Black sesame in Canberra

Fading
No cafe has had it in the last 90 days.
Where to get oneHow it's trending

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.

How a black sesame is built

This is black sesame

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.

Drawn as a black sesame latte, the drink Canberra cafes most often put it in.

  1. Black sesame paste roasted black sesame ground with sugar or honey, 2 spoonfuls
  2. Cold milk about 200 ml, turning grey where it meets the paste
  3. Ice fills the cup before anything is poured
  4. Sesame cream cream whipped with a little of the paste; some cafes add espresso
  5. Black sesame seeds toasted, scattered on top

Illustrative: a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.

Where to get one

Where to get black sesame in Canberra

1 Canberra cafe has it on its menu. Prices are from those menus and may have changed.

1 cafe, cheapest first

  • Ujin Matcha House | 宇仁茶館Canberra · as “Black Sesame Matcha Foam”
    $13
Menus change, so check with the cafe before you go.

Canberra cafes with Black sesame on their menus or in their posts.

Trend

Is black sesame still growing in Canberra?

Not at the moment: it's fading.

Canberra's figures come from Google reviews and cafe menus (171 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.

Spread

How black sesame spread across Canberra

1suburb with cafes that have it

By Nov 2026 (so far)

Jun 2026Nov 2026 so far
Bars: Canberra cafes reviewed with it each month

Black sesame Canberra FAQs

Data updated 13 Nov 2026.

Too early to quote: one cafe has had it so far. A quote will appear here once 5 cafes have.

See how black sesame is doing across Australia

What is black sesame?

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 1 Canberra cafe across 1 suburb, in Google reviews and menus. The 1 in "Where to get one" are the cafe with it on its current menu.

Where can I get black sesame in Canberra?

It is on 1 Canberra cafe menu right now, including Ujin Matcha House | 宇仁茶館 in Canberra. 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 black sesame called?

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

Where in Australia is black sesame biggest?

It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 1.6% against Canberra's 0%, over the last 90 days.

When did black sesame first show up in Canberra cafes?

The earliest Canberra customer review about black sesame that The Froth has is from 4 Jul 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.

What is in a black sesame latte?

A typical black sesame latte, drawn from Canberra 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.

How does The Froth count this?

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 Canberra with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.