Hibiscus in Gold Coast

Dried hibiscus flowers brewed into a deep red tea, served iced or topped up with lemonade or soda: tart, a little like cranberry. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 9 Gold Coast cafes across 18 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 23 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu.

It is on 23 Gold Coast cafe menus right now, including Rudy's Real food Organic Cafe in Surfers Paradise, Coffee Major in Southport, O Bagel Broadbeach in Broadbeach and O Bagel Oasis Shopping Centre in Broadbeach. 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.

The average is $8.00, from 6 Gold Coast cafe menus as of 14 Nov 2026. Most charge between $6.75 and $9.75; the lowest we have seen is $6.50 and the highest $12.

Of the cities The Froth reads, Gold Coast has it at the biggest share of cafes: 2.3% of Gold Coast cafes in the last 90 days, against 1.2% in Canberra and 1% in Sydney.

Gold Coast cafes also sell hibiscus as "Hibiscus Tea", "Iced Hibiscus Tea Lemonade", "Hibiscus Lemon Iced Tea", "Hibiscus Iced Tea", "Hibiscus Lemonade" and "Hibiscus Strawberry Iced Tea". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafes' own posts and menus.

Not at the moment. The Froth rates hibiscus as Fading as of 14 Nov 2026: the few searches for it in Gold Coast are under half their 12-month high, and cafes are not picking it up: too few of the same cafes have it to read a change (1, against none in the 90 days before). In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 2.3% 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, 1 of the same cafes had it, against none in the 90 days before. Gold Coast searches for it were down 20% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.

There were 10 searches for hibiscus 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 10 searches (Dec 2024) to 30 (Mar 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Gold Coast.

The earliest Gold Coast cafe post or customer review about hibiscus that The Froth has is from 16 Aug 2025. 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 hibiscus iced tea, drawn from Gold Coast cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with straw (paper or reusable), mint (a few leaves), citrus wheel (lime or orange on the rim), ice (a full cup of it) and hibiscus tea (dried hibiscus flowers steeped, sweetened and chilled, about 300 ml). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.

A cafe counts for hibiscus 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.