Only 3 cafes have it so far.
Fewer than 5 Hobart 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.
It's emerging: early days yet.
Hobart's figures come from Google reviews and cafe menus (124 Hobart cafes with a review or menu in the last 90 days). We don't read Hobart cafes' posts yet, so this is a small sample and a drink shows up here later than it would in posts.
Hobart searches a month
50 searches, the busiest month.
First Hobart 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, Hobart.
1 cafe menu
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.
3suburbs with cafes that have it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Hobart cafes with a customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
2 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Data updated 15 Nov 2026.
Too early to quote: 3 cafes have had it so far. A quote will appear here once 5 cafes have.
A crumbed, fried pork or chicken cutlet with shredded cabbage and tonkatsu sauce in soft crustless white bread. A typical katsu sando, drawn from Hobart 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 3 Hobart cafes across 3 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 1 in "Where to get one" are the cafe with it on its current menu.
It is on 1 Hobart cafe menu right now, including Hobart Coffee Roasters in Hobart. 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.
There were 30 searches for katsu sando in Hobart in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 10 searches (Apr 2025) to 50 (Jun 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Hobart.
Of the cities The Froth reads, Hobart has it at the biggest share of cafes: 2.4% of Hobart cafes in the last 90 days, against 1.6% in Adelaide and 1.5% in Gold Coast.
The earliest Hobart customer review about katsu sando that The Froth has is from 5 Oct 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 Hobart with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.