No cafe has had it in the last 90 days.
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 Darwin cafes most often serve it.
We haven't seen it on a Darwin cafe menu or in a Darwin cafe's own post yet. Check back soon.
Not at the moment: it's fading.
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
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
First Darwin review in our data.
520 searches, the busiest month.
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.
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.
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.
Chocolate filled with pistachio cream and kataifi. 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.
There were 50 searches for Dubai chocolate 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 50 searches (Oct 2026) to 520 (Jun 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Darwin.
The earliest Darwin customer review about Dubai chocolate that The Froth has is from 3 Apr 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.
It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 2.7% against Darwin's 0%, over the last 90 days.
A typical Dubai chocolate bar, drawn from Darwin cafes' menus and reviews, 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 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.