A guy walks into his regular bar, a beer-and-shot kind of bar, at half past 6 on a Saturday. He walks in wanting a beer, but the woman behind the bar is a new girl, and her unfamiliar face combines ...

The gimlet, or something resembling it, dates to the turn of the nineteenth century, and having watched many of its contemporaries—old-fashioneds, classic daiquiris—become bartenders’ darlings of late ...