More of the same cafes have it (25, up from 15 in the 90 days before), and searches in Melbourne are up 41% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025).
At least 10 cafes had it in the last 90 days, and either the number of the same cafes with it grew by a quarter or more on the 90 days before (counting only cafes we have read through both periods, and at least 10 of them), or it is new among them, or Melbourne searches rose by a quarter or more while those cafes held steady.
The stages run Emerging, Rising, Peaking, Mainstream, Fading. A trend can skip a stage or move back.
Coffee steeped in cold water for hours rather than brewed hot, then poured over ice: smoother and less bitter than espresso over ice.
Coffee steeped in cold water for hours rather than brewed hot, then poured over ice: smoother and less bitter than espresso over ice.
Illustrative: a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.
Where to get one309 Melbourne cafes: 264 on their menus, 45 from posts. Prices are from the menus and may have changed.
Showing 10 of 309 cafes, cheapest first
Melbourne cafes with Cold brew on their menus or in their posts.
The flavours on Melbourne cafe menus that list cold brew, most cafes first, with the menu line most of them use. A chain counts as one cafe however many shops it has.
Yes, it's rising.
Melbourne searches a month
2,900 searches, the most yet.
Share of each city's cafes posting it, last 90 days.
Of every search for it in Australia, how many come from Melbourne.
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
151suburbs with cafes posting it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Melbourne cafes with a post or customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
80 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Each bar is the share of an area's cafes posting it in the last 90 days, from cafe and customer posts only. Tap an area to see it.
Data updated 13 Nov 2026.
Cold brew is on 264 Melbourne cafe menus and has been posted by cafes in 151 Melbourne suburbs, while Melbourne searches for it rose 41% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025).
Coffee steeped in cold water for hours rather than brewed hot, then poured over ice: smoother and less bitter than espresso over ice. A typical cold brew, drawn from Melbourne cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with straw (paper or reusable), ice (a full cup of it) and cold brew (coffee steeped cold for 12 to 18 hours, about 250 ml, served black). 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 333 Melbourne cafes across 151 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 309 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
It is on 264 Melbourne cafe menus right now, including Noto Pantry in Mount Waverley, The Train Yard cafe & Events space in Heidelberg, Creme Port Melbourne in Port Melbourne and Cornershop Yarraville in Yarraville. 45 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 $6.75, from 197 Melbourne cafe menus as of 14 Nov 2026. Most charge between $5.50 and $8.50; the lowest we have seen is $4 and the highest $16.
It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 25% against Melbourne's 15%, over the last 90 days.
Yes. The Froth rates cold brew as Rising as of 13 Nov 2026: more of the same cafes have it (25, up from 15 in the 90 days before), and searches in Melbourne are up 41% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025). In the 90 days to 13 Nov 2026, 15% of the Melbourne cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 1,204 cafes we have followed through both periods, 25 of the same cafes had it, against 15 in the 90 days before (up 67%). Melbourne searches for it were up 41% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
There were 2,900 searches for cold brew in Melbourne in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 1,300 searches (May 2025) to 2,900 (Oct 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Melbourne.
The earliest Melbourne cafe post or customer review about cold brew that The Froth has is from 24 Nov 2017. 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 cold brew 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 Melbourne 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.