The restaurants we featured this week have all been open for well over a decade, which is multiple lifetimes you’re talking about a dining establishment. This is something I love about the Chicago dining scene. Despite the never-ending stream of new restaurants, there are still so many classics that have stuck around and continue to be strongly supported by the community.

The best defense for a Chicago winter is soup, soup, and more soup, which is what makes the week-long Soup Fest at Rockit Bar & Grill and Rockit Burger Bar the quintessential winter celebration. All week long from February 3 through February 7, the restaurants are offering up a slew of soups, featuring a different variety each day, plus an alphabetical blast from the past.\

Chicago is a city saturated with destination-worthy bars, presided over by masterful mixologists shaking up killer potables. So it makes sense that bartenders would mingle and share the love with one another. CH Distillery celebrates its compatriots with a new guest bartender series kicking off next month, wherein a different mixologist makes a one-night-only cameo behind the CH bar on the second Tuesday of every month