Honest Mary’s was founded by Mary and Nelson Monteith with a vision to create a genuinely healthy restaurant that matched their active and clean lifestyle. Despite Austin’s emphasis on healthy living and recreation, they noticed a clear lack of convenient options serving freshly prepared, health-conscious food. Determined to create a solution, they opened the first Honest Mary’s in Austin's Arboretum neighborhood in 2017.
The positive impact of the first store on guests and team members inspired Honest Mary’s to expand its footprint and team. In 2020, the second location opened in Rosedale. Soon after, Andrew Wiseheart, a friend and restaurateur of Contigo and Ladybird Taco, joined Honest Mary’s as a Co-Owner & COO, bringing decades of people-first restaurant experience and culinary excellence to help propel the company’s mission forward.
As Honest Mary’s continues to grow, the mission remains the same: to improve lives through nourishing food - one meal at a time.
Improve community through wholesome, life-giving food.
Our ambition is to help our guests and team become the best version of themselves through nourishing food, authentic kindness, and genuine care for their well-being.
We want to set a new standard for restaurants by making healthy food enjoyable and accessible, and genuinely helping people grow. In other words, we're so much more than a meal. Join us on our journey to provide healthy, delicious, and convenient food options to communities everywhere.
Honest, simple, genuine—the essence of who we are.
We bring the principles of home-cooking to our restaurants. By hand-preparing whole foods from scratch daily, and committing to simple (and delicious) ingredients - it’s simply honest-to-goodness food.
We hope our guests feel at home in our warm and friendly spaces. Set your phone aside and share a meal with a friend, or bring a book and settle in.
You feel better and live better when you’re properly nourished. We take care of our people - whether that’s through our food, employee care, or community engagement. This means you’ll leave Honest Mary’s feeling better than when you got here.
Whether you want a quick lunch or a leisurely dinner, we accommodate the rhythm of your life. Because you shouldn’t have to sacrifice wholesomeness for speed, and you should be able to enjoy home-cooking without doing it yourself. Come to Honest Mary’s whenever.
Simple ingredients. High standards.
Our menu is 82% free of industrial seed oils, and we’re actively working toward eliminating them entirely. We define seed oils as highly processed oils like canola, soybean, sunflower and corn. While we do use a small amount sesame oil in a few items, all oils used in our kitchen are Non-GMO and carefully chosen to support cleaner food.
We don’t use artificial flavors, colors, preservatives, or additives. Just clean, whole ingredients prepared fresh every day.
We believe sweet should come naturally. That’s why we use only natural sweeteners like honey, maple syrup, and coconut sugar. Note that trace amounts of refined sugar could be found in kombucha after fermentation.
We use the Dirty Dozen list to guide which fruits and vegetables we source organically, helping reduce exposure to pesticides and support cleaner farming practices. Exceptions may apply due to cost or availability.
We proudly serve wild-caught tuna – never farmed. It’s a choice we make to support healthier oceans and bring you the cleanest, highest-quality fish we can find.
Our chicken and steak come from animals raised without added hormones and not given antibiotics unless medically necessary.
What sparked the beginning continues to fuel our journey.
