Very good but no accessible toilet
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Date of visit: July 2016
I am a disabled person. I have experience of challenges around: accessing toilets and moving around.
I use or have experience of: disabled toilet
Overall Rating
Average
This new café, Green Monkey, 2D Tooting Bec Rd, SW17 8BD, a few doors down from Tooting Bec Station, looks very tempting. There is a big step at the entrance and the café has a folding wheelchair ramp. A major problem is that there is no accessible toilet.
Disabled Access In and Around
Excellent
There is a big step at the entrance, the café has a good metal wheelchair ramp, I was easily able to get in, and there's plenty of room to move about inside. All tables but one are wheelchair friendly, just one table is a bit too low, but still usable in a wheelchair.
Parking & Transport
Average
There are no step-free stations nearby, there is no parking in the area, and buses 155, 219, 355, 249 and 319 pass by very close to the café.
Accessible Toilets
0There is a small toilet at the back reached via the kitchen, but there is no wheelchair-accessible toilet.
Staff
Excellent
Staff were attentive, friendly and helpful. Full marks!
Additional Information
Savouries and cakes are good, the coffee was delicious. This café opened recently after a major refit of the premises. It is extraordinary that a wheelchair-accessible toilet was not installed as part of this refit. Whilst they have (after much prompting) provided a wheelchair ramp to make the café accessible several weeks after their first day of opening, the absence of an accessible toilet means that I can't recommend this place to wheelchair users.
