Ube in Canberra
Emerging
It is on a small share of cafes (3.1% in the last 90 days) and holding steady.
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.
4Canberra cafe menus list it
50Canberra searches in Oct 2026
Purple yam, sweetened and used as a paste or syrup in lattes, matcha and cold foams: sweet and nutty, a little like vanilla, and bright purple.
Is ube still growing in Canberra?
It's emerging: early days yet.
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.
Canberra searches a month
Jun 2026
First Canberra review in our data.
Oct 2026
50 searches, the most yet.
Tap a number for what changed then.
How Canberra compares
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Canberra's share of Australia's searches
2%Aug to Oct 2026Down from 3% in Aug to Oct 2025 (the green tick).On menus
Cafe menus listing it now, Canberra.
4 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.
Canberra, Australia and the world
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
What ube is in
Every cafe menu that names ube is sorted into one kind of drink by its words: a burger, a toastie and a wrap are all "burgers, sandwiches & wraps".
Each shop counts once, under the drink we list it for below, so a cafe with ube on several drinks shows under one of them.
The usual price is the middle price of those menus, with a chain's price counted once so one chain can't set it, shown when at least three cafes list a price.
- Coffee3 cafesUsually $8 ·
Ube Latte
- Matcha1 cafe
Ube Matcha
Where to get ube in Canberra
5 Canberra cafes: 4 on their menus, 1 from posts.
What it costs
The usual price on each kind of drink, in Canberra
- Coffee$8$7.20$8
Bars share one scale, $7.20 to $8: the band is where most cafes sit, the dot the usual price.
5 cafes, A to Z
- ONA Coffee House Cafe Fyshwick$8
- Pressed Coffee Co$10
- Purple Rain CafeUnverifiedPrice not on the menu
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
- Sharon May's Filipino Cuisine$8
- Supersweet Cafe$7
Canberra cafes with Ube on their menus or in their posts.
How ube spread across Canberra
7suburbs 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.
4 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Ube Canberra FAQs
Ube is on 4 Canberra cafe menus and has been seen at cafes in 7 Canberra suburbs.
What is ube?
Purple yam, sweetened and used as a paste or syrup in lattes, matcha and cold foams: sweet and nutty, a little like vanilla, and bright purple. In all our data to 15 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 8 Canberra cafes across 7 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 5 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
What drinks is ube in?
Across 4 cafe menus in Canberra that list ube as of 15 Nov 2026, the most common drinks are coffee (3 cafes) and matcha (1 cafe).
How much is a ube coffee in Canberra?
The usual price of a ube coffee in Canberra is $8 as of 15 Nov 2026, and most cafes charge between $7.20 and $8, from 3 cafes that list a price (a chain counted once). Prices differ a lot from one kind of drink to another, so this page gives the usual price for each rather than one average.
Where can I get ube in Canberra?
It is on 4 Canberra cafe menus right now, including Supersweet Cafe in Braddon, ONA Coffee House Cafe Fyshwick in Fyshwick, Sharon May's Filipino Cuisine in Gungahlin and Pressed Coffee Co 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 ube called?
Canberra cafes also sell ube as "Ube Matcha", "Ube Latte", "Ube Cloud Matcha", "Ube Iced Latte" and "Ube Vanilla Latte". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafe menus and Google reviews.
Where in Australia is ube biggest?
It is on a bigger share of Brisbane cafes: 3.4% against Canberra's 3.1%, over the last 90 days.
Is ube getting more popular in Canberra?
It is early days. The Froth rates ube as Emerging as of 15 Nov 2026: it is on a small share of cafes (3.1% in the last 90 days) and holding steady. In the 90 days to 15 Nov 2026, 3.1% 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, 1 of the same cafes had it, against 1 in the 90 days before. Canberra searches for it were up 43% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
How many people search for ube in Canberra?
There were 50 searches for ube 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 10 searches (Dec 2024) to 50 (Oct 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Canberra.
When did ube first show up in Canberra cafes?
The earliest Canberra customer review about ube that The Froth has is from 5 Jun 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 ube 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.