Only 2 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.
Iced coffee or a latte with protein added, as a scoop of protein powder or a ready-made protein milk: thicker and a little sweeter than a plain iced coffee.
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.
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Cafe menus listing it now, Darwin.
2 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.
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.
2 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Data updated 14 Nov 2026.
Too early to quote: 2 cafes have had it so far. A quote will appear here once 5 cafes have.
Iced coffee or a latte with protein added, as a scoop of protein powder or a ready-made protein milk: thicker and a little sweeter than a plain iced coffee. A typical protein coffee, drawn from Darwin cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with straw (through the lid), espresso (a double shot over the top, about 20 g of protein all up), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured) and protein shake (a scoop of vanilla or chocolate protein blended with about 250 ml of milk). 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 2 Darwin cafes across 2 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 2 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu.
It is on 2 Darwin cafe menus right now, including Ruby G's Canteen in Coconut Grove and The Foreshore in Nightcliff. 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.
Darwin cafes also sell protein coffee as "protein". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafe menus and Google reviews.
Of the cities The Froth reads, Darwin has it at the biggest share of cafes: 3.6% of Darwin cafes in the last 90 days, against 0.6% in Brisbane and 0.3% in Perth.
A cafe counts for protein coffee 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.