Only 3 cafes have it so far.
Fewer than 5 Brisbane cafes have it, or the first cafe post or review we have is under 120 days old, or creators are posting it before any cafe has it. 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.
It's emerging: early days yet.
Brisbane searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
First Brisbane cafe post or review in our data.
420 searches, the busiest month.
Tap a number for what changed then.
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Of the cafes in Brisbane that posted anything that month, how many posted kaya toast, per 1,000 of them.
It is a share, not a count, so it does not grow just because we follow more cafes. It only grows when more of the cafes we follow take it up.
The month in progress shows here once it is complete, so a part month never reads as a drop. A month with too few cafes posting is left out.
0.0 per 1,000 in Oct 2026
Cafe menus listing it now, Brisbane.
1 cafe menu
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.
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
3suburbs with cafes posting it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Brisbane cafes with a post or customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
1 suburb is known only from a menu, which we can't date, so it counts in the last month.
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 Brisbane cafes' own posts, 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 Brisbane cafes across 3 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 1 in "Where to get one" are the cafe with it on its current menu.
It is on 1 Brisbane cafe menu right now, including Project Blue Cafe in Taringa. 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.
There were 420 searches for kaya toast in Brisbane in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 180 searches (Dec 2024) to 420 (Aug 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Brisbane.
It is on a bigger share of Hobart cafes: 0.8% against Brisbane's 0.1%, over the last 90 days.
The earliest Brisbane cafe post or customer review about kaya toast that The Froth has is from 29 Jan 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 kaya toast from the first public post or customer review we found about it, the cafe's own post or a customer's, and while it is on the cafe's current menu. Shares are of the cafes we see well: those with an Instagram post or 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 cafe posts or reviews (14 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Brisbane with all of a trend's names added up. Captions stay private; we only link to public posts. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.