Best Mocktails in Indianapolis, IN
Indianapolis had a dedicated alcohol-free bar and lost it. Memento Zero Proof — billed as Indiana's first — opened in Fishers in October 2023 and closed permanently about a year later after its owners could not agree new lease terms; several city guides still list it. So the honest picture in 2026 is that the metro has no alcohol-free cocktail bar, and what it has instead is unusually good depth inside ordinary bars plus a scattered set of fully alcohol-free rooms. The retail anchor is Orangily, opened in Carmel in 2022 by sisters Andrea Simpson and Kristin Patrick as Loren's Alcohol-Free Beverages, which added a second shop on East 54th Street in SoBro in March 2025 — the only non-alcoholic bottle shop inside Marion County. Massachusetts Avenue carries the zero-proof density: The Ball & Biscuit, Indiana's original craft cocktail bar since 2010, prints seven named non-alcoholic drinks including a Spritz AF on Lyre's and Fre; The Fountain Room, the Wisconsin-style supper club in the Bottleworks District, runs a printed "No ABV" section; Sundry & Vice builds Seedlip Grove into 24 Carrot Magic; and BODHI, women-owned and family-run, layers Lyre's and Fre Rosé into the Water Lily Dessert. Fountain Square is the other pocket worth walking: The Inferno Room, Ed Rudisell's 2018 tiki bar, prints a MOCKTAILS section of layered $10 builds three blocks from Nine Lives, the alcohol-free cat café Kelley Niiyama has run since 2020. Elsewhere, Sun King brews its own N/A Sunlight Cream Ale at the Cole-Noble taproom, SKOSH in Garfield Park calls itself Indy's first SlowBar and is alcohol-free throughout, and Seedlip turns up in four venues across the city. The Mood in Fishers is the metro's only kava lounge — no alcohol, but kava is psychoactive and the same counter sells hemp-derived THC, which is worth knowing before you go.
20 verified venues · 17 with named NA cocktails on menu
Named NA cocktails on the menu
These Indianapolis venues list specific non-alcoholic cocktails on their published menus.
- ★★★★★?
16-Bit is a 21-and-over retro arcade bar on East New York Street downtown, where the cabinet games are free to play and the money is made at the bar. That model happens to make it one of the easier nights out in Indianapolis for someone who is not drinking, because the reason to be there is the arcade rather than the round. The non-alcoholic list is longer than most bars manage and every drink is named in the same register as the cocktails: Kissed By A Rose is built on Seedlip Garden 108 with hibiscus, lemon, rose and mint, Gym Class Zero runs desert pear with lime and tonic, and Pinky and the Brain, Optimus Prime and Lisa Simpson fill out the simpler end.
Signature NA drinks- Kissed By A Rose (Seedlip Garden 108, hibiscus, lemon, rose, mint)
- Gym Class Zero (desert pear, lime, tonic)
- Pinky and the Brain (fruit punch, lemonade)
- Optimus Prime (lemonade, cranberry juice, Sprite)
- Lisa Simpson (Sprite, grenadine, cherry)
- ★★★★★?
Tea's Me is an alcohol-free tea café owned by Tamika Catchings, the Indiana Fever forward, four-time Olympic gold medallist and Basketball Hall of Famer, who bought the business in 2017 after retiring. The tea list is the point: loose-leaf blends sourced worldwide and served properly, among them Vanilla Rooibos, Honeybush, a Sparkling Wine herbal infusion, Earl Grey, Japanese Cherry green and Raspberry Champagne white, alongside coffee and a short breakfast and lunch menu. Catchings launched a bottled line into local grocery in 2023 and has used the cafés as a first-job pipeline for Indianapolis teenagers. Note that the company contracted sharply in 2026: the original 22nd Street shop and the Tarkington Park community café have both closed, and this campus location at IU Indianapolis is the one that remains.
Signature NA drinks- Vanilla Rooibos
- Japanese Cherry green tea
- Raspberry Champagne white tea
- Honeybush
- ★★★★★?
The Ball & Biscuit opened on Massachusetts Avenue in June 2010 and is generally credited as Indiana's first craft cocktail bar. It was founded by local attorney Trevor Belden with bartender Zach Wilks, who later left to build the Wilks & Wilson syrup line, and takes its name from the 1930s ribbon microphone nicknamed the ball and biscuit — vintage mics and music gear are part of the fit-out. For a bar of that vintage the non-alcoholic list is unusually developed: seven named zero-proof drinks stand alongside the full-proof menu rather than in a footnote, including the Spritz AF built on Lyre's Italian Orange and Aperitif Rosso with Fre sparkling brut, the Twist of Fate, the New Fashioned and the floral Whole Garden.
