Hibiscus in Brisbane

Dried hibiscus flowers brewed into a deep red tea, served iced or topped up with lemonade or soda: tart, a little like cranberry. In all our data to 13 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 8 Brisbane cafes across 40 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 41 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.

It is on 40 Brisbane cafe menus right now, including PureBred Coffee Bar in North Lakes, Cafe Disco in West End, BLANKO Specialty Coffee - New Farm in New Farm and Coffee by Blanko in Morningside. 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.

Brisbane cafes also sell hibiscus as "Iced Hibiscus Tea Lemonade", "Hibiscus Iced Tea", "Hibiscus Lemon Iced Tea", "Hibiscus Lemonade", "Hibiscus Tea" and "Iced Hibiscus Rose Tea". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafes' own posts and menus.

It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 2.3% against Brisbane's 1%, over the last 90 days.

It is early days. The Froth rates hibiscus as Emerging as of 13 Nov 2026: the earliest cafe post or review we have is from 9 Oct 2026, less than four months ago. In the 90 days to 13 Nov 2026, 1% of the Brisbane cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 1,071 cafes we have followed through both periods, 1 of the same cafes had it, against none in the 90 days before. Brisbane searches for it were up 8% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.

There were 50 searches for hibiscus in Brisbane in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 20 searches (Dec 2024) to 80 (Mar 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Brisbane.

The earliest Brisbane cafe post or customer review about hibiscus that The Froth has is from 9 Oct 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 hibiscus iced tea, drawn from Brisbane cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with straw (paper or reusable), mint (a few leaves), citrus wheel (lime or orange on the rim), ice (a full cup of it) and hibiscus tea (dried hibiscus flowers steeped, sweetened and chilled, about 300 ml). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.

A cafe counts for hibiscus from the first public post or customer review we found about it, the cafe's own post or a customer's, and while it is on the cafe's current menu. Shares are of the cafes we see well: those with an Instagram post or 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 cafe posts or reviews (13 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Brisbane with all of a trend's names added up. Captions stay private; we only link to public posts. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.