Protein coffee in Sydney

Iced coffee or a latte with protein added, as a scoop of protein powder or a ready-made protein milk: thicker and a little sweeter than a plain iced coffee. A typical protein coffee, drawn from Sydney cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with straw (through the lid), espresso (a double shot over the top, about 20 g of protein all up), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured) and protein shake (a scoop of vanilla or chocolate protein blended with about 250 ml of milk). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 8 Sydney cafes across 8 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 5 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu.

It is on 5 Sydney cafe menus right now, including aamare cafe in Surry Hills, GLORY DAYS in Bondi Beach, Flying Turtle Beverage Machine in Blacktown and Sweet Spot Cafe in Gymea. 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 protein coffee as "protein". 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 Darwin cafes: 4.8% against Sydney's 0.3%, over the last 90 days.

It is early days. The Froth rates protein coffee as Emerging as of 14 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 14 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 3,099 cafes we have followed through both periods, none of the same cafes had it, against 1 in the 90 days before. Sydney searches for it were up 22% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.

There were 880 searches for protein coffee 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 260 searches (Dec 2024) to 1,000 (Jan 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Sydney.

The earliest Sydney cafe post or customer review about protein coffee 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 cafe counts for protein coffee 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.