Chipotle Honey Chicken: Calories, Protein & Availability (2026)

Some limited-time items come and go quietly. Chipotle Honey Chicken did the opposite: it debuted in 2025, became the best-selling limited-time offering Chipotle has ever run, left, and then got brought back by demand. It’s the sweet-heat chicken that keeps refusing to leave the menu — and right now, it’s here.

What Is Chipotle Honey Chicken?

Honey Chicken is Chipotle’s regular grilled chicken given the LTO treatment: marinated and finished with honey and chipotle chiles, so you get a sticky, caramelised sweetness up front and a slow chile warmth behind it. It’s noticeably sweeter than the standard adobo chicken and a little smokier, but it’s the same style of freshly grilled, hand-cut chicken underneath — this isn’t a breaded or fried product, and it works in every entrée the regular chicken does.

Chipotle launched it in 2025 as a limited-time protein, where it outperformed every LTO the chain had run before it. When it rotated off, it became one of the most requested returns in the company’s inbox, so it came back on 28 April 2026 in the US, Canada, the UK, France and Germany. This run also put it in the High Protein Cup for the first time.

How It’s Served

Anywhere chicken goes, Honey Chicken goes. The popular builds:

• Burrito bowl — the default order: rice, beans, Honey Chicken, salsa, and your toppings.
• Burrito — same build wrapped in the flour tortilla, if you want the full 320-calorie wrap with it.
• Tacos and quesadilla — the glaze works particularly well in the quesadilla, where it meets melted cheese.
• Salad — over the Supergreens base, usually with the chipotle-honey vinaigrette for people who want the sweet theme all the way through.
• High Protein Cup — new for this run: a protein-focused cup format for a quick, lower-carb hit.

Double protein is available, as with any protein, and the item pairs best with the fresh tomato salsa or the roasted chili-corn salsa if you want to balance the sweetness rather than add the vinaigrette’s extra sugar on top.

Chipotle Honey Chicken Nutrition

Here’s the honest position: Chipotle’s current official US nutrition menu (the March 2025 edition) does not publish a nutrition row for Honey Chicken — limited-time items aren’t in it. So we won’t invent one. What we can do is show you the official figures for the regular chicken it’s built on, and a clearly labelled estimate for a standard build.

Chipotle’s published nutrition for a 4 oz serving of its regular grilled chicken is 180 calories, 32 g protein, 0 g carbs, 0 g sugar, 7 g fat and 310 mg sodium. The honey glaze adds honey — which means Honey Chicken will land somewhat higher on sugar and carbs than those numbers, while the protein content of the chicken itself stays in the same territory. Our chicken nutrition breakdown covers the base protein in full.

That estimate is calculated from Chipotle’s official ingredient nutrition for a bowl of white rice, black beans, a chicken serving and fresh tomato salsa — treat it as a floor, not an official figure, because the honey glaze itself isn’t in Chipotle’s published data and will add some sugar on top. Cheese (+110), sour cream (+110) and guacamole (+230) move the total the same way they do on any bowl. For the complete official chart across all permanent ingredients, see our Chipotle nutrition facts page, and for your exact build, the calculator on our homepage is the fastest route.

Price

Honey Chicken is priced as a chicken entrée — it doesn’t carry a special LTO surcharge. Typical US pricing puts a chicken burrito, bowl or salad starting from $11.35, with guacamole adding about $2.95 on a meat entrée and double protein about $3.00. Prices are set per restaurant, so your local total may differ; the full item-by-item list is on our menu prices page (linked from the full Chipotle menu).

Honey Chicken vs Regular Chicken

Side by side, the choice comes down to flavour and availability, not format. Regular chicken is adobo-seasoned, savoury, and always there — 180 calories and 32 g protein per serving, fully documented in Chipotle’s official nutrition menu. Honey Chicken is the same grilled chicken idea with a sweet-heat glaze: richer flavour, a bit of extra sugar from the honey, and no official US nutrition row while it’s an LTO. It’s also time-limited, which is the real difference — regular chicken will wait for you, Honey Chicken won’t.

If you’re tracking macros strictly, regular chicken is the safer pick because every number is published. If you’re ordering for taste and your bowl is otherwise a standard build, Honey Chicken is the more interesting plate of food, and the difference the glaze makes is small next to choices like cheese, sour cream and guac.

FAQs

Is Chipotle Honey Chicken still available?

Yes. Honey Chicken returned to the menu on 28 April 2026 and is still available as of November 2026. It’s a limited-time item with no announced end date, so it will rotate off again at some point — Chipotle just hasn’t said when.

How many calories are in Chipotle Honey Chicken?

Chipotle doesn’t publish a US nutrition row for Honey Chicken in its official nutrition menu, because it’s a limited-time item. The regular chicken it’s based on is 180 calories per 4 oz serving, and a standard bowl built with rice, beans and salsa works out to roughly 545 calories before the glaze and toppings, calculated from Chipotle’s official ingredient figures — so treat that as a floor rather than an official total.

Is Chipotle Honey Chicken spicy?

Mildly. The honey leads, so the first taste is sweet, and the chipotle chiles bring a gentle warmth rather than real heat. If you eat the regular chicken comfortably, Honey Chicken won’t trouble you — it’s sweeter, not fierier.

When did Chipotle Honey Chicken come back?

It returned on 28 April 2026 across the US, Canada, the UK, France and Germany, after debuting in 2025 and becoming Chipotle’s best-selling limited-time offering ever. This run also added it to the High Protein Cup for the first time.

Is Chipotle Honey Chicken gluten-free?

Chipotle’s standard allergen chart doesn’t cover limited-time items, and the company notes that LTOs may include allergens not identified on the chart. The regular proteins carry no gluten flags and flour tortillas are the only gluten item on the standard menu, but if you need certainty, ask at the restaurant before ordering.

Want the exact numbers for your version of the order? Build it in the Chipotle nutrition calculator — pick your entrée, swap in your protein and toppings, and get your calories, protein, carbs, fat and sodium in seconds.