Sother Teague runs or owns several cocktail bars in New York, including Honeybee’s in the East Village, Windmill on the Lower East Side, and Amor y Amargo, which has outposts in the East Village and Williamsburg. So where does he spend his day off? In bars, just not his own.

Mr. Teague has a set route that keeps him bouncing between Brooklyn and Manhattan in pursuit of friends, Gibsons, steak and Old Overholt rye. A resident of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where the 50-year-old lives with his girlfriend, Natalie Czech, he follows the route so religiously (one bar he refers to as “church”) that, if you know his schedule, you will probably find him.

KICK-START I get up at 11 no matter what. It sets me into a routine. If I don’t, I’ll sleep until 2. I don’t drink coffee. The first thing I do every day is drink an Underberg bitters. I buy two or three cases at a time and then I whittle them away. I think it does the job it’s designed to do, which is kick-start your system.