Lavender in Sydney

Lavender syrup stirred into lattes, matcha and lemonades: floral and lightly sweet, and often tinted pale purple. In all our data to 13 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 6 Sydney cafes across 8 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 8 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.

It is on 5 Sydney cafe menus right now, including Tokyo Lamington & the Bakery in Marrickville, Tokyo Lamington Newtown in Newtown, Teahouse in Barangaroo and Soulte Gregory Hills in Gregory Hills. 3 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 lavender as "Lavender Cloud Dirty Soda", "Lavender Latte", "Lavender Cold Brew", "Lavender Earl Grey Latte", "Lavender Honey Matcha", "Lavender Matcha" and "Lavender Tea". 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 0.3%, over the last 90 days.

It is early days. The Froth rates lavender as Emerging as of 13 Nov 2026: the earliest cafe post or review we have is from 29 Jul 2026, less than four months ago. In the 90 days to 13 Nov 2026, 0.3% 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 1 in the 90 days before. Sydney searches for it were down 11% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.

There were 30 searches for lavender 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 (Dec 2024) to 50 (Jan 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Sydney.

The earliest Sydney cafe post or customer review about lavender that The Froth has is from 29 Jul 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 lavender latte, drawn from Sydney cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with lavender sprig (sometimes laid across the top), dried lavender (a few buds, for the smell more than the taste), milk foam (about 1 cm), espresso and milk (one shot with steamed milk) and lavender syrup (about 15 ml, at the bottom of the glass). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.

A cafe counts for lavender 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.