Some say the Spanish first united coffee and alcohol. Moorish conquerors from the Umayyad caliphate brought the Iberian Peninsula coffee beans; conquistadors returned from the Caribbean with blood on their hands and âa hot, hellish, and terrible fuddlingâ called rum. According to lore, âthe rumbullion manâ walked the docks of Lisbonâthe JFK Airport of the 16th centuryâselling the two mixed restoratively together to shivering sailors. Present-day Spanish coffee is unsweet, unexpectedly complex, and exactly the giddyap-whoa that winter requires. Bartenders hate it; if they make one, with its enticing blue flame, theyâll be making them all night. Order it anyway. (Il Bistro, Rob Roy, Vitoâs, any other fine cocktail bar)