Taro in Sydney

A starchy root used as a paste or powder in lattes and milk teas: sweet and nutty, a little like vanilla, and pale purple in the cup. In all our data to 13 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 89 Sydney cafes across 99 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 239 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.

It is on 229 Sydney cafe menus right now, including Cafe Vianee in Miranda, CEMO in Chatswood, The Brew Spot in North Strathfield and Ariana's Place in Newtown. 10 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 $6.69, from 28 Sydney cafe menus as of 14 Nov 2026. Most charge between $4.94 and $9.60; the lowest we have seen is $4.80 and the highest $13.

It is on a bigger share of Adelaide cafes: 3.8% against Sydney's 3.2%, over the last 90 days.

Sydney cafes also sell taro as "Taro Milk Tea", "Taro Latte", "Iced Taro Latte", "Taro Frappe", "Taro Matcha", "Taro Tea", "Taro Pearl Milk Tea" and "Taro Bubble Tea", plus 17 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 taro as Emerging as of 13 Nov 2026: it is on a small share of cafes (3.2% in the last 90 days) and holding steady. In the 90 days to 13 Nov 2026, 3.2% 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, 11 of the same cafes had it, against 4 in the 90 days before. Sydney searches for it were level in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.

There were 590 searches for taro 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 720 (Jun 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Sydney.

The earliest Sydney cafe post or customer review about taro that The Froth has is from 27 Sep 2023. 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 taro latte, drawn from Sydney cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with wide straw (wide enough for the taro), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured), cold milk (about 220 ml, usually with no coffee at all) and taro paste (steamed taro mashed with sugar, a thick layer at the bottom). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.

A cafe counts for taro 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.