Part of the Matcha trend
It is on a small share of cafes (4.2% in the last 90 days) and holding steady.
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.
Matcha topped with a thick, airy layer of whipped cream or foam.
Matcha topped with a thick, airy layer of whipped cream or foam.
Illustrative: a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.
Where to get one8 Canberra cafes have it on their menus. Prices are from those menus and may have changed.
8 cafes, cheapest first
Canberra cafes with Matcha cloud on their menus or in their posts.
The flavours on Canberra cafe menus that list matcha cloud, 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.
7suburbs 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.
5 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Data updated 13 Nov 2026.
Matcha cloud is on 8 Canberra cafe menus and has been seen at cafes in 7 Canberra suburbs.
Matcha topped with a thick, airy layer of whipped cream or foam. A typical matcha cloud, drawn from Canberra cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with matcha (a light dusting over the top), matcha cream (cream and milk whipped thick with whisked matcha, piled about 3 cm high), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured) and cold milk (about 200 ml; coconut water and tea are common bases too). 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 7 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 8 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu.
It is on 8 Canberra cafe menus right now, including Whale Tea Canberra in Canberra, Cafe Gather in Braddon, Supersweet Cafe in Braddon and Champi Express Cafe in Phillip. 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.
The average is $10.84, from 5 Canberra cafe menus as of 14 Nov 2026. Most charge between $8.12 and $12.74; the lowest we have seen is $7 and the highest $12.90.
Of the cities The Froth reads, Canberra has it at the biggest share of cafes: 4.2% of Canberra cafes in the last 90 days, against 3.4% in Sydney and 3.3% in Gold Coast.
It is early days. The Froth rates matcha cloud as Emerging as of 13 Nov 2026: it is on a small share of cafes (4.2% in the last 90 days) and holding steady. 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. Canberra searches for it were up 40% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
There were 20 searches for matcha cloud 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 0 searches (Dec 2024) to 30 (Nov 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Canberra.
The earliest Canberra customer review about matcha cloud that The Froth has is from 4 Mar 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 matcha cloud 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.