Part of the Matcha trend
It is on a small share of cafes (3.3% in the last 90 days) and holding steady.
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.
Matcha topped with a thick, airy layer of whipped cream or foam.
Matcha topped with a thick, airy layer of whipped cream or foam.
Illustrative: a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.
Where to get one13 Gold Coast cafes: 11 on their menus, 2 from posts. Prices are from the menus and may have changed.
Showing 10 of 13 cafes, cheapest first
Gold Coast cafes with Matcha cloud on their menus or in their posts.
The flavours on Gold Coast cafe menus that list matcha cloud, most cafes first, with the menu line most of them use. A chain counts as one cafe however many shops it has.
It's emerging: early days yet.
This is a small sample: 300 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
60 searches, the busiest month.
First Gold Coast cafe post or review in our data.
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.
10suburbs 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.
4 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Data updated 13 Nov 2026.
Matcha cloud is on 11 Gold Coast cafe menus and has been posted by cafes in 10 Gold Coast suburbs.
Matcha topped with a thick, airy layer of whipped cream or foam. A typical matcha cloud, drawn from Gold Coast cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with matcha (a light dusting over the top), matcha cream (cream and milk whipped thick with whisked matcha, piled about 3 cm high), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured) and cold milk (about 200 ml; coconut water and tea are common bases too). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe. In all our data to 13 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 14 Gold Coast cafes across 10 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 13 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
It is on 11 Gold Coast cafe menus right now, including Public Supply in Tweed Heads, Saint Coffee Collective in Southport, Dayo Cafe in Tweed Heads and Sir Sanger in Surfers Paradise. 2 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 $9.33, from 6 Gold Coast cafe menus as of 14 Nov 2026. Most charge between $8 and $11; the lowest we have seen is $8 and the highest $11.50.
It is on a bigger share of Canberra cafes: 4.2% against Gold Coast's 3.3%, over the last 90 days.
It is early days. The Froth rates matcha cloud as Emerging as of 13 Nov 2026: it is on a small share of cafes (3.3% in the last 90 days) and holding steady. In the 90 days to 13 Nov 2026, 3.3% of the Gold Coast cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in that time) had it. Gold Coast searches for it were up 13% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
There were 40 searches for matcha cloud 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 60 (Jan 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Gold Coast.
The earliest Gold Coast cafe post or customer review about matcha cloud that The Froth has is from 22 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 cafe counts for matcha cloud 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.