Only 2 cafes have it so far.
Fewer than 5 Gold Coast cafes have it, or the first cafe post or review we have is under 120 days old, or creators are posting it before any cafe has it. 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 brew coffee poured over coconut water and ice.
Cold brew coffee poured over coconut water and ice.
Illustrative: a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.
Where to get one2 Gold Coast cafes have it on their menus. Prices are from those menus and may have changed.
It's emerging: early days yet.
This is a small sample: 309 Gold Coast cafes with an Instagram post or a menu in the last 90 days, so a few cafes can move a figure.
2suburbs with cafes posting it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Gold Coast cafes with a post or customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
2 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
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.
Cold brew coffee poured over coconut water and ice. A typical coconut water cold brew, drawn from Gold Coast cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with straw (stir before you drink), cold brew (about 100 ml, poured slowly so it sits on the coconut water), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured) and coconut water (chilled, about 200 ml, poured over the ice first). 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 2 Gold Coast cafes across 2 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 2 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu.
It is on 2 Gold Coast cafe menus right now, including Coffee Major in Southport and Espresso Bonsai in Surfers Paradise. 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.
A cafe counts for coconut water cold brew from the first public post or customer review we found about it, the cafe's own post or a customer's, and while it is on the cafe's current menu. Shares are of the cafes we see well: those with an Instagram post or 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 cafe posts or reviews (14 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Gold Coast with all of a trend's names added up. Captions stay private; we only link to public posts. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.
Of the cities The Froth reads, Gold Coast has it at the biggest share of cafes: 0.7% of Gold Coast cafes in the last 90 days, against under 0.1% in Sydney and under 0.1% in Melbourne.