Signature NA drinks- Spritz AF (Lyre's Italian Orange, Lyre's Aperitif Rosso, lemon, orange juice, Fre non-alcoholic sparkling brut)
- Twist of Fate (zero-proof spirit, ginger syrup, basil concentrate, lemon, club soda)
- New Fashioned (alcohol-free old fashioned)
- The Whole Garden (zero-proof brut, floral)
- ★★★★★?
The Fountain Room is a Wisconsin-style supper club in the Bottleworks District, opened in the summer of 2022 by the father-and-son restaurant team Perry and Blake Fogelsong after a pandemic-era trip north. The room is Art Deco jazz-age — velvet banquettes, chandeliers, a reel-to-reel machine — and OpenTable and People named it one of America's fifty most beautiful restaurants. The food is supper-club canon: pickled relish trays, prime rib, house desserts. Non-alcoholic drinks get their own printed "No ABV" section rather than a line at the bottom of the cocktail list, running to the Crouching Tiger, Circle City Sober, a Cherry Burlesque built on cherry, lime, honey syrup, ginger beer and mint, and an alcohol-removed Sauvignon Blanc by the glass.
Signature NA drinks- Crouching Tiger (peach purée, pear, lime, ginger beer)
- Cherry Burlesque (cherry, lime, honey syrup, ginger beer, mint)
- Circle City Sober
- Non-alcoholic Sauvignon Blanc by the glass
- ★★★★★?
Nine Lives is a fully alcohol-free café and cat lounge on Shelby Street in Fountain Square, and was the first cat café in Indiana when it opened in 2017. Kelley Niiyama and her husband Hidetaka took it over in March 2020 and have run it since, pairing an espresso bar with a separate lounge of adoptable cats placed through IndyAdopts, the nonprofit they founded in 2021. The drinks list is short and made properly: the house Café Meow is a honey and cinnamon latte, the chai is a standing favourite, and every drink comes in a 12oz "kitten" or 16oz "cat". Pastries come from the vegan bakery Sea Salt & Cinnamon. Lounge sessions are best reserved; the room is all-ages until 1pm, 13+ until 5pm and 18+ after.
Signature NA drinks- Café Meow (honey and cinnamon latte)
- House chai latte
- Matcha latte
- ★★★★★?
The Inferno Room is a tiki bar on Virginia Avenue in Fountain Square, opened on 11 September 2018 by longtime tiki collector Ed Rudisell with his wife Sasatorn Rudisell and partner Chris Coy, in a building that once held a Marion County courthouse. It holds what the bar describes as one of the largest collections of Papua New Guinea art outside a museum, split across the Kahuna Lounge and the Luau Room. The non-alcoholic drinks are printed as their own MOCKTAILS section of the cocktail menu at $10 each — the Coocoonut Grove, The Way to Eden and Veiled Virtues — built to the same tropical, layered spec as the rum drinks rather than reduced to fruit juice.
Signature NA drinks- Coocoonut Grove (coconut, pineapple, cinnamon, walnut bitters, lemon)
- The Way to Eden (passion fruit, orgeat, pineapple, kiwi, prickly pear, lemon)
- Veiled Virtues (strawberry, cinnamon, coconut, pineapple, lemon, orange juice)
- ★★★★★?
Cannon Ball Lounge sits six floors up on the roof of Hotel Indy on East Washington Street, and is the only indoor-outdoor rooftop bar downtown — which matters in a city with four distinct seasons. It is named for Erwin "Cannonball" Baker, the Indianapolis motorcyclist who rode in the first Indianapolis 500 and set transcontinental records for decades afterwards, and the drinks list leans on local reference points throughout. The non-alcoholic drinks are a printed zero-proof section rather than an afterthought: I Miss My Spritz is built on DHOS Bittersweet Aperitif and non-alcoholic sparkling wine, Good Graces runs lemon, guava and honey against New Orleans non-alcoholic bitters and ginger beer, and the Tail of Thyme uses a house plum-lavender syrup.
Signature NA drinks- I Miss My Spritz (DHOS Bittersweet Aperitif, non-alcoholic sparkling wine)
- Good Graces (lemon, guava, honey, New Orleans non-alcoholic bitters, orange, ginger beer)
- Tail of Thyme (house plum-lavender syrup)
- ★★★★★?
