Bay Area pop-ups · Restaurant coming soon

The new boss of katsu is in town!

Crispy, juicy Japanese katsu, dry-brined overnight and fried fresh to order. Chicken, pork, or tofu. Your call.

Where's the next pop-up?See the menu

Chicken katsu bento box with rice, cabbage, potato salad and cucumber salad

Fried to order!

The Kingpin Katsu team in front of their booth at Faction Brewing

From booth → restaurant

Kickstarter · live now

Help us open our first restaurant!

We're raising $25,000 to turn our pop-up booth into a real home: a cozy, Kyoto-street-style katsu shop in the Bay Area. It's all or nothing: if we don't hit the goal by Monday, November 16, 2026, we get nothing.

Depending on tier, backers get opening meal credits, stickers, merch, and early tastings.

Back this project ↗Monday, November 16, 2026 is the last day to pledge and help us hit our goal.

Pop-ups coming up!

We're lining up our next night markets, breweries, and block parties. Dates and locations drop on Instagram first, so follow along and don't miss the fryer.

Follow @kingpin.katsu ↗

Catering

We cater the whole Bay Area.

Office lunches, birthdays, school fundraisers, brewery takeovers. We'll deliver trays of bento, or roll up with the whole booth and fry everything fresh on site.

Reach out for a quote.

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How catering works →

Kingpin Katsu frying at an evening pop-up — We bring the fryers.

The Kingpin Katsu family and crew smiling at the booth — The Kingpin crew

Our story

Family-run.
Katsu-obsessed.

We fell for katsu on a trip across Asia, studied it in Japan, and came home to the Bay to do it right: cutlets dry-brined overnight, crusted in Japanese panko, and sides made by hand every day.

Read our story