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3 hours ago9 Cocktails That Inspired Their Own Drinkware - Tasting Table
Choosing the right drinkware enhances the cocktail experience through aesthetics and functionality.
Fusion food has historically had a bit of a bad rap, with overly gimmicky dishes and unnecessary combinations turning diners off. However, when you drill down into what fusion actually is - blending together flavours, ingredients and techniques from different cuisines - it's something that a lot of chefs are doing all the time.
Toast said the analysis is based on same-store restaurant sales from January 2024 through December 2025 across a cohort on its platform, which served about 164,000 locations as of Dec. 31, 2025. The biggest declines through 2025 were found in green tea (-4.9%), black tea (-3.4%), hot drip coffee (-3.3%) and regular soda (-2.3%).
If you were a frequent coffee shop-goer and Instagram scroller in the mid-2010s, chances are you remember when a certain grassy green beverage started to pop up on café menus, grid posts, and Tumblr feeds. (Of course, we're talking about matcha.) Now, some ten years later, another type of Japanese green tea has made the jump over to the U.S. market: hojicha.
Starbucks is in its wellness era. The coffee giant is doubling down on healthy drink and snack options, because that's "how people want to eat," especially in the afternoon, CEO Brian Niccol said during Starbucks' first-quarter earnings report on Wednesday. "You'll continue to see us push against the health and wellness platform going forward," Niccol said. "In beverage, I think it is going to be this personalized energy that can be executed as still, sparkling, and blended, so there's a pipeline for that platform."
Coffee brimming with lemon myrtle cream. Matcha banked with strawberry-lychee foam. Cold brew with choc-orange froth thick enough to stuff a pillow. Every caffeinated drink I've ordered in Sydney recently has the appearance of a generously frosted cake. It's a trend you'll see or sip across Australia, from Toasted Carine's iced latte with maple cold foam in Perth to Le Bajo's chilled oolong tea with raspberry cream in Melbourne.