Ube in Adelaide
Emerging
The earliest review we have is from 15 Aug 2026, less than four months ago.
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.
Purple yam, sweetened and used as a paste or syrup in lattes, matcha and cold foams: sweet and nutty, a little like vanilla, and bright purple.
Where to get ube in Adelaide
9 Adelaide cafes: 4 on their menus, 5 from posts.
9 cafes, A to Z
- Bubbly Tea and Coffee CoUnverifiedPrice not on the menu
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
- Bun Voyage AdelaideUnverifiedPrice not on the menu
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
- Hibernia CafePrice not on the menu
- JD Cake LabUnverifiedPrice not on the menu
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
- Late Mornings Cafe$9
- Ratio Specialty CafeUnverifiedPrice not on the menu
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
- Serendipity BrewUnverifiedPrice not on the menu
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
- Stories and morePrice not on the menu
- Yugen Art & Coffee$7.50
Adelaide cafes with Ube on their menus or in their posts.
Is ube 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
Aug 2026
First Adelaide review in our data.
Sep 2026
110 searches, the busiest month.
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
4%Aug to Oct 2026Up from 3% in Aug to Oct 2025 (the green tick).On menus
Cafe menus listing it now, Adelaide.
4 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.
How ube spread across Adelaide
8suburbs 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.
3 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Ube Adelaide FAQs
Ube is on 4 Adelaide cafe menus and has been seen at cafes in 8 Adelaide suburbs.
What is ube?
Purple yam, sweetened and used as a paste or syrup in lattes, matcha and cold foams: sweet and nutty, a little like vanilla, and bright purple. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 7 Adelaide cafes across 8 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 9 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
Where can I get ube in Adelaide?
It is on 4 Adelaide cafe menus right now, including Yugen Art & Coffee in Goodwood, Late Mornings Cafe in Adelaide, Hibernia Cafe in Magill and Stories and more in Hyde Park. 5 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.
What else is ube called?
Adelaide cafes also sell ube as "Ube Iced Latte", "Ube Latte", "Ube Matcha" and "Ube Cream Matcha". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafe menus and Google reviews.
Where in Australia is ube biggest?
It is on a bigger share of Brisbane cafes: 3.4% against Adelaide's 1.4%, over the last 90 days.
Is ube getting more popular in Adelaide?
It is early days. The Froth rates ube as Emerging as of 14 Nov 2026: the earliest review we have is from 15 Aug 2026, less than four months ago. In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 1.4% of the Adelaide cafes we see well (a current menu in that time) had it. Adelaide searches for it were up 200% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
How many people search for ube in Adelaide?
There were 90 searches for ube 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 20 searches (Dec 2024) to 110 (Sep 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Adelaide.
When did ube first show up in Adelaide cafes?
The earliest Adelaide customer review about ube that The Froth has is from 15 Aug 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 ube 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.