Black sesame in Adelaide
Emerging
It is on a small share of cafes (0.9% in the last 90 days) and holding steady.
Fewer than 5 Adelaide cafes have it, or the first review we have is under 120 days old. 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.
5Adelaide cafe menus list it
40Adelaide searches in Oct 2026
Roasted black sesame ground to a paste and stirred into lattes and matcha: nutty, toasty and a little bitter, and it turns the drink grey.
Is black sesame still growing in Adelaide?
It's emerging: early days yet.
About Adelaide's figures
Adelaide's figures come from Google reviews and cafe menus (435 Adelaide cafes with a review or menu in the last 90 days). We don't read Adelaide cafes' posts yet, so this is a small sample and a drink shows up here later than it would in posts.
Adelaide searches a month
Apr 2026
First Adelaide review in our data.
Tap a number for what changed then.
How Adelaide compares
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Adelaide's share of Australia's searches
3%Aug to Oct 2026Down from 4% in Aug to Oct 2025 (the green tick).On menus
Cafe menus listing it now, Adelaide.
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.
Adelaide, Australia and the world
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
What black sesame is in
Every cafe menu that names black sesame is sorted into one kind of drink by its words: a burger, a toastie and a wrap are all "burgers, sandwiches & wraps".
Each shop counts once, under the drink we list it for below, so a cafe with black sesame on several drinks shows under one of them.
The usual price is the middle price of those menus, with a chain's price counted once so one chain can't set it, shown when at least three cafes list a price.
- Coffee2 cafes
Black sesame latte
- Matcha2 cafes
Black Sesame Hojicha Salted Caramel Flan
- Other drinks1 cafe
Where to get black sesame in Adelaide
5 Adelaide cafes have it on their menus.
How black sesame spread across Adelaide
3suburbs with cafes that have it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Adelaide cafes with a customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
2 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Black sesame Adelaide FAQs
Black sesame is on 5 Adelaide cafe menus and has been seen at cafes in 3 Adelaide suburbs.
What is black sesame?
Roasted black sesame ground to a paste and stirred into lattes and matcha: nutty, toasty and a little bitter, and it turns the drink grey. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 6 Adelaide cafes across 3 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 5 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu.
What drinks is black sesame in?
Across 5 cafe menus in Adelaide that list black sesame as of 14 Nov 2026, the most common drinks are coffee (2 cafes) and matcha (2 cafes).
Where can I get black sesame in Adelaide?
It is on 5 Adelaide cafe menus right now, including LLaw Boutique Restaurant Port Plaza in Port Adelaide, Seoul Sisters in Adelaide, Lunar Landing in Brompton and fold. in Hindmarsh. 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.
What else is black sesame called?
Adelaide cafes also sell black sesame as "Black Sesame Latte" and "Black Sesame Hojicha". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafe menus and Google reviews.
Where in Australia is black sesame biggest?
It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 1.5% against Adelaide's 0.9%, over the last 90 days.
Is black sesame getting more popular in Adelaide?
It is early days. The Froth rates black sesame as Emerging as of 14 Nov 2026: it is on a small share of cafes (0.9% in the last 90 days) and holding steady. In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 0.9% of the Adelaide cafes we see well (a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 728 cafes we have followed through both periods, 1 of the same cafes had it, against none in the 90 days before. Adelaide searches for it were down 8% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
How many people search for black sesame in Adelaide?
There were 40 searches for black sesame in Adelaide 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 70 (Apr 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Adelaide.
When did black sesame first show up in Adelaide cafes?
The earliest Adelaide customer review about black sesame that The Froth has is from 26 Apr 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.
How does The Froth count this?
A cafe counts for black sesame from the first Google review we found that mentions it, and while it is on the cafe's current menu. Shares are of the cafes we see well: those with 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 new reviews or menus (14 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Adelaide with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.