Taketei Kanoya Honten — Restaurant in Kanoya

Top quality tonkatsu restaurant. Very well patronized by local community who both eat in and takeout. Tried lean and fatter cuts of pork and they were both good with rich and yet mild flavor. The crust of the tonkatsu was a highlight with a crustier deep fry that was full flavored without any trace of greasiness. Highlight was the open kitchen where patrons seated at the counter could see the team at work preparing and deep frying the cutlets. Been to many tonkatsu restaurants and this is the first I've been to with the whole...

Tonkatsu とんかつ竹亭 Taketei in Kanoya City has been serving up Kagoshima black pork cutlets for more than 50 years.

The volume is a lot and everything was less than 1000 yen! Very tasty and highly recommended if you want to experience a very unique Kagoshima dining experience. Also, bonus points for the cabbage station guy and for the tonkatsu sauce in the bamboo container, and since "Take" means bamboo, it really...

The menchi is to die for, its seriously juicy and delicious. Loved it so much. The rosu was good too, but the menchi was phenomenally umami-rich goodness.

There was a 20minute wait. You go into the shop to get a buzzer and your name taken down. Once the buzzer goes off, you get seated at the tatami tables or counter.

The cost performance of this place is unreal too, we paid 2000yen and it was...