Black sesame in Hobart

Emerging
Only one cafe has it so far.
Where to get oneHow it's trending

Roasted black sesame ground to a paste and stirred into lattes and matcha: nutty, toasty and a little bitter, and it turns the drink grey.

How a black sesame is built

This is black sesame

Roasted black sesame ground to a paste and stirred into lattes and matcha: nutty, toasty and a little bitter, and it turns the drink grey.

Drawn as a black sesame latte, the drink Hobart cafes most often put it in.

  1. Black sesame paste roasted black sesame ground with sugar or honey, 2 spoonfuls
  2. Cold milk about 200 ml, turning grey where it meets the paste
  3. Ice fills the cup before anything is poured
  4. Sesame cream cream whipped with a little of the paste; some cafes add espresso
  5. Black sesame seeds toasted, scattered on top

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

Where to get one

Where to get black sesame in Hobart

1 Hobart cafe has it on its menu. Prices are from those menus and may have changed.

1 cafe, cheapest first

  • Honey Badger Dessert CafeBattery Point · as “Black Sesame Latte”
    $7
Menus change, so check with the cafe before you go.

Hobart cafes with Black sesame on their menus or in their posts.

Trend

Is black sesame still growing in Hobart?

It's emerging: early days yet.

Hobart's figures come from Google reviews and cafe menus (89 Hobart cafes with a review or menu in the last 90 days). We don't read Hobart cafes' posts yet, so this is a small sample and a drink shows up here later than it would in posts.

Spread

How black sesame spread across Hobart

1suburb with cafes that have it

By Nov 2026 (so far)

Jun 2026Nov 2026 so far
Bars: Hobart cafes reviewed with it each month

Black sesame Hobart FAQs

Data updated 13 Nov 2026.

Too early to quote: one cafe has had it so far. A quote will appear here once 5 cafes have.

See how black sesame is doing across Australia

What is black sesame?

Roasted black sesame ground to a paste and stirred into lattes and matcha: nutty, toasty and a little bitter, and it turns the drink grey. In all our data to 13 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 1 Hobart cafe across 1 suburb, in Google reviews and menus. The 1 in "Where to get one" are the cafe with it on its current menu.

Where can I get black sesame in Hobart?

It is on 1 Hobart cafe menu right now, including Honey Badger Dessert Cafe in Battery Point. 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 black sesame called?

Hobart cafes also sell black sesame as "Black Sesame Latte". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafe menus and Google reviews.

Where in Australia is black sesame biggest?

It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 1.6% against Hobart's 1.1%, over the last 90 days.

When did black sesame first show up in Hobart cafes?

The earliest Hobart customer review about black sesame that The Froth has is from 3 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 black sesame latte?

A typical black sesame latte, drawn from Hobart cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with black sesame seeds (toasted, scattered on top), sesame cream (cream whipped with a little of the paste; some cafes add espresso), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured), cold milk (about 200 ml, turning grey where it meets the paste) and black sesame paste (roasted black sesame ground with sugar or honey, 2 spoonfuls). 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 black sesame from the first Google review we found that mentions it, and while it is on the cafe's current menu. Shares are of the cafes we see well: those with 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 new reviews or menus (13 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Hobart with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.