Only 3 cafes have 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.
Crisp toast with kaya, a coconut and pandan jam, and thick slices of cold butter, often with soft-boiled eggs.
We haven't seen it on a Darwin cafe menu or in a Darwin cafe's own post yet. Check back soon.
It's emerging: early days yet.
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 busiest month.
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Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
2suburbs 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: 3 cafes have had it so far. A quote will appear here once 5 cafes have.
Crisp toast with kaya, a coconut and pandan jam, and thick slices of cold butter, often with soft-boiled eggs. A typical kaya toast, drawn from Darwin cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with soft-boiled eggs (two, cracked into a dish, with soy sauce and white pepper), toast, top (the top slice), cold butter (a thick slab, straight from the fridge), kaya (coconut and egg jam with pandan; some use the brown, caramel kind) and toast, bottom (thin white bread toasted crisp, the crusts cut off). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical plate, not one cafe's recipe. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 3 Darwin cafes across 2 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus.
There were 80 searches for kaya toast 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 10 searches (Jan 2025) to 100 (Jul 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Darwin.
The earliest Darwin customer review about kaya toast that The Froth has is from 17 May 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.
It is on a bigger share of Hobart cafes: 0.8% against Darwin's 0%, over the last 90 days.
A cafe counts for kaya toast 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.