It is on a small share of cafes (0.2% in the last 90 days) and holding steady.
Fewer than 5 Melbourne 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.
The stages run Emerging, Rising, Peaking, Mainstream, Fading. A trend can skip a stage or move back.
Croissant dough pressed in a waffle iron until crisp and caramelised, topped sweet or savoury.
6 Melbourne cafes: 4 on their menus, 2 from posts.
6 cafes, cheapest first
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Melbourne cafes with Croffle on their menus or in their posts.
It's emerging: early days yet.
Melbourne searches a month
790 searches, the busiest month.
Tap a number for what changed then.
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Of the cafes in Melbourne that posted anything that month, how many posted croffle, per 1,000 of them.
It is a share, not a count, so it does not grow just because we follow more cafes. It only grows when more of the cafes we follow take it up.
The month in progress shows here once it is complete, so a part month never reads as a drop. A month with too few cafes posting is left out.
0.0 per 1,000 in Oct 2026
Cafe menus listing it now, Melbourne.
4 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.
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
3suburbs with cafes posting it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Melbourne cafes with a post or 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.
Croffle is on 4 Melbourne cafe menus and has been posted by cafes in 3 Melbourne suburbs.
Croissant dough pressed in a waffle iron until crisp and caramelised, topped sweet or savoury. A typical croffle, drawn from Melbourne cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with strawberries (sliced, often with blueberries), ice cream (a scoop of vanilla; some use whipped cream), chocolate sauce (drizzled over; some use caramel) and croffle (croissant dough pressed in a waffle iron, rolled in sugar so it caramelises). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical plate, not one cafe's recipe. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 5 Melbourne cafes across 3 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 6 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
It is on 4 Melbourne cafe menus right now, including Boba Tea & Sushi in Cairnlea, Xing Fu Tang Melbourne in Melbourne, Hello Kitty and Friends Cafe Melbourne Central in Melbourne and No. 19 in Ascot Vale. 2 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.
It is early days. The Froth rates croffle as Emerging as of 14 Nov 2026: it is on a small share of cafes (0.2% in the last 90 days) and holding steady. In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 0.2% of the Melbourne cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 1,224 cafes we have followed through both periods, 1 of the same cafes had it, against none in the 90 days before. Melbourne searches for it were up 21% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 0.9% against Melbourne's 0.2%, over the last 90 days.
There were 660 searches for croffle in Melbourne in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 370 searches (Dec 2025) to 790 (Jul 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Melbourne.
The earliest Melbourne cafe post or customer review about croffle that The Froth has is from 7 Nov 2021. 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 cafe counts for croffle 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 (14 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Melbourne 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.