Best Mocktails in Madison, WI
Madison is a capital city and a Big Ten college town in the state with America's heaviest drinking culture, which makes the depth of its zero-proof bartending genuinely surprising. Blind Shot Social Club at Garver Point runs what is reckoned the largest non-alcoholic programme in Wisconsin — 18 N/A cocktails, five alcohol-free wines and seven non-alcoholic beers, held year-round rather than trotted out each January — in a room built around golf simulators, so the evening has a point that is not the drink. The Capitol Square is the densest cluster: Merchant builds its No Regrets on a non-alcoholic gin with rosemary and lime, Lucille pours a Honeycrisp and Tart Cherry Mule, Eno Vino serves Leitz Eins Zwei Zero de-alcoholised sparkling rosé by the glass eight floors up, and Settle Down Tavern shakes its own. Nitro Beverage Lounge on West Washington does the most technical work in the city, smoking The Woodsman with lapsang souchong and setting chilli de árbol against pomegranate in the Arbol Bloom, while Public Parking on East Johnson — a Bon Appétit Best New Bar for 2025 and a James Beard semifinalist — gives its zero-proof build a name as long as its cocktails. The metro also makes the stuff: Untitled Art, one of the biggest non-alcoholic beer ranges in the country, is brewed at Octopi in Waunakee and poured in its taproom. What Madison does not have is a dedicated alcohol-free bar. Exactly two rooms here serve no alcohol at all — Rooted In Sanity, the city's only kava lounge, tucked below a healing-arts building on Williamson Street and open to 11pm at weekends, and Sober Social in Middleton, Wisconsin's first all-non-alcoholic bottle shop, which closes at 7pm. Note that kava is alcohol-free but psychoactive.
20 verified venues · 17 with named NA cocktails on menu
Named NA cocktails on the menu
These Madison venues list specific non-alcoholic cocktails on their published menus.
- ★★★★★?
Eno Vino Downtown is a wine bar and bistro on the eighth floor of the AC Hotel on North Webster Street, with views over the Capitol and Lake Monona, and it keeps a full mocktail menu rather than a token line. The named builds cover the ground a wine bar's customers actually ask for: a honey ginger lemon spritz, an apple cinnamon mule, a pal-no-ma and a strawberry nada-rita, plus Leitz Eins Zwei Zero non-alcoholic sparkling rosé by the glass — which matters in a room whose whole premise is wine. It opens at 4pm daily and runs to midnight, or 1am on Friday and Saturday.
Signature NA drinks- Honey ginger lemon spritz
- Apple cinnamon mule
- Pal-no-ma
- Strawberry nada-rita
- Leitz Eins Zwei Zero non-alcoholic sparkling rosé
- ★★★★★?
Nitro Beverage Lounge is a coffee bar and craft cocktail lounge on West Washington Avenue near the Capitol, and it puts more technique into its non-alcoholic drinks than anywhere else in Madison. The bartenders build mocktails the way they build cocktails, reaching for lapsang souchong to get smoke into The Woodsman rather than adding sugar. The standing list runs to the Rose Spritz on rose essence, lemon and soda; the Arbol Bloom, which sets pomegranate and hibiscus against chilli de árbol and lime; and I'd Rather Be On The Beach, a pistachio creme, banana, lemon, honey, coconut milk and banana leaf build that is closer to a dessert than a soft drink.
Signature NA drinks- The Woodsman (lapsang souchong tea, smoked)
- Rose Spritz (rose essence, lemon, soda)
- Arbol Bloom (pomegranate, hibiscus, chilli de árbol, lime)
- I'd Rather Be On The Beach (pistachio creme, banana, lemon, honey, coconut milk, banana leaf)
- ★★★★★?
Gates & Brovi is a neighbourhood American restaurant and bar on Monroe Street in Dudgeon-Monroe, the walkable stretch of shops and kitchens west of the UW campus, and it keeps a straightforward non-alcoholic list that covers what people actually order: an NA paloma, an NA margarita, an NA gin and tonic and a virgin bloody mary — the last of which is close to a civic requirement in Wisconsin. There is nothing avant-garde here, and that is the appeal; it is a well-run neighbourhood room where asking for a drink without alcohol produces a properly made one rather than a conversation. Weekend service starts at 9am.
