It is on a small share of cafes (3.6% in the last 90 days) and holding steady, and searches in Canberra are down 25% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025).
Fewer than 5 Canberra cafes have it, or the first review we have is under 120 days old. It also covers anything on a small share of cafes that is holding steady.
The stages run Emerging, Rising, Peaking, Mainstream, Fading. A trend can skip a stage or move back.
Japanese green tea roasted until it turns brown, usually whisked into milk as a latte: nutty, toasty and lower in caffeine than matcha.
Drawn as an iced hojicha latte, the drink Canberra cafes most often put it in.
6 Canberra cafes: 5 on their menus, 1 from posts.
6 cafes, cheapest first
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Canberra cafes with Hojicha on their menus or in their posts.
Each bar is the Canberra cafes whose menu lists hojicha in that flavour. Under each flavour is the menu line most of those cafes use.
A chain counts as one cafe however many shops it has.
It's emerging: early days yet.
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.
Canberra searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
First Canberra review in our data.
460 searches, the busiest month.
Tap a number for what changed then.
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Cafe menus listing it now, Canberra.
5 cafe menus
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.
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
8suburbs 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.
2 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Hojicha is on 5 Canberra cafe menus and has been seen at cafes in 8 Canberra suburbs.
Japanese green tea roasted until it turns brown, usually whisked into milk as a latte: nutty, toasty and lower in caffeine than matcha. In all our data to 15 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 10 Canberra cafes across 8 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 6 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
It is on 5 Canberra cafe menus right now, including Cafe Beetroot in Greenway, Tinker Tailor Jamison in Macquarie, Champi Express Cafe in Phillip and Early Edition in Kingston. 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.
The average is $7.94, from 5 Canberra cafe menus as of 15 Nov 2026. Most charge between $5.88 and $9.74; the lowest we have seen is $5.80 and the highest $9.90.
It is on a bigger share of Brisbane cafes: 4.8% against Canberra's 3.6%, over the last 90 days.
It is early days. The Froth rates hojicha as Emerging as of 15 Nov 2026: it is on a small share of cafes (3.6% in the last 90 days) and holding steady, and searches in Canberra are down 25% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025). In the 90 days to 15 Nov 2026, 3.6% of the Canberra cafes we see well (a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 361 cafes we have followed through both periods, 3 of the same cafes had it, against 3 in the 90 days before. Canberra searches for it were down 25% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
There were 330 searches for hojicha in Canberra in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 110 searches (Dec 2024) to 460 (Jan 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Canberra.
The earliest Canberra customer review about hojicha that The Froth has is from 15 Sep 2025. 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.
A typical iced hojicha latte, drawn from Canberra cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with hojicha (roasted green tea powder whisked with warm water, poured on last), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured) and cold milk (about 200 ml). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.
A cafe counts for hojicha 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.