Get to know them in the pop-up-turned-permanence (or as permanent as any business is in New York City) that is Amor y Amargo. The name means “love and bitters”. The vintage pharmacy/soda-shop vibe starts with the gap-y vintage tiled floor, rises through the old-school bar, and expands into the wall-shelves of bitters and the window-shelves of bar kits, bitters and more.

Sother Teague’s background includes teaching at the New England Culinary Institute and bartending at Rye. Teague talks drolly about the difference between aperitifs and digestifs. It’s a question he likes to throw at people. Teague’s answer? “Frankly, there’s no difference. It’s a trick question.”

Teague does see distinctions, but they are subtle. “It’s become a protocol more than a difference.” That said, “The aperitif is going to be lighter, more citrusy, with some herbals. Digestifs are the darker, the thicker – the bitter.”

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