Salted maple in Gold Coast

Emerging
Only 3 cafes have it so far.
Where to get oneHow it's trending

Maple syrup with a pinch of salt, most often whipped into the cold foam on an iced coffee or matcha: sweet and salty, close to salted caramel.

How a salted maple is built

This is salted maple

Maple syrup with a pinch of salt, most often whipped into the cold foam on an iced coffee or matcha: sweet and salty, close to salted caramel.

Drawn as a salted maple cold brew, the drink Gold Coast cafes most often put it in.

  1. Cold brew about 250 ml over ice
  2. Ice fills the cup before anything is poured
  3. Salted maple foam milk and cream whipped cold with maple syrup and a pinch of salt, about 2 cm
  4. Sea salt flakes a pinch on top

Illustrative: a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.

Where to get one

Where to get salted maple in Gold Coast

2 Gold Coast cafes: 1 on its menu, 1 from posts. Prices are from the menus and may have changed.

2 cafes, cheapest first

  • KOVI CafeOrmeau · as “Maple Sea Salt Iced Matcha”
    $10.50
  • Eden Kitchen & BarSurfers ParadiseUnverified
    Price not on the menu
Unverified: seen in the cafe's own post or a creator's post there, not on its current menu. Menus change, so check with the cafe before you go.

Gold Coast cafes with Salted maple on their menus or in their posts.

Flavours

Flavours we're seeing

The flavours on Gold Coast cafe menus that list salted maple, most cafes first, with the menu line most of them use. A chain counts as one cafe however many shops it has.

  1. Matcha“Maple Sea Salt Iced Matcha”1 cafe
  2. Sea salt“Maple Sea Salt Iced Matcha”1 cafe
Trend

Is salted maple still growing in Gold Coast?

It's emerging: early days yet.

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.

Spread

How salted maple spread across Gold Coast

3suburbs with cafes posting it

By Nov 2026 (so far)

Jun 2026Nov 2026 so far
Bars: Gold Coast cafes posting it each month

Salted maple Gold Coast FAQs

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.

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What is salted maple?

Maple syrup with a pinch of salt, most often whipped into the cold foam on an iced coffee or matcha: sweet and salty, close to salted caramel. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 3 Gold Coast cafes across 3 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 2 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.

Where can I get salted maple in Gold Coast?

It is on 1 Gold Coast cafe menu right now, including KOVI Cafe in Ormeau. 1 more cafe has posted it, though it is not on its 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.

What else is salted maple called?

Gold Coast cafes also sell salted maple as "Salted Maple Cream Foam". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafes' own posts and menus.

Where in Australia is salted maple biggest?

Of the cities The Froth reads, Gold Coast has it at the biggest share of cafes: 1% of Gold Coast cafes in the last 90 days, against 0.8% in Adelaide and 0.8% in Brisbane.

When did salted maple first show up in Gold Coast cafes?

The earliest Gold Coast cafe post or customer review about salted maple that The Froth has is from 10 Sep 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.

What is in a salted maple cold brew?

A typical salted maple cold brew, drawn from Gold Coast cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with sea salt flakes (a pinch on top), salted maple foam (milk and cream whipped cold with maple syrup and a pinch of salt, about 2 cm), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured) and cold brew (about 250 ml over ice). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.

How does The Froth count this?

A cafe counts for salted maple 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.