Honey Butter Fried Chicken

• resultPass
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 5, 2025
• address3355-3361 N Elston Ave, Chicago 60618

Is Honey Butter Fried Chicken clean?

Honey Butter Fried Chicken is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on August 5, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Honey Butter Fried Chicken?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 5, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧼hand hygiene slippingcritical
  Proper Eating, Tasting, Drinking, Or Tobacco Use • OBSERVED FOOD EMPLOYEE DRINKING FROM UNCOVERED BEVERAGE CONTAINER IN THE REAR KITCHEN/WAREWASHING AREA. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE DESIGNATED AREA FOR EMPLOYEES TO EAT, DRINK, OR USE TOBACCO THAT DOES NOT POSE RISK OF CONTAMINATION OF FOOD, CLEAN EQUIPMENT, OR UTENSILS AND MAINTAIN.
• 🌡️thermometers missing
  Thermometers Provided & Accurate • OBSERVED NO INTERNAL AMBIENT AIR THERMOMETER PROVIDED AT THE 3-DOOR UPRIGHT BEVERAGE COOLER. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE AT LEAST ONE INTERNAL AMBIENT AIR THERMOMETER IN A CONSPICUOUS AND EASILY-VIEWABLE LOCATION INSIDE ALL EQUIPMENT USED TO COLD-HOLD TCS FOOD ITEMS AND MAINTAIN AT ALL TIMES.
• 🏷️food improperly labeled
  Food Properly Labeled; Original Container • OBSERVED LABELS NOT PROVIDED ON BULK DRY FOOD CONTAINERS IN THE REAR KITCHEN AREA. INSTRUCTED TO LABEL ALL BULK DRY FOOD CONTAINERS WITH THE COMMON NAME OF THE FOOD ITEM STORED AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED SINGLE-SERVICE ITEMS (TO-GO BOXES, PLASTIC CUPS) IN ORIGINAL BOXES STORED DIRECTLY ON THE FLOOR OF THE BASEMENT AREA. INSTRUCTED TO STORE SINGLE-SERVICE/SINGLE-USE ARTICLES AT LEAST 6" ABOVE THE FLOOR AND MAINTAIN AT ALL TIMES.
  Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED SINGLE-SERVICE ITEMS (TO-GO BOXES, PLASTIC CUPS) IN ORIGINAL BOXES STORED DIRECTLY ON THE FLOOR OF THE BASEMENT AREA. INSTRUCTED TO STORE SINGLE-SERVICE/SINGLE-USE ARTICLES AT LEAST 6" ABOVE THE FLOOR AND MAINTAIN AT ALL TIMES.
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • OBSERVED NONFOOD-CONTACT SURFACES OF THE ICE MACHINE TO BE SOILED WITH DUST DEBRIS AND OTHER SOIL. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN NONFOOD-CONTACT SURFACES OF EQUIPMENT AT ADEQUATE FREQUENCY TO PREVENT BUILD UP OF DUST DEBRIS AND OTHER SOILS AND MAINTAIN.

When was Honey Butter Fried Chicken last inspected?

Honey Butter Fried Chicken has 19 inspections on record going back to August 27, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Honey Butter Fried Chicken vs Avondale

Avondale runs 64% clean across 679 tracked restaurants — 432 clean, 111 mid, 133 cooked.

Against the 679 spots Cooked tracks in Avondale, this one comes out cleaner than 36% of them.

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How Chicago grades restaurants

Chicago does not use letter grades. Every inspection ends in one of three official results: Pass, Pass with Conditions, or Fail. Pass with Conditions means violations were found but corrected on the spot or under a deadline — the restaurant is open, with homework. A Fail means serious violations went uncorrected, and it usually brings a re-inspection within days. Chicago also flags “priority” violations, the ones most likely to actually make someone sick. Cooked reads Pass as clean, Pass with Conditions as mid, and Fail as cooked, and shows the itemized violations behind each result.

Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated August 5, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.