Matcha in Gold Coast

Finely ground Japanese green tea whisked with water and usually poured over milk, hot or iced: grassy, a little bitter and bright green. In all our data to 13 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 240 Gold Coast cafes across 53 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 189 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.

It is on 157 Gold Coast cafe menus right now, including Caffeination Burleigh in Burleigh Heads, Paradox Coffee Roasters Cafe in Broadbeach, Chut & Co in Mermaid Beach and Deja Brew Cafe in Southport. 32 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.

The average is $6.63, from 85 Gold Coast cafe menus as of 14 Nov 2026. Most charge between $5 and $8.96; the lowest we have seen is $4.50 and the highest $10.95.

Of the cities The Froth reads, Gold Coast has it at the biggest share of cafes: 46% of Gold Coast cafes in the last 90 days, against 45% in Adelaide and 44% in Hobart.

Not at the moment. The Froth rates matcha as Fading as of 13 Nov 2026: fewer of the same cafes had it lately (19, down from 29 in the 90 days before), while searches in Gold Coast are about level (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025). In the 90 days to 13 Nov 2026, 46% of the Gold Coast cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 435 cafes we have followed through both periods, 19 of the same cafes had it, against 29 in the 90 days before (down 34%). Gold Coast searches for it were down 4% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.

There were 3,190 searches for matcha 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 1,810 searches (Dec 2024) to 3,860 (Jul 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Gold Coast.

The earliest Gold Coast cafe post or customer review about matcha that The Froth has is from 24 Dec 2023. 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 iced matcha latte, drawn from Gold Coast cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with whisked matcha (2 to 4 g of matcha whisked with 60 ml of warm water, poured on last), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured) and cold milk (about 200 ml, often oat, lightly sweetened). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.

A cafe counts for matcha 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 (13 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.