Nikos Bakoulis has felt most alive behind a bar for the past 17 years. He believes he has been doing the world’s most creative job since starting out in Thessaloniki and ending up in Athens, the city that has become the anchor point in his globe-trotting professional career. In 2011, he was proclaimed Bartender of the Year at World Class Greece and since then his bartending Odyssey has led him to become one of the co-founders of the internationally acclaimed The Clumsies Bar, of the Otto’s Athens Vermouth as well as The Clumsies Original Cocktails. In 2015 its opening year, The Clumsies Bar gained a place in the top four of the Tales of the Cocktail (held in the USA) best new international bar awards and reached number 22 in the World’s 50 Best Bars. In 2016, The Clumsies was in the final four of the Tales of the Cocktail Best International High Volume Bars and climbed to the 9th position in the World’s 50 Best Bars competition. Since then and for four consecutive years The Clumsies Bar has been consistently included in the top ten of the renowned World's 50 best bars, conquering for two years (2017 and 2019) the 6th position. In 2020 it rose to 3rd position and in 2021 at No.4. For 2022 The Clumsies ranked in position19 In 2021, Nikos was included in the list of the top 100 most influential personalities of the industry by Drinks International. In 2022, he made one of his life-long dreams come true and co-founded LINE Athens, a bar whose philosophy and ethos revolve around sustainability. Only 6 months after its opening, LINE was included in the World’s 50 Best Bars in position 31, and climbed all the way to position 12, a year after. Nikos continues to get inspiration from a wide range of sources, to create innovative recipes, to mix for the customers at The Clumsies Bar and to travel the world, remaining thankful to have what he calls “the most stimulating job on the planet”.