A themed cafe offering coffee, pastries and art classes is closing its Montrose location on Aug. 24, with the hopes of opening a new location in The Heights, according to Honey Art Cafe's social media.

What’s special about it?

Honey Art Cafe opened back in December 2016 by artist duo Lulu Fang and Amy Lin, according to previous Community Impact reporting. Fang told Community Impact back in 2021 that the cafe's goal was to make a space where people could rediscover the fun of art.

The cafe is a place where customers can come in for drinks or eat macarons designed with different characters such as Pikachu from the Pokemon series, Kirby from the Kirby video game series, Snoopy from Peanuts, Totoro from My Neighbor Totoro and many more character-designed macarons.
Beyond drinks, customers can also order macarons inspired by different characters from anime and video games. (Courtesy Honey Art Cafe)
Beyond drinks, customers can also order macarons inspired by different characters from anime and video games. (Courtesy Honey Art Cafe)
Beyond the drinks and macarons, customers can also participate in drawing and watercolor art classes led by Fang and Lin, as well as more hands-on projects such as making earrings or decorating a mini terrarium.

What's happening?


The cafe announced on their social media that they will be closing their current location on Aug. 24 after their lease ends.

"When Lulu and I opened the Shepherd location in 2016, we built Honey Art ourselves with money saved up from selling art at anime conventions and teaching art classes in a tiny 150 square foot office," Lin wrote on social media. "Since then, we have worked nearly nonstop to keep our little dream café open through pandemic shutdowns, floods, freezes, endless road work and landlord issues."
Honey Art Cafe provides art classes to help rediscover the fun of art. (Courtesy Honey Art Cafe)
Honey Art Cafe provides art classes to help rediscover the fun of art. (Courtesy Honey Art Cafe)
Lin also announced that Fang will be retiring from the cafe, as Fang had a daughter a few years back, according to the social media post.

"Our schedule of working seven days a week, every week doesn’t leave time for much else, so she will be going back to her roots as a certified architect," Lin said.

The cafe plans on opening a new location in The Heights, near the Houston Farmer's Market, with a projected opening date around Halloween.


"I am super nervous about taking on this next era on my own," Lin wrote. "The new Honey Art Cafe will be a little different, but at its core it will be exactly the same—a space to create for anyone, no matter your age or experience."