Searches in Melbourne are under half their 12-month high, and cafes are not picking it up: too few of the same cafes have it to read a change (5, against 5 in the 90 days before).
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.
The stages run Emerging, Rising, Peaking, Mainstream, Fading. A trend can skip a stage or move back.
Chocolate filled with pistachio cream and kataifi.
Drawn as a Dubai chocolate bar, the way Melbourne cafes most often serve it.
77 Melbourne cafes: 45 on their menus, 32 from posts.
Showing 10 of 77 cafes, cheapest first
Melbourne cafes with Dubai chocolate on their menus or in their posts.
Each bar is the Melbourne cafes whose menu lists Dubai chocolate in that flavour. Under each flavour is the menu line most of those cafes use.
A chain counts as one cafe however many shops it has.
Not at the moment: it's fading.
Melbourne searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
First Melbourne cafe post or review in our data.
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 Dubai chocolate, 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.
7.6 per 1,000 in Oct 2026, 1.5× vs Jun 2026
Cafe menus listing it now, Melbourne.
45 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.
81suburbs 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.
44 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Each bar is the share of an area's cafes posting it in the last 90 days, from cafe and customer posts only. Tap an area to see it.
Dubai chocolate is on 45 Melbourne cafe menus and has been posted by cafes in 81 Melbourne suburbs.
Chocolate filled with pistachio cream and kataifi. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 54 Melbourne cafes across 81 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 77 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
It is on 45 Melbourne cafe menus right now, including Tracy Bakes Cakes in Lysterfield, Miss Cheesecake By Sopa in Balwyn, Sugar Secret in Brunswick West and Alonso's Donuts in South Melbourne. 32 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.
The average is $21.88, from 42 Melbourne cafe menus as of 15 Nov 2026. Most charge between $12.90 and $27.50; the lowest we have seen is $7.50 and the highest $30.
It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 2.7% against Melbourne's 2.3%, over the last 90 days.
Melbourne cafes also sell Dubai chocolate as "kunafa chocolate". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafes' own posts and menus.
Not at the moment. The Froth rates Dubai chocolate as Fading as of 14 Nov 2026: searches in Melbourne are under half their 12-month high, and cafes are not picking it up: too few of the same cafes have it to read a change (5, against 5 in the 90 days before). In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 2.3% 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, 5 of the same cafes had it, against 5 in the 90 days before. Melbourne searches for it were down 79% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
There were 6,810 searches for Dubai chocolate 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 5,570 searches (Sep 2026) to 54,900 (Mar 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Melbourne.
The earliest Melbourne cafe post or customer review about Dubai chocolate that The Froth has is from 14 Jun 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 Dubai chocolate bar, drawn from Melbourne 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.
A cafe counts for Dubai chocolate 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.