Smash burger in Gold Coast

Thin beef patties pressed flat on a hot grill so the edges go crisp, with melted cheese and pickles in a soft bun. A typical smash burger, drawn from Gold Coast cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with potato bun, top (the top half), burger sauce (mayo, mustard, ketchup and chopped pickle), diced onion (raw, finely diced), pickles (a few slices), more cheese (another slice), second patty (smashed the same way), american cheese (a slice, melted over), smashed patty (a ball of beef pressed thin on the grill, about 80 g) and potato bun, bottom (soft and squishy, toasted). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical plate, not one cafe's recipe. In all our data to 15 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 15 Gold Coast cafes across 13 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 12 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.

It is on 10 Gold Coast cafe menus right now, including Scott's Luncheonette & Bar in Palm Beach, Next Door Espresso in Tweed Heads South, The Wedge in Tallebudgera and The Wee Nibble Cafe in Nerang. 2 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 $24.70, from 7 Gold Coast cafe menus as of 15 Nov 2026. Most charge between $20.40 and $27.60; the lowest we have seen is $19.50 and the highest $30.

It is on a bigger share of Hobart cafes: 4% against Gold Coast's 3.3%, over the last 90 days.

Gold Coast cafes also sell smash burger as "smashed patty". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafes' own posts and menus.

Yes. The Froth rates smash burger as Rising as of 15 Nov 2026: searches in Gold Coast are up 33% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025), though too few of the same cafes have it to read a change (1, against 1 in the 90 days before). In the 90 days to 15 Nov 2026, 3.3% of the Gold Coast cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 450 cafes we have followed through both periods, 1 of the same cafes had it, against 1 in the 90 days before. Gold Coast searches for it were up 33% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.

There were 1,200 searches for smash burger in Gold Coast in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 410 searches (Dec 2024) to 1,200 (Oct 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Gold Coast.

The earliest Gold Coast cafe post or customer review about smash burger that The Froth has is from 28 Mar 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 cafe counts for smash burger 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 (15 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Gold Coast 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.