The drink that ate 2025. Pistachio everywhere, queues round the block, and one creamy oat foam to crown it all.
Pistachio became a flavour in 2023. Then, in early 2024, it became the flavour, propelled by a chocolate bar from a small Dubai chocolatier called FIX Dessert Chocolatier that went so viral on TikTok the supply chain for Iranian and Sicilian pistachios visibly strained. By Christmas 2024, every coffee shop, bakery, ice cream parlour and Tesco end-aisle had a pistachio version of something. The flavour is still doing its thing in 2026, only now it has matured: deeper, nuttier, less obviously sweet.
This drink is its coffee form. Cold brew over ice, a creamy pistachio-laced MYOM Barista cold foam crown, a scatter of crushed pistachios on top. It tastes the way the Dubai chocolate looks: indulgent, exotic, slightly knowing. And it costs about a quid to make.
How pistachio became a thing
Pistachios are old. Persian and Mediterranean cuisines have used them for thousands of years; Iranian and Turkish pistachios in particular are among the finest agricultural products on earth. What pistachio hadn't been, until very recently, was fashionable in the way matcha or salted caramel were fashionable. That changed in late 2023 when Sarah Hamouda's FIX Dessert Chocolatier in Dubai launched the "Can't Get Knafeh of It" chocolate bar: a thick milk chocolate shell filled with crispy kataifi pastry, pistachio cream, and tahini. The TikTok edit of the cross-section sold the bar. Queues formed outside the Dubai store. Resale prices hit £25 a bar in the UK by December 2023.
Coffee followed. Speciality cafés in Dubai, then Riyadh, then London and Paris, started building pistachio syrups, pistachio orgeats, pistachio cold creams. The pistachio cold brew with cold foam is the format that has stuck: the bitter, dark, refreshing iced coffee underneath, the rich, nutty crown above, the inevitable pinch of crushed pistachios for texture. It is now one of the highest-priced cold drinks on UK speciality café menus, £6.50 to £8.00 a glass.
The good news: a bottle of decent pistachio syrup costs about £12 and yields 50 drinks. A bag of crushed pistachios from any Turkish or Persian grocer costs £4. MYOM Barista Oat does the cold foam. The most expensive drink in the café becomes the cheapest drink in your kitchen.
“Dubai chocolate took the queue. Pistachio cold brew with cold foam is what the queue ordered when it sat down.”
MYOM Pistachio Cold Brew Cold Foam Recipe
A four-step drink that drinks bigger than its ingredient list. The taste of 2025, made fresh at home.
Serves: 1. Time: 5 minutes (assuming cold brew is already made).
Ingredients
- 1 short tumbler or rocks glass, full of ice
- 200ml of cold brew coffee (homemade or shop-bought)
- 100ml of chilled MYOM Barista Oat (icy-cold, below 6°C)
- 15ml of pistachio syrup (Monin, Maison Routin, or any decent brand)
- 1 teaspoon of finely crushed pistachios (unsalted, raw or lightly roasted)
Method
- Fill the tumbler with ice. Pour 200ml of cold brew over the ice. Don't stir. The cold brew is the base layer.
- Pour the chilled MYOM Barista Oat into a measuring cup. Add 15ml of pistachio syrup. Stir briefly to combine.
- Froth the pistachio-laced MYOM Barista with a handheld frother for 30 seconds, angling the whisk near the surface for the first few seconds, then plunging slowly to thicken. The foam should turn a soft pale green and hold glossy peaks. The volume will roughly double.
- Spoon the cold foam generously over the iced cold brew, building a thick, creamy crown. The foam should sit cleanly on top of the dark coffee.
- Scatter a teaspoon of finely crushed pistachios over the crown. Drink immediately, ideally without a straw, so the pistachio dust hits your top lip first.
Why you'll love it
- Tastes more expensive than it is. About £1 a drink to make at home. £6.50 to £8.00 at the speciality café. Run the maths over a summer.
- Properly textured. Bitter cold brew, creamy pistachio foam, crunchy pistachio dust. Three textures, one drink, no shortcuts.
- The taste of right now. Pistachio is still doing what it's doing, and this drink rides the wave. Plus, MYOM Barista's natural oat sweetness pairs with pistachio's nutty depth in a way that dairy can't.
Make it your own
For an even nuttier version, soak a tablespoon of crushed pistachios in the cold brew overnight, then strain before serving. The cold brew takes on a subtle pistachio note that lifts the whole drink. Or swap pistachio syrup for pistachio cream, the spreadable kind from the Turkish or Persian aisle, with an extra splash of MYOM to thin the foam.
For a Dubai chocolate version, add 10ml of a good chocolate syrup to the cold brew before pouring. The drink becomes the literal coffee-shop translation of the FIX bar that started the whole thing: pistachio, chocolate, and the textural contrast that made the queues form. Crushed kataifi pastry on top, if you can find it, finishes the look.
The offer. £8 off the MYOM Barista bundle this summer.
Loved this drink? The MYOM Barista Everyday Bundle is £8 off all summer. One bundle makes more than 30 cold foam drinks at home, less than the cost of three café iced lattes.
- Was £18.99. Now £10.99 with code MYOMCOLDFOAM.
- Free 1L glass bottle (worth £7.99).
- Free delivery.
- Valid until 31 July 2026.
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Keep reading
- Cold Foams. Beautifully. The Complete Guide to Cold Foam at Home. https://myom.shop/blogs/our-blog/best-oat-milk-for-cold-foam
- Cold Foam Iced Long Black. https://myom.shop/blogs/our-blog/cold-foam-iced-long-black
- Vanilla Cold Foam Iced Latte. https://myom.shop/blogs/our-blog/vanilla-cold-foam-iced-latte
- Espresso Tonic with Cold Foam. https://myom.shop/blogs/our-blog/espresso-tonic-cold-foam
- Strawberry Matcha with Cold Foam. https://myom.shop/blogs/our-blog/strawberry-matcha-cold-foam
- Create the Perfect Foam Every Time with MYOM Barista Oat. https://myom.shop/blogs/our-blog/create-the-perfect-foam-myom-barista-oat
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Oat Milk Without Dipotassium Phosphate. https://myom.shop/blogs/our-blog/myom-oat-milk-without-dipotassium-phosphate
Ready to froth?
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