South East

In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, the tracked trends most posted by cafes in the South East were Matcha (15% of cafes, 16 cafes), Cold foam (6% of cafes, 6 cafes) and Iced latte (4% of cafes, 4 cafes). Shares are of the 108 cafes there we followed in that time.

No suburb in the South East has the 12 cafes we follow that we need to compare suburbs yet, as at 14 Nov 2026. The South East as a whole is average: 19 of the 108 cafes we read in the last 90 days posted a rising drink, and 26 different trends in six months.

In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, these trends were posted widely by Melbourne cafes but rarely or never by the 108 cafes we followed in the South East: Cold brew (1 here, where the Melbourne share would give about 4).

A gap means we did not see it in the posts we see, not that no cafe there sells it.

We have seen Matcha at 155 cafes in the South East across posts, reviews, menus and press, as at 14 Nov 2026. The most recent sightings: machi machi Glen Waverley (Glen Waverley), machi machi Springvale (Springvale), Mr Spriggins Café Cranbourne (Cranbourne North), Shingle Inn Fountain Gate (Narre Warren) and 2Chi CaPhe (Mulgrave). Each one on this page links to where we saw it.

Honeycomb. Counting posts, reviews, menus and press, it shows up at 7 of the 478 cafes we have seen anything from in the South East (1.5%), 2.2x the Melbourne rate of 0.7%, as at 14 Nov 2026. Too few cafes there posted in the last 90 days to compare on posts alone.

From Oakleigh, Mount Waverley and Glen Waverley through Clayton, Springvale and Noble Park to Dandenong, then on through Endeavour Hills, Narre Warren, Berwick and Cranbourne to Officer and Pakenham, with Emerald and Gembrook in the hills. We track cafes in 62 of its suburbs: Ashwood, Avonsleigh, Bangholme, Beaconsfield, Beaconsfield Upper, Berwick, Botanic Ridge, Bunyip, Caldermeade, Clarinda, Clayton, Clayton South, Clyde, Clyde North, Cockatoo, Cranbourne, Cranbourne East, Cranbourne North, Cranbourne South, Cranbourne West, Dandenong, Dandenong North, Dandenong South, Dingley Village, Doveton, Emerald, Endeavour Hills, Eumemmerring, Fountain Gate, Garfield, Garfield North, Glen Waverley, Guys Hill, Hallam, Hampton Park, Harkaway, Huntingdale, Junction Village, Keysborough, Koo Wee Rup, Lynbrook, Lyndhurst, Lysterfield South, Mount Waverley, Mulgrave, Narre Warren, Narre Warren North, Narre Warren South, Noble Park, Noble Park North, Notting Hill, Oakleigh, Oakleigh East, Oakleigh South, Officer, Pakenham, Pearcedale, Springvale, Springvale South, Tooradin, Tynong, Wheelers Hill.

We track every cafe we can find in Melbourne. We read the public posts of the ones we follow, plus customer reviews, cafe menus and food press. A cafe counts for a trend when it, or a customer posting from it, posted about it. Creators' posts never count as proof a cafe sells something.

A share is the cafes posting a trend in the last 90 days, out of the cafes in the same place that posted anything then. An area needs at least 10 such cafes before we show one. "First seen" is the earliest post we have since 1 Jul 2025. That is when a trend shows up in what we collect, not when or where it started. Figures run to 14 Nov 2026.