Black sesame in Canberra
Fading
The few searches for it in Canberra are under half their 12-month high, and cafes are not picking it up: too few of the same cafes have it to read a change (1, against none in the 90 days before).
No cafe had it in the last 90 days, or the number of the same cafes with it fell by a quarter or more on the 90 days before (from at least 10 cafes) while searches did not rise, or searches are under half their 12-month high and cafes are not picking it up.
The stages run Emerging, Rising, Peaking, Mainstream, Fading. A trend can skip a stage or move back.
Roasted black sesame ground to a paste and stirred into lattes and matcha: nutty, toasty and a little bitter, and it turns the drink grey.
Where to get black sesame in Canberra
2 Canberra cafes: 1 on its menu, 1 from posts.
2 cafes, A to Z
- Penny University CafeUnverifiedPrice not on the menu
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
- Ujin Matcha House | 宇仁茶館$13
Canberra cafes with Black sesame on their menus or in their posts.
Is black sesame still growing in Canberra?
Not at the moment: it's fading.
About Canberra's figures
Canberra's figures come from Google reviews and cafe menus (223 Canberra cafes with a review or menu in the last 90 days). We don't read Canberra cafes' posts yet, so this is a small sample and a drink shows up here later than it would in posts.
How Canberra compares
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
On menus
Cafe menus listing it now, Canberra.
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.
How black sesame spread across Canberra
2suburbs with cafes that have it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Canberra cafes with a customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
Black sesame Canberra FAQs
Data updated 15 Nov 2026.
Too early to quote: 2 cafes have had it so far. A quote will appear here once 5 cafes have.
What is black sesame?
Roasted black sesame ground to a paste and stirred into lattes and matcha: nutty, toasty and a little bitter, and it turns the drink grey. In all our data to 15 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 2 Canberra cafes across 2 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 2 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
Where can I get black sesame in Canberra?
It is on 1 Canberra cafe menu right now, including Ujin Matcha House | 宇仁茶館 in Canberra. 1 more cafe has posted it, though it is not on its current menu. 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.
What else is black sesame called?
Canberra cafes also sell black sesame as "Black Sesame Coffee" and "Black Sesame Matcha". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafe menus and Google reviews.
Where in Australia is black sesame biggest?
It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 1.5% against Canberra's 0.5%, over the last 90 days.
When did black sesame first show up in Canberra cafes?
The earliest Canberra customer review about black sesame that The Froth has is from 4 Jul 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.
How does The Froth count this?
A cafe counts for black sesame 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 Canberra with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.