The few searches for it in Darwin are under half their 12-month high, and cafes are not picking it up: too few of the same cafes have it to read a change (1, against none in the 90 days before).
No cafe had it in the last 90 days, or the number of the same cafes with it fell by a quarter or more on the 90 days before (from at least 10 cafes) while searches did not rise, or searches are under half their 12-month high and cafes are not picking it up.
The stages run Emerging, Rising, Peaking, Mainstream, Fading. A trend can skip a stage or move back.
Soft scrambled eggs with chilli through them, fresh or as chilli oil, on toast with feta, herbs and crispy shallots.
Drawn as a chilli scrambled eggs, the way Darwin cafes most often serve it.
Not at the moment: it's fading.
Darwin's figures come from Google reviews and cafe menus (56 Darwin cafes with a review or menu in the last 90 days). We don't read Darwin cafes' posts yet, so this is a small sample and a drink shows up here later than it would in posts.
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Cafe menus listing it now, Darwin.
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.
3suburbs with cafes that have it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Darwin cafes with a customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
1 suburb is known only from a menu, which we can't date, so it counts in the last month.
Chilli scramble is on 3 Darwin cafe menus and has been seen at cafes in 3 Darwin suburbs.
Soft scrambled eggs with chilli through them, fresh or as chilli oil, on toast with feta, herbs and crispy shallots. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 6 Darwin 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.
It is on 3 Darwin cafe menus right now, including Dukes Cafe + Eatery in Darwin City, The Harvest Press in Darwin City and The Greenhouse in Nightcliff. 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.
Not at the moment. The Froth rates chilli scramble as Fading as of 14 Nov 2026: the few searches for it in Darwin are under half their 12-month high, and cafes are not picking it up: too few of the same cafes have it to read a change (1, against none in the 90 days before). In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 7.1% of the Darwin cafes we see well (a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 90 cafes we have followed through both periods, 1 of the same cafes had it, against none in the 90 days before. Darwin searches for it were level in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
It is on a bigger share of Melbourne cafes: 15% against Darwin's 7.1%, over the last 90 days.
There were 10 searches for chilli scramble in Darwin in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 0 searches (Feb 2025) to 30 (Jun 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Darwin.
The earliest Darwin customer review about chilli scramble that The Froth has is from 22 Jul 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.
A typical chilli scrambled eggs, drawn from Darwin cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with coriander (picked leaves; some use spring onion), chilli crisp (chilli oil full of crunchy chilli, garlic and fried shallot; some use fresh chilli), feta (crumbled over), scrambled eggs (soft and creamy, about three eggs) and sourdough toast (a thick slice, toasted). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical plate, not one cafe's recipe.
A cafe counts for chilli scramble 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 Darwin with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.