Searches in Sydney are up 28% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025), though too few of the same cafes have it to read a change (1, against 1 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 Sydney 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.
Dried hibiscus flowers brewed into a deep red tea, served iced or topped up with lemonade or soda: tart, a little like cranberry.
Dried hibiscus flowers brewed into a deep red tea, served iced or topped up with lemonade or soda: tart, a little like cranberry.
Drawn as a hibiscus iced tea, the drink Sydney cafes most often put it in.
Illustrative: a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.
Where to get one22 Sydney cafes: 18 on their menus, 4 from posts. Prices are from the menus and may have changed.
Showing 10 of 22 cafes, cheapest first
Sydney cafes with Hibiscus on their menus or in their posts.
The flavours on Sydney cafe menus that list hibiscus, most cafes first, with the menu line most of them use. A chain counts as one cafe however many shops it has.
Yes, it's rising.
Sydney searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
First Sydney cafe post or review in our data.
Share of each city's cafes posting it, last 90 days.
Of every search for it in Australia, how many come from Sydney.
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
18suburbs 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.
13 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Data updated 14 Nov 2026.
Hibiscus is on 18 Sydney cafe menus and has been posted by cafes in 18 Sydney suburbs, while Sydney searches for it rose 28% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025).
Dried hibiscus flowers brewed into a deep red tea, served iced or topped up with lemonade or soda: tart, a little like cranberry. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 21 Sydney cafes across 18 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 22 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
It is on 18 Sydney cafe menus right now, including FlorisTea - Flower Market and Tea House in Liverpool, VIE market | grocer | kitchen | wellness bar | organic produce | GF VG treats | gifts | coffee & matcha till late in Manly, Bloodhound Espresso in Darlinghurst and Devon Cafe Barangaroo in Barangaroo. 4 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 $7.92, from 7 Sydney cafe menus as of 14 Nov 2026. Most charge between $6.17 and $9.70; the lowest we have seen is $5 and the highest $10.
It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 2.3% against Sydney's 1%, over the last 90 days.
Sydney cafes also sell hibiscus as "Iced Hibiscus Tea Lemonade", "Hibiscus Iced Tea", "Hibiscus Tea", "Hibiscus Soda", "Hibiscus Grapefruit Tea", "Hibiscus Chamomile Honey Tea", "Hibiscus Citrus Iced Tea" and "Hibiscus Lemonade". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafes' own posts and menus.
Yes. The Froth rates hibiscus as Rising as of 14 Nov 2026: searches in Sydney are up 28% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025), though too few of the same cafes have it to read a change (1, against 1 in the 90 days before). In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 1% of the Sydney cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 3,099 cafes we have followed through both periods, 1 of the same cafes had it, against 1 in the 90 days before. Sydney searches for it were up 28% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
There were 100 searches for hibiscus 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 40 searches (Aug 2026) to 150 (Mar 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Sydney.
The earliest Sydney cafe post or customer review about hibiscus that The Froth has is from 2 May 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 typical hibiscus iced tea, drawn from Sydney cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with straw (paper or reusable), mint (a few leaves), citrus wheel (lime or orange on the rim), ice (a full cup of it) and hibiscus tea (dried hibiscus flowers steeped, sweetened and chilled, about 300 ml). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.
A cafe counts for hibiscus 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 (14 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.