There is no single Australian stage: each city has its own, worked out from its own cafes with the same rules. This is the stage most of the cities share (Gold Coast, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra); every city's own stage is in City by city.
Fading: No cafe had it in the last 90 days, or the number of the same cafes with it fell by a quarter or more on the 90 days before (from at least 10 cafes) while searches did not rise, or searches are under half their 12-month high and cafes are not picking it up.
Chocolate filled with pistachio cream and kataifi.
Biggest in Gold Coast, on 2.7% of its cafes in the last 90 days. Search changes are Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025.
Each card counts the city's cafes with a post, a customer review or a current menu naming it in the last 90 days. Its share is of that city's own cafes, so a smaller city can be ahead.
We don't read Hobart, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra cafes' own posts yet, so their figures come from Google reviews and menus only.
“Where to get one” lists a different set: cafes with it on a current menu or in a cafe's or creator's post, whenever it was. That is why a city's count there is not the same.
Chocolate filled with pistachio cream and kataifi.
Drawn as a Dubai chocolate bar, the way cafes most often serve it.
Illustrative: a typical plate, not one cafe's recipe.
Where to get one259 cafes in 8 cities: 196 on their menus, 63 from posts. Prices are from the menus and may have changed.
Showing 10 of 259 cafes, cheapest first
Australian cafes with Dubai chocolate on their menus or in their posts.
Searches are down 81% on a year earlier. (Aug to Oct 2026 vs Aug to Oct 2025)
Australia searches a month
Searches up by half on Nov 2024.
264,100 searches, the busiest month.
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days. Tap a city to see its page.
Of every search for it across Australia, Aug to Oct 2026, the part from each city.
Searches in Oct 2026. Each circle's area matches its number.
8cities where we've seen it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is how many cities had a cafe post or review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
Each city appears in the month of its earliest post or review in our data and grows as more of its suburbs have it. Its size is its cafes so far, never added to another city's.
Data updated 13 Nov 2026.
“Dubai chocolate is on 259 cafe menus across 8 Australian cities, and furthest ahead in Gold Coast (2.7% of its cafes).”
Chocolate filled with pistachio cream and kataifi. The Froth has seen it at cafes in 8 Australian cities (Gold Coast, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra) as of 13 Nov 2026.
It is on 259 cafe menus across 8 cities right now, including Profiterole Patisserie Guildford in Guildford, Sydney, Fala Fels in Mermaid Waters, Gold Coast, Moshi Mochi in Erindale, Adelaide and I am ARI Dessert Cafe in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. The "Where to get one" list on this page has every menu, city by city, with the price where the menu gives one and directions. Menus change, so check with the cafe before you go.
The average is $18.11, from 76 cafe menus in 5 cities as of 14 Nov 2026. Most charge between $7.25 and $27.50; the lowest we have seen is $6 and the highest $46.95. Each city's own average is on its page.
Of the cities The Froth reads, Gold Coast has it on the biggest share of cafes: 2.7% of Gold Coast cafes in the last 90 days, against 2.3% in Melbourne and 1.8% in Sydney. Each city's share is of its own cafes, so a smaller city can be ahead.
Searches for it across Australia were down 81% in Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025. There is no single Australian stage: each city has its own, from its own cafes. The Froth rates it Fading in Gold Coast, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra as of 13 Nov 2026.
There were 28,100 searches for Dubai chocolate across Australia in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the months we have, from Jul 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 28,100 (Sep 2026) to 264,100 (May 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand across every state and territory.
Australian cafes also sell Dubai chocolate as "kunafa chocolate". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend.
The earliest cafe post or customer review about Dubai chocolate that The Froth has, in any city we read, is from 23 Jul 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 dubai chocolate bar, drawn from cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with green drizzle (white chocolate coloured green, piped over), chocolate top (more chocolate poured over to seal it), pistachio kataifi (pistachio cream folded through toasted kataifi pastry, for the crunch) and chocolate shell (milk chocolate set in a deep bar mould). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical plate, not one cafe's recipe.
Every city is counted on its own, with the same rules: a cafe counts for Dubai chocolate from the first public post or customer review we found about it, and while it is on the cafe's current menu. A city's share is of its own cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in the same 90 days, a chain counting once), and its change compares the same cafes in the last 90 days with the 90 before. Cities' cafe figures are never added together, because we read some cities' posts and others only from reviews and menus. Searches are monthly search demand across Australia with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.