Lavender in Brisbane

Lavender syrup stirred into lattes, matcha and lemonades: floral and lightly sweet, and often tinted pale purple. In all our data to 13 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 4 Brisbane cafes across 4 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus.

Brisbane cafes also sell lavender as "Lavender Matcha", "Lavender Cinnamon Espresso", "Lavender Honey Matcha" and "Lavender Matcha Latte". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafes' own posts and menus.

The earliest Brisbane cafe post or customer review about lavender that The Froth has is from 1 May 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.

It is on a bigger share of Hobart cafes: 1.1% against Brisbane's 0%, over the last 90 days.

A typical lavender latte, drawn from Brisbane cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with lavender sprig (sometimes laid across the top), dried lavender (a few buds, for the smell more than the taste), milk foam (about 1 cm), espresso and milk (one shot with steamed milk) and lavender syrup (about 15 ml, at the bottom of the glass). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.

A cafe counts for lavender 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.