The earliest review we have is from 27 Sep 2026, less than four months ago.
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.
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 one6 Darwin cafes have it on their menus. Prices are from those menus and may have changed.
6 cafes, cheapest first
Darwin cafes with Cold foam on their menus or in their posts.
The flavours on Darwin 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.
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.
9suburbs 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.
3 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Data updated 14 Nov 2026.
Cold foam is on 6 Darwin cafe menus and has been seen at cafes in 9 Darwin 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 Darwin 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 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 7 Darwin cafes across 9 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 6 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu.
It is on 6 Darwin cafe menus right now, including McDonald's Coolalinga in Coolalinga, McDonald's Darwin Central in Darwin City, McDonald's Johnston in Johnston and McDonald's Ludmilla Parap in Ludmilla. 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 14 Nov 2026: the earliest review we have is from 27 Sep 2026, less than four months ago. In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 9.5% of the Darwin cafes we see well (a current menu in that time) had it.
It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 17% against Darwin's 9.5%, over the last 90 days.
The earliest Darwin customer review about cold foam that The Froth has is from 27 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.
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 (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.