Honey Hi: What’s Vegetarian Editorial Review

Honey Hi is an all-day breakfast and lunch cafe at 1620 Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park, and a vegetarian can eat well here as long as you read the labels. The owners mark dishes “v” for vegetarian and “vg” for vegan right on the menu, and they serve meat too, so you can sort the menu by label.

The kitchen is 100 percent gluten-free, including the buckwheat sourdough. The owners buy produce at the Hollywood, Santa Monica, and Echo Park farmers’ markets, and the cooks use olive oil, grass-fed butter, or coconut oil. They sweeten with honey, coconut sugar, or maple syrup. That last point matters if you eat vegan, and we cover it below.

What to order

Start with the labeled dishes. The GF Breakfast Sandwich runs $17 and comes with a sunny side up egg, caramelized fennel and onions, avocado mash, thyme, arugula, and an ancho and chipotle chile aioli on buckwheat sourdough. It carries the “v” label. Eggs & Toast is $15 for two soft scrambled farm eggs with chives and two slices of grilled buckwheat sourdough with grass-fed butter, also labeled “v.”

At lunch, the Angelus Salad is $19 and carries the “vg” label. You get little gems, frisee, radicchio, roasted delicata squash, persimmon, shaved fennel, maple cayenne pecans, pomegranate seeds, and a lemon tarragon vinaigrette. The owners note that it contains nuts. A side of Sweet Potato Hash is $6 and also marked “vg,” so you can add it to anything.

Two dishes carry no label but read as meat-free from their listed ingredients. The Kabocha Beans & Greens is $18.50 and combines Rancho Gordo Royal Corona beans in kabocha sage broth with leek and garlic confit rainbow chard, house-made zhoug, cilantro oil, and a sunny side up egg. The GF Kabocha Spiced Pancakes are $19 with a pecan cocoa crumble, persimmons, pomegranate seeds, coconut whipped cream, and maple syrup. Honey Hi notes that the batter contains almonds, butter, and eggs. Ask your server to confirm both before you order, since we judged them from the ingredient lists alone.

Halloumi cheese is a $6 side if you want more protein.

The catch

Honey Hi is not a vegetarian kitchen. The Breakfast Bowl includes Cream Co. heritage bacon, the Breakfast Burrito has pork chorizo, the Miso Bowl has pasture-raised chicken thigh, and the Lambwich is grass-fed lamb and beef. The owners also sell lamb and beef sausage, salmon, and chicken as sides. We could not confirm separate prep or fryer details, so if cross-contact matters to you, ask the staff.

Vegans, read closely. The GF Avocado Toast carries the “v” label, and the owners note that it contains honey. The labeled “vg” dishes are the safe picks.

Practical notes

Expect to pay about $14.50 to $22 for a main, based on the dishes we read. A GF Chocolate Chip Cookie is $5.50 and contains butter and farm eggs. You can order online from the site, and the owners sell gift cards and hats.

Honey Hi posts two sets of hours. The banner on its homepage says breakfast and lunch every day from 8am to 3pm, and the hours block lower on the same page says 9am to 4pm. Call 213-221-7810 before you go. Diners left reviews on its Uber Eats order page as recently as November 2, 2026, so the cafe is operating.

If you are choosing one thing, make it the Angelus Salad with a side of sweet potato hash. Both carry the “vg” label, and you will not have to wonder.