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A chicken katsu dish with spring onions at Kanji

Kanji

What do you get when you mix chicken katsu and incredible sauces?

Kanji brings traditional katsu curry to our food market, along with delicious variations including honey butter katsu, BBQ katsu and katsu teriyaki.

For the uninitiated, katsu is like a Japanese chicken schnitzel, or for the really, really uninitiated, like a really big, very delicious chicken nugget. At Kanji, the chicken katsu is then drizzled with one of owner Lee’s truly delicious sauces – and topped with crispy onion bits, spring onion and salad, if you want it, and served with steamed rice.

There are also gyoza and a delicious udon soup on the menu, with vegetarian options available.

Kanji’s must try dish

Sweet and spicy katsu, or katsu teriyaki

Location

Southbank Centre Square, Belvedere Road

Contact

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Food in a circular takeaway container including meat and rice drizzled with a white sauce
Martha Stone
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Tasting samples on toothpicks in a metal container offered from a market stall
Arnaud Mbaki
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Photo of a plate of teriyaki chicken katsu from Kanji at Southbank Centre Food Market
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Arnaud Mbaki
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For your visit

Southbank Centre Food Market Southbank Centre

Friday, 12 noon – 9pm
Saturday, 11am – 9pm
Sunday, 12 noon – 6pm

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Plan your visit

Southbank Centre Food Market is located on Southbank Centre Square, on the Belvedere Road side of our Royal Festival Hall.

Getting here

Our address is Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.

The nearest tube stations to us are Waterloo and Embankment; Waterloo is also the nearest train station. And more than 20 different London bus routes pass within 500 metres of our venues.  More information on getting here by rail, road or river is available on our Getting here page.

Cash or card

Though some of our food market vendors accept cash many no longer do, so be prepared to pay with either cash or card to avoid disappointment.

Access

We’re working hard to remove barriers, so that our facilities and events can be accessible to as many people as possible.

All help points, toilets, performance and exhibition spaces at the Southbank Centre are accessible to all, as are the cafes, bars and restaurants. We also have excellent public transport links with step-free access. 

All information about booking wheelchair spaces, step-free access, blue badge parking, access maps and guides and other help available whilst you’re here, including details about our Access Scheme, can be found on our Access page.