Search up by a quarter or more while cafes hold steady.
At least 10 cafes had it in the last 90 days, and either the number of the same cafes with it grew by a quarter or more on the 90 days before (counting only cafes we have read through both periods, and at least 10 of them), or it is new among them, or Darwin searches rose by a quarter or more while those cafes held steady.
The stages run Emerging, Rising, Peaking, Mainstream, Fading. A trend can skip a stage or move back.
Cold milk or cream whipped until thick and spooned over an iced coffee or matcha, often flavoured with vanilla, salted maple or honey: sweet, airy and slow to sink in.
7 Darwin cafes from posts. We haven't seen it on a current menu yet.
7 cafes, cheapest first
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Darwin cafes with Cold foam on their menus or in their posts.
Each bar is the Darwin cafes whose menu lists cold foam 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.
Yes, it's rising.
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.
Darwin searches a month
First Darwin review in our data.
100 searches, the most yet.
Tap a number for what changed then.
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
13suburbs 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.
3 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Cold foam has been seen at 14 Darwin cafes in 13 suburbs.
Cold milk or cream whipped until thick and spooned over an iced coffee or matcha, often flavoured with vanilla, salted maple or honey: sweet, airy and slow to sink in. A typical cold foam, drawn from Darwin cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with cold foam (skim milk whipped cold with a little syrup, about 2 cm, spooned on last), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured) and iced coffee (cold brew or a long black over ice, about 250 ml). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 14 Darwin cafes across 13 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 7 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
7 Darwin cafes have posted it, including The Fannie Bay Coolspot in Fannie Bay, The Harvest Press in Darwin City, Dukes Cafe + Eatery in Darwin City and The Cafe at Harry's Place in Tiwi, though we haven't seen it on a current menu yet. The "Where to get one" list on this page links each post and gives directions. Check with the cafe before you go.
Yes. The Froth rates cold foam as Rising as of 14 Nov 2026: search up by a quarter or more while cafes hold steady. In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 16% of the Darwin cafes we see well (a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 90 cafes we have followed through both periods, 3 of the same cafes had it, against none in the 90 days before. Darwin searches for it were up 450% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 18% against Darwin's 16%, over the last 90 days.
There were 100 searches for cold foam in Darwin in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 0 searches (Jan 2025) to 100 (Oct 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Darwin.
The earliest Darwin customer review about cold foam that The Froth has is from 11 Sep 2025. 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 cafe counts for cold foam 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.