Black sesame in Perth
Emerging
It is on a small share of cafes (0.8% in the last 90 days) and holding steady.
Fewer than 5 Perth cafes have it, or the first review we have is under 120 days old. 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.
Roasted black sesame ground to a paste and stirred into lattes and matcha: nutty, toasty and a little bitter, and it turns the drink grey.
Where to get black sesame in Perth
5 Perth cafes: 3 on their menus, 2 from posts.
5 cafes, A to Z
- Blacksmith HighgateUnverifiedPrice not on the menu
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
- cake by cake (CAFE CBC)$6.50
- Esprezzo$4.70
- OVERTHEMOON CAKE & DESSERT$7
- Rina's on BeaufortUnverifiedPrice not on the menu
Seen in a post, not on its current menu.
Perth cafes with Black sesame on their menus or in their posts.
Is black sesame still growing in Perth?
It's emerging: early days yet.
About Perth's figures
Perth's figures come from Google reviews and cafe menus (632 Perth cafes with a review or menu in the last 90 days). We don't read Perth cafes' posts yet, so a drink shows up here later than it would in posts.
Perth searches a month
May 2025
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
Aug 2025
140 searches, the busiest month.
Jun 2026
First Perth review in our data.
Tap a number for what changed then.
How Perth compares
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Perth's share of Australia's searches
8%Aug to Oct 2026Down from 10% in Aug to Oct 2025 (the green tick).On menus
Cafe menus listing it now, Perth.
3 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.
Perth, Australia and the world
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
How black sesame spread across Perth
8suburbs with cafes that have it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Perth cafes with a customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
2 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Black sesame Perth FAQs
Black sesame is on 3 Perth cafe menus and has been seen at cafes in 8 Perth suburbs.
What is black sesame?
Roasted black sesame ground to a paste and stirred into lattes and matcha: nutty, toasty and a little bitter, and it turns the drink grey. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 8 Perth cafes across 8 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 5 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
Where can I get black sesame in Perth?
It is on 3 Perth cafe menus right now, including Esprezzo in Noranda, cake by cake (CAFE CBC) in Willetton and OVERTHEMOON CAKE & DESSERT in Victoria Park. 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.
What else is black sesame called?
Perth cafes also sell black sesame as "Black Sesame Latte", "Black Sesame Affogato", "Black Sesame Foam" and "Black Sesame Soy Latte". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafe menus and Google reviews.
Where in Australia is black sesame biggest?
It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 1.5% against Perth's 0.8%, over the last 90 days.
Is black sesame getting more popular in Perth?
It is early days. The Froth rates black sesame as Emerging as of 14 Nov 2026: it is on a small share of cafes (0.8% in the last 90 days) and holding steady. In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 0.8% of the Perth cafes we see well (a current menu in that time) had it. Perth searches for it were down 4% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
How many people search for black sesame in Perth?
There were 110 searches for black sesame in Perth in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 30 searches (Jan 2025) to 140 (Aug 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Perth.
When did black sesame first show up in Perth cafes?
The earliest Perth customer review about black sesame that The Froth has is from 16 Jun 2026. 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.
How does The Froth count this?
A cafe counts for black sesame from the first Google review we found that mentions it, and while it is on the cafe's current menu. Shares are of the cafes we see well: those with 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 new reviews or menus (14 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Perth with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.