependable scoff to all-and-sundry (including dog-lovers).