Ube in Darwin

Emerging
None of the same cafes had it, against 1 in the 90 days before.
Where to get oneHow it's trending

Purple yam, sweetened and used as a paste or syrup in lattes, matcha and cold foams: sweet and nutty, a little like vanilla, and bright purple.

How an ube is built

This is ube

Purple yam, sweetened and used as a paste or syrup in lattes, matcha and cold foams: sweet and nutty, a little like vanilla, and bright purple.

Drawn as an ube latte, the drink Darwin cafes most often put it in.

  1. Ube base purple yam jam loosened with condensed milk, 2 to 3 spoonfuls
  2. Cold milk about 200 ml, poured over so it turns lilac where they meet
  3. Ice fills the cup before anything is poured
  4. Ube cold foam milk whipped with a little ube; some cafes add an espresso shot instead

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

Where to get one

Where to get ube in Darwin

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

1 cafe, cheapest first

  • Jamaica Blue Darwin Private HospitalTiwi · as “Ube Iced Latte”
    Price not on the menu
Menus change, so check with the cafe before you go.

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

Trend

Is ube 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 ube spread across Darwin

2suburbs with cafes that have it

By Nov 2026 (so far)

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

Ube Darwin FAQs

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.

See how ube is doing across Australia

What is ube?

Purple yam, sweetened and used as a paste or syrup in lattes, matcha and cold foams: sweet and nutty, a little like vanilla, and bright purple. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 2 Darwin cafes across 2 suburbs, 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 ube in Darwin?

It is on 1 Darwin cafe menu right now, including Jamaica Blue Darwin Private Hospital in Tiwi. 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 ube called?

Darwin cafes also sell ube as "Ube Latte", "Ube Iced Latte" and "Ube Matcha". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafe menus and Google reviews.

Where in Australia is ube biggest?

It is on a bigger share of Canberra cafes: 3.5% against Darwin's 2.4%, over the last 90 days.

When did ube first show up in Darwin cafes?

The earliest Darwin customer review about ube that The Froth has is from 19 Jul 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 an ube latte?

A typical ube latte, drawn from Darwin cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with ube cold foam (milk whipped with a little ube; some cafes add an espresso shot instead), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured), cold milk (about 200 ml, poured over so it turns lilac where they meet) and ube base (purple yam jam loosened with condensed milk, 2 to 3 spoonfuls). 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 ube 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.