Hibiscus in Gold Coast
Fading
The few searches for it in Gold Coast are under half their 12-month high, and cafes are not picking it up: too few of the same cafes have it to read a change (1, against none in the 90 days before).
No cafe had it in the last 90 days, or the number of the same cafes with it fell by a quarter or more on the 90 days before (from at least 10 cafes) while searches did not rise, or searches are under half their 12-month high and cafes are not picking it up.
The stages run Emerging, Rising, Peaking, Mainstream, Fading. A trend can skip a stage or move back.
Dried hibiscus flowers brewed into a deep red tea, served iced or topped up with lemonade or soda: tart, a little like cranberry.
Where to get hibiscus in Gold Coast
9 Gold Coast cafes have it on their menus.
9 cafes, A to Z
- Castaway Coffee Bar$12
- Coffee Major$7
- Mamma G's DelicatessenPrice not on the menu
- O Bagel Broadbeach$7.50
- O Bagel Oasis Shopping Centre$7.50
- O Bagel Southport$7.50
- Paddock BakeryOne price for several drinks
- Rudy's Real food Organic Cafe$6.50
- The Paddock BakeryOne price for several drinks
Gold Coast cafes with Hibiscus on their menus or in their posts.
Flavours we're seeing
Each bar is the Gold Coast cafes whose menu lists hibiscus in that flavour. Under each flavour is the menu line most of those cafes use.
A chain counts as one cafe however many shops it has.
- Lemon“Hibiscus lemon iced tea”1 cafe
- Raspberry“Hibiscus, Raspberry & Elderflower Iced Tea”1 cafe
- Mango“Mango Hibiscus Pop”1 cafe
- Strawberry“Hibiscus Strawberry Iced Tea (Glass”1 cafe
Is hibiscus still growing in Gold Coast?
Not at the moment: it's fading.
About Gold Coast's figures
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.
How Gold Coast compares
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Cafes posting it
Per 1,000 cafes that posted that month, in Gold Coast.Of the cafes in Gold Coast that posted anything that month, how many posted hibiscus, 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
On menus
Cafe menus listing it now, Gold Coast.
9 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.
How hibiscus spread across Gold Coast
18suburbs 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.
16 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Hibiscus Gold Coast FAQs
Hibiscus is on 9 Gold Coast cafe menus and has been posted by cafes in 18 Gold Coast suburbs.
What is hibiscus?
Dried hibiscus flowers brewed into a deep red tea, served iced or topped up with lemonade or soda: tart, a little like cranberry. In all our data to 15 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 9 Gold Coast cafes across 18 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 9 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu.
Where can I get hibiscus in Gold Coast?
It is on 9 Gold Coast cafe menus right now, including Rudy's Real food Organic Cafe in Surfers Paradise, Coffee Major in Southport, O Bagel Broadbeach in Broadbeach and O Bagel Oasis Shopping Centre in Broadbeach. 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.
How much is a hibiscus in Gold Coast?
The average is $8.00, from 6 Gold Coast cafe menus as of 15 Nov 2026. Most charge between $6.75 and $9.75; the lowest we have seen is $6.50 and the highest $12.
Where in Australia is hibiscus biggest?
Of the cities The Froth reads, Gold Coast has it at the biggest share of cafes: 2.1% of Gold Coast cafes in the last 90 days, against 1.4% in Canberra and 1% in Sydney.
What else is hibiscus called?
Gold Coast cafes also sell hibiscus as "Hibiscus Tea", "Iced Hibiscus Tea Lemonade", "Hibiscus Lemon Iced Tea", "Hibiscus Iced Tea", "Hibiscus Lemonade" and "Hibiscus Strawberry Iced Tea". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafes' own posts and menus.
Is hibiscus getting more popular in Gold Coast?
Not at the moment. The Froth rates hibiscus as Fading as of 15 Nov 2026: the few searches for it in Gold Coast are under half their 12-month high, and cafes are not picking it up: too few of the same cafes have it to read a change (1, against none in the 90 days before). In the 90 days to 15 Nov 2026, 2.1% of the Gold Coast cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 450 cafes we have followed through both periods, 1 of the same cafes had it, against none in the 90 days before. Gold Coast searches for it were down 20% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
How many people search for hibiscus in Gold Coast?
There were 10 searches for hibiscus in Gold Coast 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 30 (Mar 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Gold Coast.
When did hibiscus first show up in Gold Coast cafes?
The earliest Gold Coast cafe post or customer review about hibiscus that The Froth has is from 16 Aug 2025. 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.
How does The Froth count this?
A cafe counts for hibiscus 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.