Sip & Guzzle

Two bars, one townhouse, and the staircase between them is the entire idea.Upstairs is Guzzle. Loud in the right way, wood everywhere, run by Steve Schneider — years at Employees Only, one of about four American bartenders civilians can actually name. The list is built to be drunk rather than admired: Japanese beers, highballs poured properly, cocktails the bar itself calls crushable. Order the Saketini to test them. Banana vodka, sake and Fino sherry sounds like a dare and drinks like…