New York City department stores have uncovered a relationship between mules and Moscow mules.

In the basement of the new Nordstrom flagship on West 57th Street, a few feet from the women’s shoe department, is the Shoe Bar, serving sparkling wine by the glass and bottle, as well as cocktails with names like Corpse Reviver 212.

Le Chalet, a woody, après-ski-like bar that opened in February on the eighth floor of Saks Fifth Avenue, is also steps from the shoe department. In the cozy alcove, decorated with books, antlers and skiing apparatus, shoppers can order from a wide selection of rums, mezcals and whiskeys, or cocktails created by the noted bartender Nico de Soto.