The earliest review we have is from 22 Jul 2026, less than four months ago.
Fewer than 5 Canberra cafes have it, or the first review we have is under 120 days old. It also covers anything on a small share of cafes that is holding steady.
The stages run Emerging, Rising, Peaking, Mainstream, Fading. A trend can skip a stage or move back.
Cold milk or cream whipped until thick and spooned over an iced coffee or matcha, often flavoured with vanilla, salted maple or honey: sweet, airy and slow to sink in.
Cold milk or cream whipped until thick and spooned over an iced coffee or matcha, often flavoured with vanilla, salted maple or honey: sweet, airy and slow to sink in.
Illustrative: a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.
Where to get one7 Canberra cafes have it on their menus. Prices are from those menus and may have changed.
7 cafes, cheapest first
Canberra cafes with Cold foam on their menus or in their posts.
The flavours on Canberra cafe menus that list cold foam, most cafes first, with the menu line most of them use. A chain counts as one cafe however many shops it has.
It's emerging: early days yet.
Canberra's figures come from Google reviews and cafe menus (165 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.
Canberra searches a month
First Canberra review in our data.
240 searches, the most yet.
Share of each city's cafes posting it, last 90 days.
Of every search for it in Australia, how many come from Canberra.
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
5suburbs with cafes that have it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Canberra cafes with a customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
1 suburb is known only from a menu, which we can't date, so it counts in the last month.
Data updated 13 Nov 2026.
Cold foam is on 7 Canberra cafe menus and has been seen at cafes in 5 Canberra suburbs.
Cold milk or cream whipped until thick and spooned over an iced coffee or matcha, often flavoured with vanilla, salted maple or honey: sweet, airy and slow to sink in. A typical cold foam, drawn from Canberra cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with cold foam (skim milk whipped cold with a little syrup, about 2 cm, spooned on last), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured) and iced coffee (cold brew or a long black over ice, about 250 ml). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe. In all our data to 13 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 9 Canberra cafes across 5 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 7 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu.
It is on 7 Canberra cafe menus right now, including Little Sutton Deakin in Deakin, Easy Oar Cafe in Acton, Double Shot Deakin in Deakin and Pressed Coffee Co 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.
It is early days. The Froth rates cold foam as Emerging as of 13 Nov 2026: the earliest review we have is from 22 Jul 2026, less than four months ago. In the 90 days to 13 Nov 2026, 4.2% of the Canberra cafes we see well (a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 315 cafes we have followed through both periods, none of the same cafes had it, against 1 in the 90 days before. Canberra searches for it were up 450% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 17% against Canberra's 4.2%, over the last 90 days.
There were 240 searches for cold foam in Canberra 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 240 (Oct 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Canberra.
The earliest Canberra customer review about cold foam that The Froth has is from 22 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.
A cafe counts for cold foam 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.