Searches in Gold Coast are up 946% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025), while about as many of the same cafes have it (16, against 16 in the 90 days before).
At least 10 cafes had it in the last 90 days, and either the number of the same cafes with it grew by a quarter or more on the 90 days before (counting only cafes we have read through both periods, and at least 10 of them), or it is new among them, or Gold Coast searches rose by a quarter or more while those cafes held 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 one61 Gold Coast cafes: 22 on their menus, 39 from posts. Prices are from the menus and may have changed.
Showing 10 of 61 cafes, cheapest first
Gold Coast cafes with Cold foam on their menus or in their posts.
The flavours on Gold Coast 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.
Yes, it's rising.
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.
Gold Coast searches a month
1,050 searches, the most yet.
Share of each city's cafes posting it, last 90 days.
Of every search for it in Australia, how many come from Gold Coast.
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
30suburbs 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.
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 22 Gold Coast cafe menus and has been posted by cafes in 30 Gold Coast suburbs, while Gold Coast searches for it rose 946% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025).
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 Gold Coast cafes' own posts, 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 98 Gold Coast cafes across 30 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 61 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
It is on 22 Gold Coast cafe menus right now, including Castaway Coffee Bar in Surfers Paradise, Lil-Ego Cafe in Ormeau, Substance Espresso in Runaway Bay and The Wee Nibble Cafe in Nerang. 39 more cafes have posted it, though it is not on their current menu. 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.
Yes. The Froth rates cold foam as Rising as of 14 Nov 2026: searches in Gold Coast are up 946% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025), while about as many of the same cafes have it (16, against 16 in the 90 days before). In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 17% of the Gold Coast cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 444 cafes we have followed through both periods, 16 of the same cafes had it, against 16 in the 90 days before (level). Gold Coast searches for it were up 946% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
Of the cities The Froth reads, Gold Coast has it at the biggest share of cafes: 17% of Gold Coast cafes in the last 90 days, against 13% in Brisbane and 9.5% in Darwin.
There were 1,050 searches for cold foam in Gold Coast in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 20 searches (Dec 2024) to 1,050 (Oct 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Gold Coast.
The earliest Gold Coast cafe post or customer review about cold foam that The Froth has is from 17 Dec 2024. 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 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.