The earliest cafe post or review we have is from 10 Nov 2026, less than four months ago.
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.
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.
6 Brisbane cafes: 3 on their menus, 3 from posts.
6 cafes, cheapest first
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Brisbane cafes with Protein coffee on their menus or in their posts.
It's emerging: early days yet.
Brisbane searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
720 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 protein coffee, 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.
3 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.
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
5suburbs 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.
4 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Protein coffee is on 3 Brisbane cafe menus and has been posted by cafes in 5 Brisbane suburbs, while Brisbane searches for it rose 41% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025).
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 Brisbane cafes' own posts, 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 5 Brisbane cafes across 5 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 6 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
It is on 3 Brisbane cafe menus right now, including Milk and Froth Clayfield in Clayfield, Fonzie Abbott in Albion and Sip On 29 in Eight Mile Plains. 3 more cafes have posted it, though it is not on their 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.
Brisbane cafes also sell protein coffee as "protein". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafes' own posts and menus.
It is on a bigger share of Darwin cafes: 3.6% against Brisbane's 0.6%, over the last 90 days.
It is early days. The Froth rates protein coffee as Emerging as of 14 Nov 2026: the earliest cafe post or review we have is from 10 Nov 2026, less than four months ago. In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 0.6% of the Brisbane cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in that time) had it. Brisbane searches for it were up 41% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
There were 590 searches for protein coffee 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 170 searches (Dec 2024) to 720 (Jan 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Brisbane.
The earliest Brisbane cafe post or customer review about protein coffee that The Froth has is from 10 Nov 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 protein coffee 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.