Fewer of the same cafes had it lately (6, down from 11 in the 90 days before), and searches in Sydney are down 79% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025).
No cafe had it in the last 90 days, or the number of the same cafes with it fell by a quarter or more on the 90 days before (from at least 10 cafes) while searches did not rise, or searches are under half their 12-month high and cafes are not picking it up.
The stages run Emerging, Rising, Peaking, Mainstream, Fading. A trend can skip a stage or move back.
Chocolate filled with pistachio cream and kataifi.
Drawn as a Dubai chocolate bar, the way Sydney cafes most often serve it.
68 Sydney cafes: 24 on their menus, 44 from posts.
Showing 10 of 68 cafes, cheapest first
Sydney cafes with Dubai chocolate on their menus or in their posts.
Each bar is the Sydney cafes whose menu lists Dubai chocolate in that flavour. Under each flavour is the menu line most of those cafes use.
A chain counts as one cafe however many shops it has.
Not at the moment: it's fading.
Sydney searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
64,900 searches, the busiest month.
Tap a number for what changed then.
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Of the cafes in Sydney that posted anything that month, how many posted Dubai chocolate, per 1,000 of them.
It is a share, not a count, so it does not grow just because we follow more cafes. It only grows when more of the cafes we follow take it up.
The month in progress shows here once it is complete, so a part month never reads as a drop. A month with too few cafes posting is left out.
7.0 per 1,000 in Oct 2026, 2.1× vs Jun 2026
Cafe menus listing it now, Sydney.
24 cafe menus
We started reading cafe menus in late 2026. Cafes adding and dropping it each month show here once the first whole month of menu reads is in.
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
106suburbs with cafes posting it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Sydney cafes with a post or customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
32 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.
Dubai chocolate is on 24 Sydney cafe menus and has been posted by cafes in 106 Sydney suburbs.
Chocolate filled with pistachio cream and kataifi. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 97 Sydney cafes across 106 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 68 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
It is on 24 Sydney cafe menus right now, including Profiterole Patisserie Guildford in Guildford, Profiterole Patisserie Mays Hill in Mays Hill, Profiterole Patisserie Melrose Park in Ermington and Profiterole Patisserie Penrith in Penrith. 44 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 $9.76, from 15 Sydney cafe menus as of 15 Nov 2026. Most charge between $6 and $17.20; the lowest we have seen is $6 and the highest $20.
It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 2.7% against Sydney's 1.8%, over the last 90 days.
Not at the moment. The Froth rates Dubai chocolate as Fading as of 14 Nov 2026: fewer of the same cafes had it lately (6, down from 11 in the 90 days before), and searches in Sydney are down 79% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025). In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 1.8% of the Sydney cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 3,110 cafes we have followed through both periods, 6 of the same cafes had it, against 11 in the 90 days before (down 45%). Sydney searches for it were down 79% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
There were 6,810 searches for Dubai chocolate in Sydney in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 6,810 searches (Sep 2026) to 64,900 (May 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Sydney.
The earliest Sydney cafe post or customer review about Dubai chocolate that The Froth has is from 23 Jul 2024. 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 Dubai chocolate bar, drawn from Sydney cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with green drizzle (white chocolate coloured green, piped over), chocolate top (more chocolate poured over to seal it), pistachio kataifi (pistachio cream folded through toasted kataifi pastry, for the crunch) and chocolate shell (milk chocolate set in a deep bar mould). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical plate, not one cafe's recipe.
A cafe counts for Dubai chocolate 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 (14 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Sydney 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.