It is on 44% of cafes in the last 90 days and holding steady.
At least 28% of the cafes we see well had it in the last 90 days, and nothing says it is rising, peaking or fading.
The stages run Emerging, Rising, Peaking, Mainstream, Fading. A trend can skip a stage or move back.
Finely ground Japanese green tea whisked with water and usually poured over milk, hot or iced: grassy, a little bitter and bright green.
Drawn as an iced matcha latte, the drink Gold Coast cafes most often put it in.
178 Gold Coast cafes: 128 on their menus, 50 from posts.
Showing 10 of 178 cafes, cheapest first
Gold Coast cafes with Matcha on their menus or in their posts.
Each bar is the Gold Coast cafes whose menu lists matcha 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.
It's mainstream now: well established.
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.
Gold Coast searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
3,860 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 Gold Coast that posted anything that month, how many posted matcha, 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.
175 per 1,000 in Oct 2026, 4.4× vs Jun 2026
Cafe menus listing it now, Gold Coast.
128 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.
54suburbs 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.
10 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Matcha is on 128 Gold Coast cafe menus and has been posted by cafes in 54 Gold Coast suburbs.
Finely ground Japanese green tea whisked with water and usually poured over milk, hot or iced: grassy, a little bitter and bright green. In all our data to 15 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 252 Gold Coast cafes across 54 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 178 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
It is on 128 Gold Coast cafe menus right now, including Caffeination Burleigh in Burleigh Heads, Paradox Coffee Roasters Cafe in Broadbeach, The Mill Bakery Paradise Point in Paradise Point and Chut & Co in Mermaid Beach. 50 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.
The typical matcha latte, regular price is $6.00, from 66 Gold Coast cafe menus as of 14 Nov 2026. Most charge between $5 and $7; the lowest we have seen is $4.50 and the highest $9.10.
Of the cities The Froth reads, Gold Coast has it at the biggest share of cafes: 44% of Gold Coast cafes in the last 90 days, against 43% in Brisbane and 42% in Melbourne.
It is well established rather than growing fast. The Froth rates matcha as Mainstream as of 15 Nov 2026: it is on 44% of cafes in the last 90 days and holding steady. In the 90 days to 15 Nov 2026, 44% 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, 22 of the same cafes had it, against 29 in the 90 days before (down 24%). Gold Coast searches for it were down 4% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
There were 3,190 searches for matcha 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 1,810 searches (Dec 2024) to 3,860 (Jul 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Gold Coast.
The earliest Gold Coast cafe post or customer review about matcha that The Froth has is from 24 Dec 2023. 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 typical iced matcha latte, drawn from Gold Coast cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with whisked matcha (2 to 4 g of matcha whisked with 60 ml of warm water, poured on last), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured) and cold milk (about 200 ml, often oat, lightly sweetened). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.
A cafe counts for matcha 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.