Black sesame in Darwin

Emerging
Only one cafe has it so far.
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 Darwin 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 Darwin

We haven't seen it on a Darwin cafe menu or in a Darwin cafe's own post yet. Check back soon.

Trend

Is black sesame still growing in Darwin?

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.

Spread

How black sesame spread across Darwin

1suburb with cafes that have it

By Nov 2026 (so far)

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

Black sesame Darwin FAQs

Data updated 14 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 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 1 Darwin cafe across 1 suburb, in Google reviews and menus.

When did black sesame first show up in Darwin cafes?

The earliest Darwin customer review about black sesame that The Froth has is from 3 Oct 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 Darwin 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.

Where in Australia is black sesame biggest?

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

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 (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.