The Mood is a kava bar and botanical shop on Mundy Drive in Fishers, established in 2021 and the Indianapolis metro's first dedicated kava retailer. It was founded by a retired Eli Lilly immunopharmacology researcher, Dr. Hatfield, alongside Taylor Hatfield, and the front of the shop sells herbal supplements while a kava bar runs at the back with a free-to-play arcade and lounge attached. No alcohol is served. It is important to know what is on offer before you go: alongside kava the shop sells kratom-adjacent botanicals including blue lotus, kanna, klip dagga and mad honey, plus CBD, hemp-derived delta products and vapes. Kava contains no alcohol but is psychoactive and sedating, and the room is 21+.
Signature NA drinks- Piña Colada kava shell
- Pumpkin Spice kava shell
- ★★★★★?
BODHI is a 21-and-over Thai craft cocktail bar and bistro at the far end of Massachusetts Avenue, run by Taelor Carmine alongside her mother Nicky Carmine and grandmother Pen Phojanasupan, both of whom spent years in Thai restaurant kitchens. It is women-owned and family-run, with a pan-Thai menu built from recipes passed down through the three of them. The bar treats zero-proof as a build rather than a substitution: the Water Lily Dessert layers Lyre's Dry London Spirit and Fre Rosé over coconut water, strawberry shrub, lychee jelly and soda, and the rotating Secret Garden leans on seasonal fruit and vegetables. Seedlip appears in the seasonal list. The kitchen closes an hour before the bar does.
Signature NA drinks- Water Lily Dessert (Lyre's Dry London Spirit, Fre Rosé, coconut water, strawberry shrub, lychee jelly, soda)
- Secret Garden (rotating seasonal fruit and herb build)
- ★★★★★?
Sundry & Vice is an apothecary-themed cocktail bar inside the Bottleworks Hotel at the top of Massachusetts Avenue, opened on 23 October 2021 as the second location of the Cincinnati bar of the same name in Over-the-Rhine. The fit-out runs to pharmacy cabinetry, tincture bottles and a soda-fountain sensibility, and the program is built on house-made syrups, freshly squeezed juice and cocktails on draft. That component-driven approach is why the zero-proof drinks work: The Young and the Spiritless layers Spiritless non-alcoholic bourbon with pineapple, cinnamon, orgeat, plum bitters, mint and ginger beer, and 24 Carrot Magic builds Seedlip Grove over carrot, lemon, pineapple, black pepper and ginger.
Signature NA drinks- The Young and the Spiritless (Spiritless non-alcoholic bourbon, pineapple, cinnamon, orgeat, plum bitters, mint, ginger beer)
- 24 Carrot Magic (Seedlip Grove, carrot, lemon, pineapple, black pepper, ginger)
- ★★★★★?
SKOSH opened on Shelby Street in Garfield Park on 14 November 2023 and describes itself as Indy's first SlowBar — a room built around coffee, tea and zero-proof cocktails at a deliberately unhurried pace, with baked goods, live music and a floor of furniture, art and home decor that is all for sale. It is fully alcohol-free. Founder Haley Hilts runs the interior design practice Authentique Design Collective, which explains the fit-out: 1,600 square feet of vintage furnishings and modern pieces arranged so that everything you sit on can be bought. Coffee comes from Illumine Coffee Co., and the drinks list runs to wellness shots, tea and named non-alcoholic builds such as the Fringe, a garden margarita.
Signature NA drinks- Fringe (garden margarita, zero-proof)
- Wellness shots
- ★★★★★?
Sun King is Indianapolis's largest independent brewery, founded in 2009, and its original downtown taproom sits on North College Avenue in the Cole-Noble district. It is on this list because it brews its own non-alcoholic beer rather than stocking someone else's: the N/A Sunlight Cream Ale is an alcohol-free version of Sunlight, the award-winning flagship, at under 0.5% ABV and available year-round. Visit Indy counts two Sun King brews reimagined without alcohol alongside guest zero-proof beers and four classic mocktails at the taproom. One caution worth knowing before you go: Sun King also cans hemp-derived THC seltzers under its Sun King Hemp line, and those are sold in the same room.
Signature NA drinks- N/A Sunlight Cream Ale (alcohol-free version of the flagship cream ale, under 0.5% ABV)
- ★★★★★?
