Black sesame in Darwin
Emerging
Only one cafe has it so far.
Fewer than 5 Darwin cafes have it, or the first review we have is under 120 days old. 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.
Roasted black sesame ground to a paste and stirred into lattes and matcha: nutty, toasty and a little bitter, and it turns the drink grey.
Where to get black sesame in Darwin
We haven't seen it on a Darwin cafe menu or in a Darwin cafe's own post yet. Check back soon.
Is black sesame still growing in Darwin?
It's emerging: early days yet.
About Darwin's figures
Darwin's figures come from Google reviews and cafe menus (56 Darwin cafes with a review or menu in the last 90 days). We don't read Darwin cafes' posts yet, so this is a small sample and a drink shows up here later than it would in posts.
How black sesame spread across Darwin
1suburb with cafes that have it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Darwin cafes with a customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
Black sesame Darwin FAQs
Data updated 14 Nov 2026.
Too early to quote: one cafe has had it so far. A quote will appear here once 5 cafes have.
What is black sesame?
Roasted black sesame ground to a paste and stirred into lattes and matcha: nutty, toasty and a little bitter, and it turns the drink grey. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 1 Darwin cafe across 1 suburb, in Google reviews and menus.
When did black sesame first show up in Darwin cafes?
The earliest Darwin customer review about black sesame that The Froth has is from 3 Oct 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.
How does The Froth count this?
A cafe counts for black sesame from the first Google review we found that mentions it, and while it is on the cafe's current menu. Shares are of the cafes we see well: those with 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 new reviews or menus (14 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Darwin with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.
Where in Australia is black sesame biggest?
It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 1.5% against Darwin's 0%, over the last 90 days.