Pandan in Melbourne

The juice or syrup of the pandan leaf, mixed into lattes, matcha and coconut drinks: grassy and sweet, a little like vanilla, and bright green. In all our data to 13 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 19 Melbourne cafes across 14 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 9 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.

It is on 5 Melbourne cafe menus right now, including NOOK179 in St Kilda, Hideaway Melbourne in Melbourne, Miilk Cake Studio in Melbourne and Highlands Dessert Coffee House in St Albans. 4 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 pandan as "Pandan Jelly Latte", "Pandan Latte", "Pandan Coconut Latte", "Pandan Coffee", "Pandan Foam", "Pandan Matcha", "Pandan Milk Tea" and "Pandan Viet Coffee", plus 1 other name. 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 Canberra cafes: 1.2% against Melbourne's 0.8%, over the last 90 days.

It is early days. The Froth rates pandan as Emerging as of 13 Nov 2026: it is on a small share of cafes (0.8% in the last 90 days) and holding steady. In the 90 days to 13 Nov 2026, 0.8% 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, none of the same cafes had it, against 1 in the 90 days before. Melbourne searches for it were down 10% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.

There were 40 searches for pandan 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 10 searches (Dec 2024) to 50 (Jan 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Melbourne.

The earliest Melbourne cafe post or customer review about pandan that The Froth has is from 15 Feb 2023. 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 pandan latte, drawn from Melbourne cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with pandan leaf (a knotted leaf, mostly for the smell), espresso (a double shot poured on last), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured) and pandan milk (milk with pandan syrup, often with coconut, about 200 ml). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.

A cafe counts for pandan 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.