Searches in Adelaide are up 1,135% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025), though too few of the same cafes have it to read a change (4, against none in the 90 days before).
At least 10 cafes had it in the last 90 days, and either the number of the same cafes with it grew by a quarter or more on the 90 days before (counting only cafes we have read through both periods, and at least 10 of them), or it is new among them, or Adelaide searches rose by a quarter or more while those cafes held steady.
The stages run Emerging, Rising, Peaking, Mainstream, Fading. A trend can skip a stage or move back.
Cold milk or cream whipped until thick and spooned over an iced coffee or matcha, often flavoured with vanilla, salted maple or honey: sweet, airy and slow to sink in.
55 Adelaide cafes: 15 on their menus, 40 from posts.
Showing 10 of 55 cafes, cheapest first
Adelaide cafes with Cold foam on their menus or in their posts.
Each bar is the Adelaide cafes whose menu lists cold foam 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.
Yes, it's rising.
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
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
First Adelaide review in our data.
1,220 searches, the most yet.
Tap a number for what changed then.
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Cafe menus listing it now, Adelaide.
15 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.
34suburbs 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.
10 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Cold foam is on 15 Adelaide cafe menus and has been seen at cafes in 34 Adelaide suburbs, while Adelaide searches for it rose 1,135% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025).
Cold milk or cream whipped until thick and spooned over an iced coffee or matcha, often flavoured with vanilla, salted maple or honey: sweet, airy and slow to sink in. A typical cold foam, drawn from Adelaide cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with cold foam (skim milk whipped cold with a little syrup, about 2 cm, spooned on last), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured) and iced coffee (cold brew or a long black over ice, about 250 ml). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 40 Adelaide cafes across 34 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 55 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
It is on 15 Adelaide cafe menus right now, including The Other Ostrich Cafe in Hawthorn, The Haus Restaurant in Hahndorf, Yugen Art & Coffee in Goodwood and Tonino in Goodwood. 40 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 average is $10.69, from 8 Adelaide cafe menus as of 15 Nov 2026. Most charge between $8.20 and $13.30; the lowest we have seen is $7.50 and the highest $14.
It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 18% against Adelaide's 6%, over the last 90 days.
Yes. The Froth rates cold foam as Rising as of 14 Nov 2026: searches in Adelaide are up 1,135% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025), though too few of the same cafes have it to read a change (4, against none in the 90 days before). In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 6% 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, 4 of the same cafes had it, against none in the 90 days before. Adelaide searches for it were up 1135% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
There were 1,220 searches for cold foam 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 40 searches (Jan 2025) to 1,220 (Oct 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Adelaide.
The earliest Adelaide customer review about cold foam that The Froth has is from 26 Jun 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.
A cafe counts for cold foam 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.