Only 2 cafes have it so far.
Fewer than 5 Darwin 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.
Burnt Basque cheesecake.
Burnt Basque cheesecake.
Illustrative: a typical plate, not one cafe's recipe.
Where to get one1 Darwin cafe has it on its menu. Prices are from those menus and may have changed.
It's emerging: early days yet.
Darwin's figures come from Google reviews and cafe menus (42 Darwin cafes with a review or menu in the last 90 days). We don't read Darwin cafes' posts yet, so this is a small sample and a drink shows up here later than it would in posts.
1suburb with cafes that have it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Darwin cafes with a customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
Data updated 14 Nov 2026.
Too early to quote: 2 cafes have had it so far. A quote will appear here once 5 cafes have.
Burnt Basque cheesecake. A typical basque cheesecake, drawn from Darwin cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with berries (sometimes, on the side), cream (a spoonful of whipped cream or crème fraîche) and burnt cheesecake (baked very hot until the top burns; no base, soft in the middle). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical plate, not one cafe's recipe. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 2 Darwin cafes across 1 suburb, in Google reviews and menus. The 1 in "Where to get one" are the cafe with it on its current menu.
It is on 1 Darwin cafe menu right now, including GoGo and Goi! (bake a cake by Goi) in Darwin City. 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 earliest Darwin customer review about basque cheesecake that The Froth has is from 15 Sep 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: 6.7% against Darwin's 2.4%, over the last 90 days.
A cafe counts for basque cheesecake 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 (14 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Darwin with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.