Lavender in Melbourne

Lavender syrup stirred into lattes, matcha and lemonades: floral and lightly sweet, and often tinted pale purple. In all our data to 13 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 14 Melbourne cafes across 14 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 14 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.

It is on 12 Melbourne cafe menus right now, including Tokyo Lamington Carlton in Carlton, Bal Bakes in Craigieburn, Autumn Leaves Melbourne in Flemington and Bola Bake in Airport West. 2 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.

Melbourne cafes also sell lavender as "Lavender Latte", "Espresso With Lavender", "Iced Lavender Latte", "Lavender Green Tea" and "Lavender Oat Milk Latte". 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 0.6%, over the last 90 days.

It is early days. The Froth rates lavender as Emerging as of 13 Nov 2026: it is on a small share of cafes (0.6% in the last 90 days) and holding steady, and searches in Melbourne are down 35% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025). In the 90 days to 13 Nov 2026, 0.6% 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, 1 of the same cafes had it, against 3 in the 90 days before. Melbourne searches for it were down 35% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.

There were 50 searches for lavender 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 30 searches (Dec 2024) to 110 (May 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Melbourne.

The earliest Melbourne cafe post or customer review about lavender that The Froth has is from 20 Feb 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 lavender latte, drawn from Melbourne cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with lavender sprig (sometimes laid across the top), dried lavender (a few buds, for the smell more than the taste), milk foam (about 1 cm), espresso and milk (one shot with steamed milk) and lavender syrup (about 15 ml, at the bottom of the glass). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.

A cafe counts for lavender 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.