Honey Butter Fried Chicken, Chicago

###Four Things to Know about Honey Butter Fried Chicken Honey Butter Fried Chicken keeps things simple. Its name is also its signature item, which creates a satisfying blend of salty, spicy fried chicken with sweet, creamy honey butter. Read on to learn more about this no-nonsense spot: * **The honey butter on their chicken began as an accident.** Executive chefs Christine Cikowski and Joshua Kulp have a long history of perfecting fried chicken. But it wasn’t until the honey butter on a cornbread griddle cake melted onto a piece of chicken that the two realized just how good the pairing was. * **They’re environmentally friendly.** All the restaurant’s packaging is biodegradable and compostable, and whenever they have leftover frying oil, it’s sold back to their supplier for use as biodiesel fuel instead of being dumped out. * **Their chicken goes great on pizza.** So much so, in fact, that Piece pizza and brewery partners with Honey Butter to create limited-time pies topped with pieces of their signature chicken. * **The sides are always changing.** Honey Butter Fried Chicken changes up its side dishes—whose ingredients are sourced from local farmers markets and local businesses—to correspond with what’s in season at the time.