Only 3 cafes have it so far.
Fewer than 5 Melbourne 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.
A floral syrup made from elderflowers, mixed into sodas, iced teas and cold foams: light, sweet and perfumed.
A floral syrup made from elderflowers, mixed into sodas, iced teas and cold foams: light, sweet and perfumed.
Drawn as an elderflower soda, the drink Melbourne cafes most often put it in.
Illustrative: a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.
Where to get one3 Melbourne cafes have it on their menus. Prices are from those menus and may have changed.
3suburbs 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.
2 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Data updated 13 Nov 2026.
Too early to quote: 3 cafes have had it so far. A quote will appear here once 5 cafes have.
A floral syrup made from elderflowers, mixed into sodas, iced teas and cold foams: light, sweet and perfumed. In all our data to 13 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 3 Melbourne cafes across 3 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 3 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu.
It is on 3 Melbourne cafe menus right now, including Livingstone in South Yarra, Café Mellow Fellow in Richmond and The Midday Workspace in Carlton. 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.
Melbourne cafes also sell elderflower as "Elderflower Foam" and "Elderflower Lemonade". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafes' own posts and menus.
It is on a bigger share of Hobart cafes: 1.1% against Melbourne's 0.2%, over the last 90 days.
The earliest Melbourne cafe post or customer review about elderflower that The Froth has is from 29 May 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 typical elderflower soda, drawn from Melbourne cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with mint (a sprig on top), lemon wheel (a slice on the rim), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured), soda water (about 200 ml, poured over the ice) and elderflower cordial (about 30 ml). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.
A cafe counts for elderflower 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.