Love and bitters, literally. Avery and Janet Glasser’s from-the-heart startup, Bittermens, Inc., found fame for flavors like chocolate-chile and hibiscus-açai. Photo by Susanna Blavarg.

The bar of the Lincoln offers dozens of "Negronis" using new gins, bitters and vermouths. Photo by Michael Gross.

For Saké’s Sake. Rick Smith and Hiroko Furukawa stock 150 bottles at their Ninth Street store—the only sake specialty shop on the East Coast. Photo by Elizabeth Leitzell.

Bemelmans Bar, an Upper East Side landmark, has been quietly keeping the hotel-bar torch burning for nearly three-quarters of a century inside the upper-class residential fortress known as the Carlyle.