The few searches for it in Gold Coast are under half their 12-month high, and cafes are not picking it up.
No cafe had it in the last 90 days, or the number of the same cafes with it fell by a quarter or more on the 90 days before (from at least 10 cafes) while searches did not rise, or searches are under half their 12-month high and cafes are not picking it up.
The stages run Emerging, Rising, Peaking, Mainstream, Fading. A trend can skip a stage or move back.
A floral syrup made from elderflowers, mixed into sodas, iced teas and cold foams: light, sweet and perfumed.
A floral syrup made from elderflowers, mixed into sodas, iced teas and cold foams: light, sweet and perfumed.
Drawn as an elderflower soda, the drink Gold Coast cafes most often put it in.
Illustrative: a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.
Where to get one4 Gold Coast cafes have it on their menus. Prices are from those menus and may have changed.
The flavours on Gold Coast cafe menus that list elderflower, most cafes first, with the menu line most of them use. A chain counts as one cafe however many shops it has.
Not at the moment: it's fading.
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.
4suburbs 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.
Too early to quote: 3 cafes have had it so far. A quote will appear here once 5 cafes have.
A floral syrup made from elderflowers, mixed into sodas, iced teas and cold foams: light, sweet and perfumed. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 3 Gold Coast cafes across 4 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 4 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu.
It is on 4 Gold Coast cafe menus right now, including Paddock Bakery in Burleigh Heads, The Paddock Bakery in Broadbeach, Ms Margot's Bar & Eats in Surfers Paradise and Tarte Beach House in Currumbin. 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.
Gold Coast cafes also sell elderflower as "Elderflower Iced Tea" and "Elderflower Tonic". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafes' own posts and menus.
It is on a bigger share of Hobart cafes: 1.1% against Gold Coast's 1%, over the last 90 days.
The earliest Gold Coast cafe post or customer review about elderflower that The Froth has is from 15 Apr 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 typical elderflower soda, drawn from Gold Coast cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with mint (a sprig on top), lemon wheel (a slice on the rim), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured), soda water (about 200 ml, poured over the ice) and elderflower cordial (about 30 ml). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.
A cafe counts for elderflower 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.