Black sesame in Adelaide

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 13 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 6 Adelaide cafes across 3 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 4 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu.

It is on 4 Adelaide cafe menus right now, including LLaw Boutique Restaurant Port Plaza in Port Adelaide, Seoul Sisters in Adelaide, Lunar Landing in Brompton and fold. in Hindmarsh. 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.

Adelaide cafes also sell black sesame as "Black Sesame Latte" and "Black Sesame Hojicha". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafe menus and Google reviews.

It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 1.6% against Adelaide's 1.1%, over the last 90 days.

It is early days. The Froth rates black sesame as Emerging as of 13 Nov 2026: it is on a small share of cafes (1.1% in the last 90 days) and holding steady. In the 90 days to 13 Nov 2026, 1.1% of the Adelaide cafes we see well (a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 716 cafes we have followed through both periods, 1 of the same cafes had it, against none in the 90 days before. Adelaide searches for it were down 8% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.

There were 40 searches for black sesame in Adelaide 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 70 (Apr 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Adelaide.

The earliest Adelaide customer review about black sesame that The Froth has is from 26 Apr 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.

A typical black sesame latte, drawn from Adelaide cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with black sesame seeds (toasted, scattered on top), sesame cream (cream whipped with a little of the paste; some cafes add espresso), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured), cold milk (about 200 ml, turning grey where it meets the paste) and black sesame paste (roasted black sesame ground with sugar or honey, 2 spoonfuls). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.

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 (13 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Adelaide with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.