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 (Brisbane, Perth, Sydney, Melbourne); every city's own stage is in City by city.
Emerging: Fewer than 5 Sydney cafes have it, or the first cafe post or review we have is under 120 days old, or creators are posting it before any cafe has it. It also covers anything on a small share of cafes that is holding steady.
Micro means fewer than 10 cafes have posted it in the last 90 days in every city we track. The tag goes by itself once 10 or more cafes in any city have it.
A floral syrup made from elderflowers, mixed into sodas, iced teas and cold foams: light, sweet and perfumed.
Biggest in Hobart, on 1.1% of its cafes in the last 90 days.
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, Canberra and Perth 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.
A floral syrup made from elderflowers, mixed into sodas, iced teas and cold foams: light, sweet and perfumed.
Drawn as an elderflower soda, the drink cafes most often put it in.
Illustrative: a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.
Where to get one20 cafes in 7 cities: 13 on their menus, 7 from posts. Prices are from the menus and may have changed.
Showing 10 of 20 cafes, cheapest first
Australian cafes with Elderflower on their menus or in their posts.
The flavours on cafe menus that list elderflower across Australia, most cafes first, with the menu line most of them use. A chain counts as one cafe however many shops it has.
Australia searches a month
Earliest cafe post or review in our data, in any city.
Searches up by half on Nov 2024.
7cities 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.
“Elderflower is on 20 cafe menus across 7 Australian cities, and furthest ahead in Hobart (1.1% of its cafes).”
A floral syrup made from elderflowers, mixed into sodas, iced teas and cold foams: light, sweet and perfumed. The Froth has seen it at cafes in 7 Australian cities (Hobart, Gold Coast, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne) as of 13 Nov 2026.
It is on 20 cafe menus across 7 cities right now, including Rodney’s Garden Café in Pialligo, Canberra, Paddock Bakery in Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, The Green Edge in Windsor, Brisbane and Sisterhood in Sandy Bay, Hobart. 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.
Of the cities The Froth reads, Hobart has it on the biggest share of cafes: 1.1% of Hobart cafes in the last 90 days, against 1% in Gold Coast and 0.6% in Canberra. Each city's share is of its own cafes, so a smaller city can be ahead.
There is no single Australian stage: each city has its own, from its own cafes. The Froth rates it Fading in Hobart, Gold Coast and Canberra; Emerging in Brisbane, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne as of 13 Nov 2026.
There were 100 searches for elderflower 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 30 (Mar 2025) to 100 (Oct 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand across every state and territory.
The earliest cafe post or customer review about elderflower that The Froth has, in any city we read, is from 19 Jan 2025. 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 elderflower soda, drawn from cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with mint (a sprig on top), lemon wheel (a slice on the rim), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured), soda water (about 200 ml, poured over the ice) and elderflower cordial (about 30 ml). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.
Every city is counted on its own, with the same rules: a cafe counts for elderflower 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.