Foodival Restaurants

Thank you so much to the restaurants, cooks and community groups cooking for this year's Foodival.  Just a reminder of who is doing the cooking that you can try at Sunday's event:

Al Mirage
Pakistani and Indian Restaurant at 215 Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7TG, Tel: 020 8772 4422 www.al-mirage.co.uk

Brixton Peoples Kitchen  
Community kitchen on a bike www.brixtonpk.wordpress.com

The Gorringe Park Pub
Serving locally sourced British cuisine at 29 London Rd, SW17 9HW, Tel: 020 8685 0469 www.thegorringepark.co.uk/

Meza
Lebanese Cuisine at 34 Trinity Road, SW17 7RE (07722 111299) & 70 Mitcham Road, SW17 9NA (07771 333157)

www.mezarestaurant.co.uk

Pooja
Indian Sweets and Savouries at 168-170 Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7ER Tel: 020 8672 4523 www.poojasweets.com

Rick’s Restaurant
Modern British and European Cuisine at 122 Mitcham Road, SW17 9NH Tel: 020 8767 5219 www.ricks-restaurant.co.uk

Route to Juice  
Healthy juice bar at 165 Tooting High Street, SW17 0SY Tel: 0203 5422 979

The Kitchen Table
Serving comforting food for brunch and dinner at 134a Franciscan Rd, London SW17 8DS Tel: 07774 438284 www.kitchentabletooting.wordpress.com

Minestra Supper Club
Local foodies serving authentic Italian food @MinestraSupper Facebook.com/minestrasupper Minestrasupperclub@gmail.com

Thank you to our Sponsors!

At TTT we are very grateful to the sponsors who have stepped in to help us create Foodival 2015. The whole festival has been created with volunteer effort and no external funding, so without the sponsors who have generously given their time, space, contacts, expertise and food we would really struggle to make the event happen!  Have a read to see who they are and what they do.


Pearl Chemist Group is a family owned business based at 159 Mitcham Road, Tooting, London, SW17 9PG, stocking an extensive range of products for all your healthcare and well-being needs. We are very grateful for Pearl’s generous support and contributions for this year’s Foodival. Tel: 020 8672 2157 www.pearlchemist.co.uk / @PearlChemist

Famously described as a ‘mini Borough Market’ in the heart of Balham, Volker & Quinn is a high quality fishmonger and fine food shop run by chef and culinary expert Volker Nissen who has worked at Claridges and various Michelin-star establishments. www.volkerandquinn.co.uk / @VolkerandQuinn

With over 27 years of experience in delivering fresh organic fruit and vegetables right to your doorstep, Abel & Cole are pioneers of ethically sourced food with low food miles. The business has supported Tooting Foodival for many years and has been instrumental in making this event a huge success. www.abelandcole.co.uk / @AbelandCole

Mushkil Aasaan provides a generic model of support to families, young people and the elderly, experiencing crisis, social isolation and many complex unmet needs. Regulated by CQC, Mushkil Aasaan provide a Specialist Domiciliary Care Service to more than 120 families. Many thanks to Naseem Aboobaker and Mushkil Aasaan for their continued support of TTT! Tel: 020 8672 6581 Tel/Fax: 020 682 3054 E-mail: mushkilaasaan@btconnect.com

Running Order Foodival 2015

The running order for this year's Tooting Foodival will be:
 
Saturday 12th September 12-4pm
Mushkil Aasaan, 222 Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7EW
• Vegetable & Fruit Collection
• Vegetable Photos
• Cooking Demos with Volker & Quinn
• Ugly Vegetables Competition Entries Accepted
• Produce delivered to Restaurants & entrants to Top Tooting Cook

Sunday 13th September 12-5pm
Samaj Hall, 26b Tooting High Street, SW17 0RG
On the Stage ...
12.15 Dermot Jones
13.00 Slim Estrada
13.45 Balham Ukulele Society
14.00 fanSHEN & Giant Pea
14.30 Ugly Veg Parade & Winner
14.45 Amy Fitz Doyley
15.15 TTC Winners Announced
15.45 The Renegades

Throughout the afternoon home grown vegetarian food will be served, cooked up by Rick’s Restaurant, Minestra Supper Club, The Gorringe Park Pub, Meza, Kitchen Table, Pooja, Al Mirage, Route to Juice & Brixton People's Kitchen.

For more information on this weekend's festival check out the Foodival 2015 booklet.

Cook up a dish to be crowned Top Tooting Cook!

Win tasty prizes by cooking a dish made with locally grown produce and you could also be crowned Tooting's Top Cook!

Are you a budding chef? Do you fancy cooking a delicious low-food miles vegetarian dish?

Enter the Top Tooting Cook competition and you could win dinner for two at The Little Taperia or a £50 food voucher for the Wheatsheaf!

 

All you need to do is:

• Cook one dish made with some locally grown produce
• Deliver it to Foodival's Festival day at Samaj Hall by 1.30pm for judging

And that's it! Anything goes... you could bake, cook, assemble, pickle, or blend your dish. As long as it's vegetarian and some of the ingredients are locally grown, you can enter.

Don't worry if you don't grow any produce. Pop into Foodival's Donation Day on Saturday 12th September (1pm-4pm) at Mushkil Aasaan, 220-222 Upper Tooting Road and choose some locally grown ingredients to cook with.

Courgette fritters with Beetroot hummous, Tamworth Farm allotments

Rhubarb muffins & raspberry cakes, Tamworth Farm allotments

Tomato & spinach quiche, Tamworth Farm allotments

But what does it take to win?

• The judges will be a local panel of cooks and foodies
• 50% of marks for how local the dish is
• 50% of marks for taste

Last year's winning Top Tooting Cook entry

Enter today!

