Taro in Darwin

Emerging
Only one cafe has it so far.
Where to get oneHow it's trending

A starchy root used as a paste or powder in lattes and milk teas: sweet and nutty, a little like vanilla, and pale purple in the cup.

How a taro is built

This is taro

A starchy root used as a paste or powder in lattes and milk teas: sweet and nutty, a little like vanilla, and pale purple in the cup.

Drawn as a taro latte, the drink Darwin cafes most often put it in.

  1. Taro paste steamed taro mashed with sugar, a thick layer at the bottom
  2. Cold milk about 220 ml, usually with no coffee at all
  3. Ice fills the cup before anything is poured
  4. Wide straw wide enough for the taro

Illustrative: a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.

Where to get one

Where to get taro in Darwin

1 Darwin cafe has it on its menu. Prices are from those menus and may have changed.

1 cafe, cheapest first

  • Gong Cha CasuarinaCasuarina · as “Taro Milk Tea”
    Price not on the menu
Menus change, so check with the cafe before you go.

Darwin cafes with Taro on their menus or in their posts.

Trend

Is taro 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 taro 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

Taro 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 taro is doing across Australia

What is taro?

A starchy root used as a paste or powder in lattes and milk teas: sweet and nutty, a little like vanilla, and pale purple in the cup. 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. The 1 in "Where to get one" are the cafe with it on its current menu.

Where can I get taro in Darwin?

It is on 1 Darwin cafe menu right now, including Gong Cha Casuarina in Casuarina. 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.

What else is taro called?

Darwin cafes also sell taro as "Taro Latte", "Taro Milk Tea" and "Taro Tea". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafe menus and Google reviews.

Where in Australia is taro biggest?

It is on a bigger share of Adelaide cafes: 3.8% against Darwin's 0%, over the last 90 days.

When did taro first show up in Darwin cafes?

The earliest Darwin customer review about taro that The Froth has is from 30 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 taro latte?

A typical taro latte, drawn from Darwin cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with wide straw (wide enough for the taro), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured), cold milk (about 220 ml, usually with no coffee at all) and taro paste (steamed taro mashed with sugar, a thick layer at the bottom). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.

How does The Froth count this?

A cafe counts for taro 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.