Pistachio in Sydney

Ground pistachio nuts worked into a paste, syrup or cream for lattes, matcha and cold foams: nutty, sweet and pale green. In all our data to 13 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 107 Sydney cafes across 126 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 165 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.

It is on 142 Sydney cafe menus right now, including Wonderwood Eatery in Lurnea, XS Espresso - UNSW in Kensington, XS Espresso Camden in Camden and XS Espresso Croydon Park in Croydon. 23 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 $7.93, from 64 Sydney cafe menus as of 14 Nov 2026. Most charge between $5.90 and $11.50; the lowest we have seen is $5.50 and the highest $13.60.

It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 5.7% against Sydney's 3.9%, over the last 90 days.

Sydney cafes also sell pistachio as "Pistachio Latte", "Pistachio Matcha", "Pistachio Cloud Iced Latte", "Pistachio Shake", "Iced Pistachio Latte", "Pistachio Foam", "Pistachio Iced Latte" and "Pistachio Cold Foam", plus 18 other names. The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafes' own posts and menus.

It is early days. The Froth rates pistachio as Emerging as of 13 Nov 2026: it is on a small share of cafes (3.9% in the last 90 days) and holding steady, and searches in Sydney are down 30% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025). In the 90 days to 13 Nov 2026, 3.9% 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, 7 of the same cafes had it, against 8 in the 90 days before. Sydney searches for it were down 30% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.

There were 170 searches for pistachio 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 110 searches (Dec 2024) to 390 (Jun 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Sydney.

The earliest Sydney cafe post or customer review about pistachio that The Froth has is from 5 Oct 2024. 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 pistachio latte, drawn from Sydney cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with crushed pistachio (a pinch over the top), pistachio cream (cream whipped with pistachio paste, about 2 cm), pistachio sauce (smeared around the inside of the cup before it is filled), espresso (a double shot, poured last so it sits on top), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured) and cold milk (about 180 ml, stirred with a spoonful of pistachio paste). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.

A cafe counts for pistachio 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.