Signature NA drinks- Non-alcoholic paloma
- Non-alcoholic margarita
- Non-alcoholic gin and tonic
- Virgin bloody mary
- ★★★★★?
Rooted In Sanity is Madison's first and only kava lounge, tucked at the back of the SolEscape Healing Arts Building on Williamson Street — lower level, down the ramp, following a painted teal line. Nothing served contains alcohol. It pours traditional kava by the shell alongside housemade mocktails, locally made teas and a full craft coffee menu, and furnishes the room for staying rather than drinking up: swinging chairs, couches and board games at the tables. It runs evening hours to 10pm most nights and 11pm at weekends, which makes it one of the very few genuinely alcohol-free rooms in Madison that is open when the bars are. Kava contains no alcohol but is psychoactive and mildly sedating.
Signature NA drinks- Traditional kava by the shell
- Housemade kava mocktails
- Craft coffee and locally made teas
- ★★★★★?
Blind Shot Social Club runs what is generally reckoned the largest non-alcoholic drink programme in Wisconsin: 18 N/A cocktails, five alcohol-free wines and seven non-alcoholic beers, held as a standing menu rather than a January promotion. It sits at Garver Point on South Fair Oaks Avenue on Madison's east side, is women-owned, and pairs the bar with five Trackman golf simulators, memberships, lessons and winter leagues — so the reason to be there is the golf, and the drink is incidental, which is exactly the structure that makes a night out workable for someone not drinking. The James Bond Style, built on non-alcoholic botanical gin and an N/A coffee liqueur, is the drink to order.
Signature NA drinks- James Bond Style (non-alcoholic botanical gin, N/A coffee liqueur)
- 18 rotating N/A cocktails
- Five alcohol-free wines and seven non-alcoholic beers
- ★★★★★?
Octopi Brewing in Waunakee, fifteen minutes north of Madison, is where Untitled Art is brewed — one of the largest and most inventive non-alcoholic beer lines in the United States, and the single biggest reason the Madison metro matters on a national alcohol-free map. Isaac Showaki founded Octopi and launched Untitled Art with Levi Funk of Funk Factory Geuzeria in December 2016; the non-alcoholic range is fully fermented and then stripped of ethanol by reverse osmosis, which preserves the hop oils and malt character that boiling-off destroys. The taproom pours the line on site, including the mango dragonfruit sour and the west coast IPA that Visit Madison singles out.
Signature NA drinks- Untitled Art Non-Alcoholic Mango Dragonfruit Sour
- Untitled Art Non-Alcoholic West Coast IPA
- Untitled Art non-alcoholic range on draft and in cans
- ★★★★★?
The Great Dane's downtown brewpub occupies the 1850s Fess Hotel building on East Doty Street, a block off the Capitol Square, and is the original of a five-pub Wisconsin group that has been brewing in Madison since 1994. It is in this guide because the bar keeps Ritual Zero Proof behind it and builds real drinks with it rather than pouring soda — the dark cherry margarita and the nada-paloma both use Ritual's non-alcoholic tequila alternative, and a very cherry mockarita runs on its agave spirit. For a brewpub in a beer state to stock a non-alcoholic tequila is a more deliberate choice than it first appears.
Signature NA drinks- Dark cherry margarita (Ritual Zero Proof non-alcoholic tequila alternative)
- Nada-paloma (Ritual Zero Proof non-alcoholic tequila alternative)
- Very cherry mockarita (Ritual Zero Proof agave spirit alternative)
- ★★★★★?
Sober Social is Wisconsin's first all-non-alcoholic bottle shop, opened in May 2024 by Kristi Tanner in a roughly 700-square-foot storefront on Parmenter Street in Middleton, on Madison's western edge. It carries more than 100 non-alcoholic beers, wines, spirits and ready-to-drink cocktails — 35 brands at opening and growing since — including functional cans like the mushroom-based Little Saints range. In a state whose drinking culture is a national punchline, opening a booze-free liquor shop was a deliberately public act, and Tanner has framed the business as building an NA movement rather than simply selling bottles. Open Wednesday through Sunday afternoons.
