Honey Hi

"Open since 2016, Honey Hi is a long-standing Echo Park daytime cafe. The menu feels very California, with fresh produce and local meats guiding the menu. The breakfast bowl with sweet potato hash and poached egg is a morning classic, while the kabocha gluten-free pancakes offer a morning option for those avoiding wheat. The light-filled dining room is the ideal spot to take in some rays while sipping on some coffee, matcha, or broth." - Rebecca Roland

"The small but mighty Honey Hi is a fully gluten-free restaurant that also deals in bright all-day fare like vegetable-laden bowls, heaping salads, and sandwiches. Oat-y, kabocha-spiced pancakes flew over the counter in waves; the diner next to me dug into the lambwich, a behemoth sandwich stacked with a grilled lamb-and-beef patty, halloumi, arugula, pickled onions, and tamarind date chutney on gluten-free sourdough. There’s no wrong way to Honey Hi, whether by yourself or with friends, and you often feel light enough after to take a walk around glittering Echo Park lake, which is just around the corner." - Eater Staff

"A trip to the fully-GF Honey Hi for colorful smoothies and seasonal grain bowls is such a refreshing experience you might consider leaving town to go start a hemp farm in Ojai. If you’re on a GF diet and craving pancakes and bread, this is the place. Our must-order is the Moroccan-spiced Lambwich, a perfect combination of a lamb-beef patty and halloumi with an acidic punch. The laid-back atmosphere with quick in-and-out traffic makes it great for solo diners, and you can entertain yourself by perking up to the ’90s alt playlist." - jean trinh 1, garrett snyder

"Sit down in Honey Hi’s bright, inviting dining room for a gluten-free all-day experience in Los Angeles. That means everything, including the pancakes, toast, and sandwiches. Be sure to take in the creamy chive-flecked eggs served with buckwheat sourdough or the breakfast sandwich piled with caramelized fennel, onions, arugula, and avocado mash. Just about every dish can be ordered with meat or modified to be vegetarian or vegan-friendly." - Mona Holmes, Nicole Adlman

"It’d be easy to write Honey Hi off as just another Eastside spot cashing in on Angelenos’ obsession with wellness. But Honey Hi is a lot more than that - it’s a great neighborhood cafe that serves gluten- and refined sugar-free classics food like a lamb burger, Thai green curry meatballs, and sweet potato and avocado toast. And if you’re in the mood for something slightly less healthy, the mochi pancakes are some of the best pancakes in town." - brant cox, brett keating