Simply email transitiontowntooting@gmail.comtransitiontowntooting@gmail.com with Top Tooting Cook in the subject line and we'll give you more details and can set aside ingredients you might want to use.

Or enter on the day by bringing your dish for 1.30pm on Sunday, 13th September.

Good luck everyone!

Entertainment Line Up Announced

Dermot Jones

We are very happy to announce the final entertainment line up for this year's Foodival including exciting perfomers both familiar and new to the event.

Opening the show on Sunday, Dermot Jones will be performing some self-scrawled, lyrically vivid songs, plus a range of acoustic instrumental covers from David Bowie to Scott Joplin. www.soundcloud.com/dermosongs / @DermotTJones

Slim Estrada

Next up, Slim Estrada, bluesman extraordinaire, takes a break from the deep south to be joined by Pablo X, on guitars, banjos and harmonica and Washboard Bob on backing vocals, congas and percussion. www.slim-estrada.com

Balham Ukulele Society

Amy Fitz-Doyley

Balham Ukulele Society is a teaching workshop, uke jam and social at the Balham Bowls Club every other Sunday night. They’ll be playing an eclectic mix of ukulele-infused covers of popular songs and are proud to have been rated as one of the top 100 ukulele societies in Balham. www.facebook.com/groups/balhamukesoc / @BalhamUkeSoc
 
Amy Fitz-Doyley is a local singer, song-writer, innovator and tea drinker! Alternative Jazz is Amy’s speciality and her voice is her main instrument. She’ll be performing all original material at Foodival 2015. www.soundcloud.com/amyfitzdoyley / @AmyFitzDoyley

The Renegades

The Renegades are 40-something chirpy London chappies embracing their mid-life crises by playing a selection of covers of rock classics from the 1950s to the present day.  They hope you'll enjoy watching them roll back the years. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVrzi9VB0CehMn8iL6NydxQ

 
fanSHEN return to Foodival as part of their Field Day series, this time incorporating some making and carnival involving a Giant Pea!  

fanSHEN are a Wandsworth based professional theatre company who use theatre to help people imagine what they haven’t thought of yet and their work promotes ideas of environmental, social and financial sustain-agility embedding these ideas in the making process www.fanshen.org.uk / @fanshentheatre

Peas Come to Meet & Make on Weds

Hoping lots of you can apPEAse TTT and join in Jeni's Meet & Make on Wednesday. She is very PlEAsed with the poster she has designed.  Do you have experience making 

GIANT PEAS?  

This is not necessary.  Can you paint a bucket?  Or draw a sign?  We need high level experience for this ... such as the ability to apply paint to objects or write in a West Germanic Indo-Eurpoean language commonly used all over the world ... (yes English).  PEAs just turn up and join in!

Help us decorate Foodival! What could it pea?

What's made of two PEAfect circles and bright green?

Come to SMART Meet & Make at Sprout next Wednesday evening and help us paper maché one of the centre-PEAces of Foodival's Festival Day! Led by Jeni Walker, you can also help to make signs and posters for the weekend.

The session is open to all ages and abilities. Everyone is welcome and it's free to attend!

SMART Meet & Make

"A Special Foodival PrePEAration Session"

Wednesday, 9th September 

6.30pm - 8.30pm 

at 

Sprout Arts

74 Moyser Road, Furzedown, Tooting, SW16 6SQ

More making for Foodival at fanSHEN's final Field Day

Join the final Field Day of 2015 for some Foodival fun. Meet at Tooting Market at midday to make and decorate percussion instruments and hats and then join the carnival parade to Foodival for 2pm.

Find out more on fanSHEN's blog.

BYO

Today we are launching our Bring Your Own (BYO) campaign for Foodival 2015.  In an effort to reduce our environmental footprint and waste caused by the event, we ask you to BYO plate and cutlery to Samaj Hall on Sunday September 13th.  It seems appropriate on the day we hear that 90% of seabirds have plastic in their guts, a horrible example of human waste culture.  We will have biodegradeable alternatives for purchase on the day, but would love to see as many of you as possible BYO!  For more on waste, plastics & fossil fuels see a longer post on the TTT main blog.

Clapham Magazine Article

Great to get featured in one of our local magazines, thank you "The Clapham". Will anyone be able to rival this splendid haul from one of our well known local residents this year?!

Are you growing for the Foodival?  #seedtofeast

Who's cooking for Foodival?

The Foodival team have been busy bees this week, signing up more fantastic cooking establishments to deliver delicious dishes to you on Festival Day.

Already signed up (see previous post for details):

• Al Mirage
• Meza
• Pooja
• Rick's
• The Kitchen Table

 And newly signed up this week:

Brixton People's Kitchen is a community kitchen, who sometimes cook on a bicycle! Working with the local community, they deliver hot nutritious meals and cooking lessons to young people and adults alike. They'll be cooking up a surprise medley for us. We can't wait!

Route to Juice are a welcome addition to Tooting's High Street this year. They'll be whizzing together fresh, power-packed, nutrient rich juices and smoothies on the day. So if you've got fruit to donate - you know where it'll be going!


We have more restaurants, cooks, entertainment and announcements to come, so stay tuned, and add the dates to your diary:

Saturday 12th September

Mushkil Aasaan, 222 Tooting High Street, 12-4pm

• Donate your locally grown fruit, vegetables and herbs
• Watch cooking demonstrations
• Enter the Ugly Vegetable competition

Sunday 13th September

Samaj Hall, 26b Tooting High Street, 12-5pm

• Join the giant pea parade
• Eat delicious food
• Enjoy live entertainment
• Meet local producers
• Have fun!