Only one cafe has it so far.
Fewer than 5 Hobart cafes have it, or the first review we have is under 120 days old. It also covers anything on a small share of cafes that is holding steady.
The stages run Emerging, Rising, Peaking, Mainstream, Fading. A trend can skip a stage or move back.
Crisp toast with kaya, a coconut and pandan jam, and thick slices of cold butter, often with soft-boiled eggs.
It's emerging: early days yet.
Hobart's figures come from Google reviews and cafe menus (124 Hobart cafes with a review or menu in the last 90 days). We don't read Hobart cafes' posts yet, so this is a small sample and a drink shows up here later than it would in posts.
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Cafe menus listing it now, Hobart.
2 cafe menus
We started reading cafe menus in late 2026. Cafes adding and dropping it each month show here once the first whole month of menu reads is in.
1suburb with cafes that have it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Hobart cafes with a customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
1 suburb is known only from a menu, which we can't date, so it counts in the last month.
Data updated 15 Nov 2026.
Too early to quote: one cafe has had it so far. A quote will appear here once 5 cafes have.
Crisp toast with kaya, a coconut and pandan jam, and thick slices of cold butter, often with soft-boiled eggs. A typical kaya toast, drawn from Hobart cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with soft-boiled eggs (two, cracked into a dish, with soy sauce and white pepper), toast, top (the top slice), cold butter (a thick slab, straight from the fridge), kaya (coconut and egg jam with pandan; some use the brown, caramel kind) and toast, bottom (thin white bread toasted crisp, the crusts cut off). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical plate, not one cafe's recipe. In all our data to 15 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 1 Hobart cafe across 1 suburb, in Google reviews and menus. The 2 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu.
It is on 2 Hobart cafe menus right now, including Bumi Coffee in Hobart and Bumi Eatery in Hobart. 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.
A cafe counts for kaya toast from the first Google review we found that mentions it, and while it is on the cafe's current menu. Shares are of the cafes we see well: those with 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 new reviews or menus (15 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Hobart with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.
Of the cities The Froth reads, Hobart has it at the biggest share of cafes: 0.8% of Hobart cafes in the last 90 days, against 0.3% in Melbourne and 0.2% in Adelaide.