Crisp toast with kaya, a coconut and pandan jam, and thick slices of cold butter, often with soft-boiled eggs.
We haven't seen it on a Gold Coast cafe menu or in a Gold Coast cafe's own post yet. Check back soon.
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.
Data updated 15 Nov 2026.
Too early to quote: 0 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 Gold Coast 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.
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 (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.
It is on a bigger share of Hobart cafes: 0.8% against Gold Coast's 0%, over the last 90 days.