On the floor here
Audit and training happen in service, not in a borrowed kitchen. At Vine Bar the Explorers menu was written, costed, and trained so it survived a full New York room — the case.
Bar consultant · New York City
A New York bar consultant who still works the floor.
Drinks By Neat is based in New York. Andreas Sanidiotis builds and fixes bar programs in the room — Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the rest of the city — then does the same on-site and remote for rooms that are not here. Local proof: Vine Bar. Public record: World’s 50 Best #25, two Tales nominations, Austin, Nicosia, Abu Dhabi.
#25 in the worldWorld’s 50 Best Bars, 2018 — a program built and run from behind the bar
9 straight yearson the World’s 50 Best lists, 2015–2023
2× Tales Top 10Spirited Awards nominations in one year — Cocktail Bar & Bar Team, 2018
3 continentsprograms in New York, Austin, Nicosia, and Abu Dhabi
Why the city is its own brief
NYC rooms fail in NYC ways. The work is local.
Tight prep space. High labor. Guests who have already had the drink somewhere better. A neighborhood bar and a destination list are different businesses that share a liquor license. Consulting from a deck written for another city wastes a month you do not have.
Built for this labor market
Train-the-trainer is not a slogan in New York. Turnover is the default. The handoff is a spec book and a team that can onboard the next hire without a consultant on speed-dial. Refresh scope.
Still works elsewhere
Austin, Nicosia, Abu Dhabi were intensive on-site blocks with remote development between them. If the room is not in New York, that is the model — bar consultant for the operations hire anywhere.
The rest of the record is public and not local: nine years on the World’s 50 Best lists at Lost & Found, a Spirited Awards honoree in Austin within twelve months at Here Nor There / In Plain Sight. That is the floor the New York work is held to.
Related consulting
New York is the city. Not the only job.
This page is the local hire. The others are the same practice with a different angle — use them so the search result matches the brief.
Operations, any city
Full bar operations consulting — pour cost, prep, suppliers, training — without the NYC-only frame. Bar consultant.
Hotel F&B
Property openings and running hotel bars, including New York hotels. Hotel bar consultant.
Category vs. drinks
Hotels, restaurants, and bars as a category: beverage consultant. Menus and technique: cocktail consultant.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Are you a bar consultant based in New York?
Yes. Drinks By Neat is the New York practice of Andreas Sanidiotis. NYC engagements get regular floor time — menu work, costing, and training done in the room, not only on a call.
Do you only work with New York bars?
No. The practice is based in New York and built for anywhere. Programs have been delivered in Austin, Nicosia, and Abu Dhabi. Work outside NYC typically runs as intensive on-site blocks with remote development between them.
What New York venues have you worked with?
Vine Bar in Brooklyn — the Explorers menu, from concept to nightly service, with costed specs and team training so the ambition held under a full room. The wider public record includes World’s 50 Best work in Nicosia and Spirited Awards work in Austin.
Can you consult a New York bar without a full rebuild?
Yes. A Program Refresh is a two-week audit across live service, a re-costed menu of ten to eighteen drinks, and team retraining — six to ten weeks end to end. Most NYC rooms that call do not need a new concept. They need the existing one to hit its number.
How do NYC engagements typically run?
A call, then a fixed-scope proposal. On-site blocks for audit, R&D, and training, with remote costing and spec work between visits. You know the fee before work starts. Liquor-license consulting is not included; a referral is available on request. Contact or book the call.
Next step
Fifteen minutes usually answers it.
Tell us the neighborhood, the room, and what is not working — you’ll leave the call knowing whether this is a New York floor job or a remote-plus-blocks engagement.