Part of the Matcha trend
The earliest review we have is from 30 Sep 2026, less than four months ago.
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.
Matcha poured over strawberry milk or strawberry puree and ice, in pink, white and green layers: sweet and fruity against the grassy tea.
5 Darwin cafes: 4 on their menus, 1 from posts.
5 cafes, cheapest first
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Darwin cafes with Strawberry matcha on their menus or in their posts.
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.
4 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.
9suburbs 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.
7 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Strawberry matcha is on 4 Darwin cafe menus and has been seen at cafes in 9 Darwin suburbs.
Matcha poured over strawberry milk or strawberry puree and ice, in pink, white and green layers: sweet and fruity against the grassy tea. A typical strawberry matcha, drawn from Darwin cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with whisked matcha (poured over the back of a spoon so it floats), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured), cold milk (about 180 ml, poured slowly so it sits on the puree) and strawberry puree (crushed strawberries cooked down with sugar, 2 to 3 spoonfuls). 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 8 Darwin cafes across 9 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 5 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
It is on 4 Darwin cafe menus right now, including The Harvest Press in Darwin City, Besser in Winnellie, MEOW WAFFEE - Meow Waffles & Coffee in Darwin City and The Cafe at Harry's Place in Tiwi. 1 more cafe has posted it, though it is not on its current menu. 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.
It is early days. The Froth rates strawberry matcha as Emerging as of 14 Nov 2026: the earliest review we have is from 30 Sep 2026, less than four months ago. In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 13% 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, 1 of the same cafes had it, against none in the 90 days before. Darwin searches for it were down 56% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
It is on a bigger share of Canberra cafes: 15% against Darwin's 13%, over the last 90 days.
There were 10 searches for strawberry matcha 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 (Dec 2024) to 40 (Sep 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Darwin.
The earliest Darwin customer review about strawberry matcha that The Froth has is from 30 Sep 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.
A cafe counts for strawberry matcha 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.