Only 4 cafes have it so far.
Fewer than 5 Gold Coast 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.
5 Gold Coast cafes have it on their menus.
It's emerging: early days yet.
This is a small sample: 338 Gold Coast cafes with an Instagram post or a menu in the last 90 days, so a few cafes can move a figure.
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Cafe menus listing it now, Gold Coast.
5 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.
5suburbs with cafes posting it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Gold Coast cafes with a post or customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
5 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Data updated 15 Nov 2026.
Too early to quote: 4 cafes have had it so far. A quote will appear here once 5 cafes have.
It is on 5 Gold Coast cafe menus right now, including Paddock Bakery in Burleigh Heads, Signature Cafe Varsity Lakes in Varsity Lakes, The Paddock Bakery in Broadbeach and Pi & Pine Cafe in Helensvale. 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.
Gold Coast cafes also sell coconut water espresso as "coconut iced long black" and "Coconut Americano". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafes' own posts and menus.
A typical coconut water espresso, drawn from Gold Coast cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with espresso (a double shot poured slowly over the ice so it floats), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured) and coconut water (chilled, about 180 ml, poured over the ice first). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.
Of the cities The Froth reads, Gold Coast has it at the biggest share of cafes: 1.2% of Gold Coast cafes in the last 90 days, against 0.2% in Sydney and 0.2% in Melbourne.
A cafe counts for coconut water espresso 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 (15 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Gold Coast 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.