The earliest review we have is from 4 Aug 2026, less than four months ago.
Fewer than 5 Canberra cafes have it, or the first review we have is under 120 days old. It also covers anything on a small share of cafes that is holding steady.
The stages run Emerging, Rising, Peaking, Mainstream, Fading. A trend can skip a stage or move back.
A crumbed, fried pork or chicken cutlet with shredded cabbage and tonkatsu sauce in soft crustless white bread.
2 Canberra cafes have it on their menus.
It's emerging: early days yet.
Canberra's figures come from Google reviews and cafe menus (223 Canberra cafes with a review or menu in the last 90 days). We don't read Canberra cafes' posts yet, so this is a small sample and a drink shows up here later than it would in posts.
Canberra searches a month
50 searches, the busiest month.
First Canberra review in our data.
Tap a number for what changed then.
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Cafe menus listing it now, Canberra.
2 cafe menus
We started reading cafe menus in late 2026. Cafes adding and dropping it each month show here once the first whole month of menu reads is in.
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
7suburbs with cafes that have it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Canberra cafes with a customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
4 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Katsu sando is on 2 Canberra cafe menus and has been seen at cafes in 7 Canberra suburbs.
A crumbed, fried pork or chicken cutlet with shredded cabbage and tonkatsu sauce in soft crustless white bread. A typical katsu sando, drawn from Canberra cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with milk bread, top (the top slice), tonkatsu sauce (thick, sweet and tangy, over the cutlet), pork katsu (a pork cutlet in panko crumbs, fried; some use chicken), shredded cabbage (finely shredded, raw), kewpie mayo (spread on the bread) and milk bread, bottom (thick, soft and white, the crusts cut off). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical plate, not one cafe's recipe. In all our data to 15 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 5 Canberra cafes across 7 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 2 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu.
It is on 2 Canberra cafe menus right now, including The Glass House Cafe in Canberra and The Glass House Cafe in Greenway. The "Where to get one" list on this page has every one, with the price where the menu gives one, links to the menu or post, and directions. Menus change, so check with the cafe before you go.
Canberra cafes also sell katsu sando as "katsu sandwich". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafe menus and Google reviews.
It is on a bigger share of Hobart cafes: 2.4% against Canberra's 0.9%, over the last 90 days.
It is early days. The Froth rates katsu sando as Emerging as of 15 Nov 2026: the earliest review we have is from 4 Aug 2026, less than four months ago. In the 90 days to 15 Nov 2026, 0.9% of the Canberra cafes we see well (a current menu in that time) had it. Canberra searches for it were down 25% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
There were 30 searches for katsu sando in Canberra in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 20 searches (Jan 2026) to 50 (Feb 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Canberra.
The earliest Canberra customer review about katsu sando that The Froth has is from 4 Aug 2026. We only see what we collect, so that is when we first saw it, not when it started: it may have been sold earlier, here or elsewhere.
A cafe counts for katsu sando from the first Google review we found that mentions it, and while it is on the cafe's current menu. Shares are of the cafes we see well: those with a current menu in the same 90 days, a chain counting once. A change compares the same cafes in the last 90 days with the 90 before, only among cafes we have followed through both, so newly added cafes never look like growth. The 90 days end on the latest day with new reviews or menus (15 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Canberra with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.