8th Day is a small-batch distillery, bottle shop and cocktail bar in the Circle City Industrial Complex on the Near Eastside, run by Matt and Jaime Lamping. They signed the lease in 2015 and began filling bourbon barrels, launched gin and rum into Indianapolis bars and shops, and opened the bottle shop and cocktail bar to the public in 2018. The room is deliberately living-room-ish, with a new local artist's work shown every quarter and regular pop-ups with other Indianapolis businesses. Mocktails sit on the rotating seasonal menu alongside the cocktails as a matter of course — the Overalls. is lemon with a lavender-thyme simple syrup and soda water.
Signature NA drinks- Overalls. (lemon, lavender-thyme simple syrup, soda water)
- ★★★★★?
Kan-Kan opened on 20 August 2021 in Windsor Park on the Near Eastside and combines a four-screen arthouse cinema with a full brasserie and bar — you can eat a proper dinner, see a restored print or a first-run independent film, and never be in a room organised around drinking. The kitchen was set up under executive chef Abbi Merriss, a five-time James Beard nominee who also oversees Bluebeard, and beverage director Dimitri Morris runs an elaborate cocktail list with a seasonal zero-proof section on it. Indianapolis Monthly singled out the mocktails as equally well crafted, naming the tropical Rupert Holmes, a frothy build of coconut, lime, orange and pineapple soda.
Signature NA drinks- Rupert Holmes (coconut, lime, orange, pineapple soda)
- ★★★★★?
Snug is a 600-square-foot Irish pub in Irvington that opened on 2 January 2024 in a former hair salon, taking its name from the small private room in a traditional Irish bar. Jim Arnoldt runs it with Carey Shea and Timothy Barrett, and the shelves hold more than ninety Irish whiskeys, which is the most serious collection of its kind in Indiana. What earns it a place here is that the alcohol-free side is treated as part of the offer rather than a concession — the bar makes a seasonal alcohol-free punch and keeps non-alcoholic options alongside the whiskey and the Guinness. The room seats very few people, so it fills quickly on a Friday.
Signature NA drinks- Seasonal alcohol-free punch
- ★★★★★?
Union Jack Pub is a long-running British-styled pizza pub on Broad Ripple Avenue, and one of the neighbourhood's fixtures. Its non-alcoholic offer is narrower than a cocktail bar's but properly made: the Elderflower Garden builds Seedlip Garden — the pea and garden-herb expression of the London non-alcoholic distillate — over an elderflower simple syrup and tonic, which drinks like a proper gin and tonic substitute rather than a sweet mocktail. It is an all-day room, open from 11am on weekdays and 10am at weekends, which makes it usable for lunch as well as an evening. The company's Speedway location, open 41 years, closed permanently; the Broad Ripple pub is the one still trading.
Signature NA drinks- Elderflower Garden (Seedlip Garden, elderflower simple syrup, tonic)
- ★★★★★?
Cholita is a Los Angeles-style taqueria on Broad Ripple Avenue serving tacos and Mexican street food, with a bar that takes its non-alcoholic drinks seriously enough to build them from a proper base. The Fauxjito is the drink Indy Maven picked out: Seedlip Garden 108 — the herbal expression made from peas, rosemary, thyme and spearmint — worked into a mojito structure with lime and mint, so the herbal weight comes from the distillate rather than from sugar. In a neighbourhood whose bar scene runs heavily to margaritas and late-night drinking, a restaurant with a competent zero-proof build and a full dinner menu is a genuinely useful thing to know about.
Signature NA drinks- Fauxjito (Seedlip Garden 108, lime, mint)
More NA-friendly venues in Indianapolis
These venues have NA programs but haven't published a specific mocktail menu we can quote — call ahead or ask your bartender.
What makes a great mocktail?
A great mocktail isn't just a cocktail with the alcohol removed. The best non-alcoholic drinks are designed from the ground up around the flavor profile, mouthfeel, and ritual of a craft cocktail — without leaning on alcohol as a shortcut.
The signal: named drinks on a published menu, fresh-pressed juices, house-made shrubs or syrups, bitters and tinctures for complexity, and increasingly an NA-spirits section (Lyre's, Seedlip, Ritual, Wilderton, and others) used the same way a cocktail bar uses gin or whiskey. The opposite: an off-menu "we can make something" with no specific drinks, defaulting to soda, juice, or sparkling water.
That distinction is why we rank venues by mocktail menu depth and NA Program Strength rather than treating every "mocktail option" as equal. A bar that lists three named NA cocktails on its printed menu is doing the work; a bar that says "we can probably do something" is not.
Frequently asked about mocktails in Indianapolis
17 venues in Indianapolis serve named non-alcoholic cocktails on their menu. Top picks include 16-Bit Bar+Arcade, Tea's Me Cafe, The Ball & Biscuit.
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