My good friend Karl had a sudden craving for katsu one day last week. He related that he had enjoyed eating katsu at a restaurant in UP Village and that the taste and presentation was authentic enough that it reminded him of meals he had while also still studying in Japan in the 1990's. Recently, however, the quality of the katsu had deteriorated and it seemed just like any other breaded pork meal you could get in a typical canteen or eatery so he stopped going there. Of course, there were many Japanese-themed restaurants around especially in the malls, which served a variety of katsu meals but many tasted too commercial for him.
I mentioned we could go out and try a restaurant I spotted along Katipunan Avenue. And so we drove to Katipunan and parked at a pay parking facility not far from the restaurant (it didn't have enough parking spaces). We ordered the set meal we saw in the menu for our katsu fix and reminisced about life in Japan as we ate our lunch.
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| Katsu set including two lean breaded pork cutlets (hire katsu) over thinly sliced cabbage, Japanese rice and miso shiru |
Katsu Cafe along Esteban Abada near the corner with Katipunan Ave at the ground floor of the old Burgundy Condominium is a nice little restaurant. The food is good and authentic but this is based only on our one time lunch there. There were many customers at the time we ate there, and the turnover was quite good so I would assume that the food quality was also good and priced competitively. The menu is quite limited but I guess is just right for a small restaurant specializing in katsu. Will we return for another meal? Highly likely but not so regularly considering the traffic along Katipunan around lunchtime.
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