It is on a small share of cafes (6.9% in the last 90 days) and holding steady.
Fewer than 5 Adelaide cafes have it, or the first review we have is under 120 days old. It also covers anything on a small share of cafes that is holding steady.
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 Adelaide cafes most often serve it.
34 Adelaide cafes: 26 on their menus, 8 from posts.
Showing 10 of 34 cafes, cheapest first
Adelaide cafes with Chilli scramble on their menus or in their posts.
It's emerging: early days yet.
Adelaide's figures come from Google reviews and cafe menus (435 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.
Adelaide searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
Tap a number for what changed then.
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Cafe menus listing it now, Adelaide.
26 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.
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
39suburbs with cafes that have it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Adelaide cafes with a customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
15 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Chilli scramble is on 26 Adelaide cafe menus and has been seen at cafes in 39 Adelaide 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 46 Adelaide cafes across 39 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 34 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
It is on 26 Adelaide cafe menus right now, including Boomers Bar and Kitchen in Christies Beach, Crosswalk cafe in Edwardstown, East Borough Parkside in Parkside and Coffylosophy in Adelaide. 8 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 $24.35, from 17 Adelaide cafe menus as of 15 Nov 2026. Most charge between $20.20 and $28.80; the lowest we have seen is $16 and the highest $31.
It is on a bigger share of Melbourne cafes: 15% against Adelaide's 6.9%, over the last 90 days.
Adelaide cafes also sell chilli scramble as "scrambled eggs with chilli". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafe menus and Google reviews.
It is early days. The Froth rates chilli scramble as Emerging as of 14 Nov 2026: it is on a small share of cafes (6.9% in the last 90 days) and holding steady. In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 6.9% of the Adelaide cafes we see well (a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 728 cafes we have followed through both periods, 4 of the same cafes had it, against 4 in the 90 days before. Adelaide searches for it were up 3% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
There were 90 searches for chilli scramble in Adelaide in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 60 searches (Dec 2025) to 160 (Mar 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Adelaide.
The earliest Adelaide customer review about chilli scramble that The Froth has is from 8 Oct 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 chilli scrambled eggs, drawn from Adelaide 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 Adelaide with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.