Southern Suburbs

In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, the tracked trends most posted by cafes in the Southern Suburbs were Matcha (16% of cafes, 7 cafes), Hojicha (14% of cafes, 6 cafes) and Iced latte (9% of cafes, 4 cafes). Shares are of the 43 cafes there we followed in that time.

Against Brisbane as a whole, it over-indexes most on Hojicha: 4.4x the Brisbane share.

No suburb in the Southern Suburbs has the 12 cafes we follow that we need to compare suburbs yet, as at 14 Nov 2026. The Southern Suburbs as a whole is about average: 15 of the 43 cafes we read in the last 90 days posted a rising drink, and 15 different trends in six months.

In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, these trends were posted widely by Brisbane cafes but rarely or never by the 43 cafes we followed in the Southern Suburbs: Cold foam (3 here, where the Brisbane share would give about 9) and Cold brew (1 here, where the Brisbane share would give about 3).

A gap means we did not see it in the posts we see, not that no cafe there sells it.

We have seen Matcha at 152 cafes in the Southern Suburbs across posts, reviews, menus and press, as at 14 Nov 2026. The most recent sightings: PHE COFFEE Brisbane (Sunnybank Hills), The Smug Fig Kitchen & Social (Stones Corner), FUFU SANDO (Sunnybank), Blackbird Espresso — Salisbury — (Salisbury) and Mountain River Patisserie (Runcorn). Each one on this page links to where we saw it.

Hojicha. In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 14% of the cafes in the Southern Suburbs we followed posted it (6 of 43), 4.4x the Brisbane share of 3%. No other tracked trend is as far ahead of the Brisbane share there.

South of the river from Woolloongabba, Coorparoo, Greenslopes and Annerley through Yeronga, Moorooka, Salisbury and Holland Park to Mount Gravatt, Carindale, Cannon Hill, Sunnybank and Eight Mile Plains, and out to Acacia Ridge and Calamvale. We track cafes in 48 of its suburbs: Acacia Ridge, Algester, Annerley, Archerfield, Burbank, Calamvale, Camp Hill, Cannon Hill, Carina, Carina Heights, Carindale, Coopers Plains, Coorparoo, Drewvale, Dutton Park, Eight Mile Plains, Fairfield, Greenslopes, Heathwood, Holland Park, Holland Park West, Karawatha, Kuraby, MacGregor, Mansfield, Moorooka, Mount Gravatt, Mount Gravatt East, Nathan, Pallara, Parkinson, Robertson, Rochedale, Rocklea, Runcorn, Salisbury, Stones Corner, Stretton, Sunnybank, Sunnybank Hills, Tarragindi, Tennyson, Upper Mount Gravatt, Willawong, Wishart, Woolloongabba, Yeerongpilly, Yeronga.

We track every cafe we can find in Brisbane. We read the public posts of the ones we follow, plus customer reviews, cafe menus and food press. A cafe counts for a trend when it, or a customer posting from it, posted about it. Creators' posts never count as proof a cafe sells something.

A share is the cafes posting a trend in the last 90 days, out of the cafes in the same place that posted anything then. An area needs at least 10 such cafes before we show one. "First seen" is the earliest post we have since 1 Jul 2025. That is when a trend shows up in what we collect, not when or where it started. Figures run to 14 Nov 2026.