Walk-in only, second floor — door is on Avenue B. Verified against the venue's site, 2026.
Pouring Ribbons sits one flight up on Avenue B between 13th and 14th, in a room opened in 2012 by Joaquín Simó, Toby Maloney, Jane Danger, and Troy Sidle — a Death & Co alumnus and three partners with their own list of credits. The bar made the World's 50 Best Bars list in 2014, 2015, and 2016, and Simó was named American Bartender of the Year by Tales of the Cocktail in 2012.
It is the right room for a slow second drink with someone who knows what amaro is, or a one-flight detour after dinner in Alphabet City. It is the wrong room for groups larger than four or anyone hoping for a fast first drink — service is paced. Punch Magazine called the menu structure 'one of the most-copied cocktail formats of the past decade.'
A long narrow second-floor space with high ceilings, exposed brick, and a back wall lined with the Amaro library — over 200 bottles, ladder-accessed. Eater New York's coverage describes the layout as 'a long bar facing the bottles, booths on the opposite wall.' The lighting is low; the playlist is jazz-leaning.
The cocktail menu is laid out as a four-quadrant grid: refreshing/spirituous on one axis, comforting/adventurous on the other. Pick a quadrant, order from it, trust the bar. The Spirituous & Adventurous corner runs $18 and is the strongest. The Amaro list is the second draw — ask for a half-pour ($14) of something you have never had. Regulars on r/cocktails consistently recommend skipping the food menu (it is small) and ordering an extra round.
Industry bartenders early in the night (18:00 to 20:00); a mixed cocktail crowd 20:00 to 23:00; quieter and tighter after midnight. Time Out New York's Alphabet City bar guide notes the room fills by 21:00 on Friday and Saturday and that the booths turn over slowly.
Pouring Ribbons official site; Punch Magazine; The Infatuation; Eater New York; Time Out New York; r/cocktails; r/AskNYC; World's 50 Best Bars archive.