Honeycomb in Adelaide

Emerging
Only 3 cafes have it so far.
Where to get oneHow it's trending

Crunchy honeycomb toffee crumbled over or stirred into lattes, iced coffees and shakes: sweet, like burnt caramel.

How a honeycomb is built

This is honeycomb

Crunchy honeycomb toffee crumbled over or stirred into lattes, iced coffees and shakes: sweet, like burnt caramel.

Drawn as a honeycomb latte, the drink Adelaide cafes most often put it in.

  1. Cold milk about 180 ml, sweetened with honeycomb syrup
  2. Ice fills the cup before anything is poured
  3. Espresso a double shot, poured last so it sits on top
  4. Honey run around the inside of the cup
  5. Cold foam about 2 cm, to hold the honeycomb up
  6. Crushed honeycomb it starts to melt into the foam straight away
  7. Honeycomb chunk one big piece on top

Illustrative: a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.

Where to get one

Where to get honeycomb in Adelaide

3 Adelaide cafes have it on their menus. Prices are from those menus and may have changed.

3 cafes, cheapest first

  • Roast RetreatBrighton · as “Honeycomb milkshake”
    $12
  • Mad.Good CafeHighgate · as “Honeycomb Milkshake”
    Price not on the menu
  • Xing Fu Tang AdelaideAdelaide · as “Scented Jasmine Tea w/ Honeycomb”
    One price for several drinks
Menus change, so check with the cafe before you go.

Adelaide cafes with Honeycomb on their menus or in their posts.

Trend

Is honeycomb still growing in Adelaide?

It's emerging: early days yet.

Adelaide's figures come from Google reviews and cafe menus (366 Adelaide cafes with a review or menu in the last 90 days). We don't read Adelaide cafes' posts yet, so this is a small sample and a drink shows up here later than it would in posts.

Spread

How honeycomb spread across Adelaide

3suburbs with cafes that have it

By Nov 2026 (so far)

Dec 2024Nov 2026 so far
Bars: Adelaide cafes reviewed with it each month

Honeycomb Adelaide FAQs

Data updated 13 Nov 2026.

Too early to quote: 3 cafes have had it so far. A quote will appear here once 5 cafes have.

See how honeycomb is doing across Australia

What is honeycomb?

Crunchy honeycomb toffee crumbled over or stirred into lattes, iced coffees and shakes: sweet, like burnt caramel. In all our data to 13 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 3 Adelaide cafes across 3 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 3 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu.

Where can I get honeycomb in Adelaide?

It is on 3 Adelaide cafe menus right now, including Roast Retreat in Brighton, Mad.Good Cafe in Highgate and Xing Fu Tang Adelaide in Adelaide. 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 honeycomb called?

Adelaide cafes also sell honeycomb as "Honeycomb Milkshake" and "Honeycomb Iced Latte". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafe menus and Google reviews.

Where in Australia is honeycomb biggest?

Of the cities The Froth reads, Adelaide has it at the biggest share of cafes: 0.8% of Adelaide cafes in the last 90 days, against 0.8% in Perth and 0.6% in Canberra.

What is in a honeycomb latte?

A typical honeycomb latte, drawn from Adelaide cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with honeycomb chunk (one big piece on top), crushed honeycomb (it starts to melt into the foam straight away), cold foam (about 2 cm, to hold the honeycomb up), honey (run around the inside of the cup), espresso (a double shot, poured last so it sits on top), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured) and cold milk (about 180 ml, sweetened with honeycomb syrup). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.

How does The Froth count this?

A cafe counts for honeycomb 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 (13 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Adelaide with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.