It is on a small share of cafes (0.2% in the last 90 days) and holding steady.
Fewer than 5 Sydney cafes have it, or the first cafe post or review we have is under 120 days old, or creators are posting it before any cafe has it. 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.
A floral syrup made from elderflowers, mixed into sodas, iced teas and cold foams: light, sweet and perfumed.
A floral syrup made from elderflowers, mixed into sodas, iced teas and cold foams: light, sweet and perfumed.
Drawn as an elderflower soda, the drink Sydney cafes most often put it in.
Illustrative: a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.
Where to get one6 Sydney cafes: 1 on its menu, 5 from posts. Prices are from the menus and may have changed.
6 cafes, cheapest first
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Sydney cafes with Elderflower on their menus or in their posts.
6suburbs with cafes posting it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Sydney cafes with a post or customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
1 suburb is known only from a menu, which we can't date, so it counts in the last month.
Data updated 13 Nov 2026.
Elderflower is on 1 Sydney cafe menu and has been posted by cafes in 6 Sydney suburbs.
A floral syrup made from elderflowers, mixed into sodas, iced teas and cold foams: light, sweet and perfumed. In all our data to 13 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 7 Sydney cafes across 6 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 6 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
It is on 1 Sydney cafe menu right now, including The Jade Teahouse at Camellia Gardens in Caringbah South. 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.
Sydney cafes also sell elderflower as "Elderflower Foam", "Elderflower Green Tea", "Elderflower Matcha" and "Elderflower Soda". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafes' own posts and menus.
It is on a bigger share of Hobart cafes: 1.1% against Sydney's 0.2%, over the last 90 days.
It is early days. The Froth rates elderflower as Emerging as of 13 Nov 2026: it is on a small share of cafes (0.2% in the last 90 days) and holding steady. In the 90 days to 13 Nov 2026, 0.2% of the Sydney cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 3,091 cafes we have followed through both periods, 1 of the same cafes had it, against 2 in the 90 days before. Sydney searches for it were level in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
There were 30 searches for elderflower in Sydney 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 (Jan 2025) to 40 (Jul 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Sydney.
The earliest Sydney cafe post or customer review about elderflower that The Froth has is from 19 Jan 2025. 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 elderflower soda, drawn from Sydney cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with mint (a sprig on top), lemon wheel (a slice on the rim), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured), soda water (about 200 ml, poured over the ice) and elderflower cordial (about 30 ml). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.
A cafe counts for elderflower 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 (13 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Sydney 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.