Smash burger in Adelaide

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 Adelaide cafes' menus and reviews, 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 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 10 Adelaide cafes across 11 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 14 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.

It is on 11 Adelaide cafe menus right now, including Seafaring Fools in Glenelg South, Lenox Avenue Blackwood in Blackwood, Lenox Avenue Rundle Street in Adelaide and Mirani's cafe in West Lakes Shore. 3 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 $22.20, from 5 Adelaide cafe menus as of 15 Nov 2026. Most charge between $17.20 and $27; the lowest we have seen is $14 and the highest $29.

It is on a bigger share of Hobart cafes: 4% against Adelaide's 2.3%, over the last 90 days.

Adelaide cafes also sell smash burger as "smashed patty". 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 smash burger as Emerging as of 14 Nov 2026: the earliest review we have is from 22 Sep 2026, less than four months ago. In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 2.3% of the Adelaide cafes we see well (a current menu in that time) had it. Adelaide searches for it were up 25% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.

There were 1,090 searches for smash burger 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 660 searches (Feb 2025) to 1,090 (Mar 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Adelaide.

The earliest Adelaide customer review about smash burger that The Froth has is from 22 Sep 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 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.