Hot honey in Melbourne

Honey with chilli through it, drizzled over fried chicken, halloumi, pizza and toast. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 84 Melbourne cafes across 68 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 94 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.

It is on 66 Melbourne cafe menus right now, including Q Barbeque Mulgrave in Mulgrave, Baba’s Deli Ivanhoe in Ivanhoe, Bodega On High in Berwick and Hector's Deli in Richmond. 28 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 $22.27, from 25 Melbourne cafe menus as of 14 Nov 2026. Most charge between $17.36 and $27.50; the lowest we have seen is $16 and the highest $30.

It is on a bigger share of Darwin cafes: 9.5% against Melbourne's 3.8%, over the last 90 days.

Yes. The Froth rates hot honey as Rising as of 14 Nov 2026: searches in Melbourne are up 56% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Nov 2025 to Jan 2026), though too few of the same cafes have it to read a change (7, against 8 in the 90 days before). In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 3.8% of the Melbourne cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 1,210 cafes we have followed through both periods, 7 of the same cafes had it, against 8 in the 90 days before. Melbourne searches for it were up 56% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Nov 2025 to Jan 2026.

There were 3,600 searches for hot honey in Melbourne in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 12 months we have, from Nov 2025 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 1,900 searches (Nov 2025) to 3,600 (Oct 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Melbourne.

The earliest Melbourne cafe post or customer review about hot honey that The Froth has is from 16 Aug 2024. 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 hot honey fried chicken bun, drawn from Melbourne cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with bun, top (the top half), pickles (a few slices), hot honey (honey warmed with chilli, poured over the chicken), fried chicken (a crumbed, fried thigh), slaw (shredded cabbage and carrot, lightly dressed) and bun, bottom (a brioche or milk bun). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical plate, not one cafe's recipe.

A cafe counts for hot honey 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.