Fewer of the same cafes had it lately (27, down from 34 in the 90 days before), while searches in Melbourne are about level (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025).
At least 17.5% of the cafes we see well had it in the last 90 days but searches are falling or well below their 12-month high, or fewer of the same cafes have it than in the 90 days before (from at least 10) while searches hold.
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 Melbourne cafes most often serve it.
314 Melbourne cafes: 265 on their menus, 49 from posts.
Showing 10 of 314 cafes, cheapest first
Melbourne cafes with Chilli scramble on their menus or in their posts.
It's peaking: popular, but maybe past its high.
Melbourne searches a month
1,160 searches, the busiest month.
Tap a number for what changed then.
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Of the cafes in Melbourne that posted anything that month, how many posted chilli scramble, per 1,000 of them.
It is a share, not a count, so it does not grow just because we follow more cafes. It only grows when more of the cafes we follow take it up.
The month in progress shows here once it is complete, so a part month never reads as a drop. A month with too few cafes posting is left out.
26 per 1,000 in Oct 2026, 1.4× vs Jun 2026
Cafe menus listing it now, Melbourne.
265 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.
186suburbs with cafes posting it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Melbourne cafes with a post or customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
65 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Each bar is the share of an area's cafes posting it in the last 90 days, from cafe and customer posts only. Tap an area to see it.
Chilli scramble is on 265 Melbourne cafe menus and has been posted by cafes in 186 Melbourne 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 414 Melbourne cafes across 186 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 314 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
It is on 265 Melbourne cafe menus right now, including My Avocado Cafe in Sunshine, Café Lunchroom in Tullamarine, Pavilion Cafe in Sunshine and Muse Ivanhoe Cafe in Ivanhoe. 49 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 $23.53, from 207 Melbourne cafe menus as of 15 Nov 2026. Most charge between $19.50 and $27; the lowest we have seen is $12.50 and the highest $32.
Of the cities The Froth reads, Melbourne has it at the biggest share of cafes: 15% of Melbourne cafes in the last 90 days, against 9.7% in Hobart and 8.6% in Gold Coast.
Melbourne cafes also sell chilli scramble as "scrambled eggs with chilli". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafes' own posts and menus.
It is popular, but may be past its high. The Froth rates chilli scramble as Peaking as of 14 Nov 2026: fewer of the same cafes had it lately (27, down from 34 in the 90 days before), while searches in Melbourne are about level (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025). In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 15% of the Melbourne cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 1,224 cafes we have followed through both periods, 27 of the same cafes had it, against 34 in the 90 days before (down 21%). Melbourne searches for it were down 12% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
There were 830 searches for chilli scramble in Melbourne in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 550 searches (Feb 2026) to 1,160 (Mar 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Melbourne.
The earliest Melbourne cafe post or customer review about chilli scramble that The Froth has is from 3 Jan 2022. 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 Melbourne cafes' own posts, 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 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.