Pistachio in Gold Coast

Ground pistachio nuts worked into a paste, syrup or cream for lattes, matcha and cold foams: nutty, sweet and pale green. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 32 Gold Coast cafes across 20 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 22 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.

It is on 14 Gold Coast cafe menus right now, including Dayo Cafe in Tweed Heads, Pi & Pine Cafe in Helensvale, San Churro Surfers Paradise in Surfers Paradise and CLOVE N HONEY _ Ormeau in Ormeau. 8 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 $9.86, from 7 Gold Coast cafe menus as of 14 Nov 2026. Most charge between $9 and $10.54; the lowest we have seen is $9 and the highest $10.60.

Of the cities The Froth reads, Gold Coast has it at the biggest share of cafes: 5.8% of Gold Coast cafes in the last 90 days, against 5.4% in Brisbane and 4.5% in Hobart.

Gold Coast cafes also sell pistachio as "Pistachio Latte", "Pistachio Cold Foam", "Pistachio Cloud Iced Latte", "Pistachio Matcha", "Pistachio Cold Brew", "Pistachio Foam", "Pistachio Iced Latte" and "Creamy Pistachio Cold Foam", plus 8 other names. The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafes' own posts and menus.

It is early days. The Froth rates pistachio as Emerging as of 14 Nov 2026: it is on a small share of cafes (5.8% in the last 90 days) and holding steady. In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 5.8% 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, 2 of the same cafes had it, against 1 in the 90 days before. Gold Coast searches for it were down 17% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.

There were 20 searches for pistachio 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 (Jan 2025) to 30 (May 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Gold Coast.

The earliest Gold Coast cafe post or customer review about pistachio that The Froth has is from 1 Nov 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 pistachio latte, drawn from Gold Coast cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with crushed pistachio (a pinch over the top), pistachio cream (cream whipped with pistachio paste, about 2 cm), pistachio sauce (smeared around the inside of the cup before it is filled), espresso (a double shot, poured last so it sits on top), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured) and cold milk (about 180 ml, stirred with a spoonful of pistachio paste). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.

A cafe counts for pistachio 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.