Signature NA drinks- Little Saints functional canned cocktails
- Non-alcoholic wine, beer and spirits by the bottle
- ★★★★★?
Mint Mark is a near-east-side restaurant and bar that moved from its small Winnebago Street room to a larger space on East Washington Avenue, and it runs one of the zero-proof menus Madison's food press names first. The drinks carry the same off-kilter humour as the rest of the operation — "What Is This, A Titleist?" and "Narrow Straits" are both standing alcohol-free builds. The venue runs three distinct services under one roof: coffee on weekday mornings from 7am, dinner from 5pm, and a bar that stays open to 2am Monday through Saturday, which makes it usable at almost any hour a non-drinker might want a room to be in.
Signature NA drinks- What Is This, A Titleist?
- Narrow Straits
- ★★★★★?
Lucille is a wood-fired pizza restaurant and bar on King Street just off the Capitol Square, and one of the downtown rooms Madison's guides name repeatedly for non-alcoholic drinking. Its zero-proof builds are seasonal and properly constructed rather than sweetened — the Honeycrisp and Tart Cherry Mule leans on apple and sour cherry against ginger, and the Pineapple Mint No-Jito is the house mojito without the rum. The kitchen runs late for Madison, to 11pm most nights and 1am on Friday and Saturday, which matters in a downtown where a lot of the better zero-proof lists sit in restaurants that stop serving at nine.
Signature NA drinks- Honeycrisp and Tart Cherry Mule
- Pineapple Mint No-Jito
- ★★★★★?
Leopold's is a bookshop, café and bar on Regent Street in Greenbush, a format that in practice makes it one of the easiest rooms in Madison to spend an evening in without drinking — there are books, the coffee programme is real, and nobody is waiting for you to order another round. It opens at 10am six days a week and stays open until midnight every night, which is an almost unheard-of span. The non-alcoholic drinks are named and built: the Leopold's Scarlet Mule runs hibiscus and sage against ginger beer and orange bitters, and a pomegranate sage spritz sits alongside it. Both turn up in Madison's zero-proof coverage.
Signature NA drinks- Leopold's Scarlet Mule (hibiscus, sage, ginger beer, orange bitters)
- Pomegranate sage spritz
- ★★★★★?
Muskellounge & Sporting Club is a cocktail bar on Monona Drive in the Lake Edge neighbourhood, themed around Wisconsin's fishing and sporting-club tradition, and its non-alcoholic list leans on ready-to-drink bitters rather than sugar. It pours St. Agrestis's Phony Negroni — the Brooklyn producer's non-alcoholic negroni in a bottle, which is genuinely bitter and carbonated — alongside the Amaro Falso, its zero-proof amaro. Serving two bittersweet Italian styles rather than two sweet ones is an unusual and welcome choice. The bar keeps late hours for the east side, to midnight midweek and 1am on Friday and Saturday.
Signature NA drinks- St. Agrestis Phony Negroni (non-alcoholic negroni, bitter and carbonated)
- St. Agrestis Amaro Falso (non-alcoholic amaro)
- ★★★★★?
Karben4 is a Madison brewery on Kinsman Boulevard on the far east side, and its taproom is on this list because the non-alcoholic side of the bar is stocked with intent rather than improvised. It is home to Wisco Pop soda — the Viroqua-made craft soda built from whole, organic ingredients — and to Sparkle unsweetened sparkling waters, both of which Visit Madison names in its guide to drinking alcohol-free in the city. In a taproom, having a genuinely good soda on tap rather than a gun-poured cola is most of what a non-drinker needs. Hours run afternoons and early evenings, closing at 8pm or 9pm.
Signature NA drinks- Wisco Pop craft soda
- Sparkle unsweetened sparkling water
- ★★★★★?
Public Parking opened on East Johnson Street in October 2024 and became nationally noticed almost immediately: Bon Appétit put it on its 2025 list of the Best New Bars in the US, and it was a James Beard Best New Bar semifinalist in 2026. The house style is long, absurd drink names, elaborate garnishes, irreverent glassware and cocktails served in nitro-chilled glass. The non-alcoholic drinks get the same treatment rather than a separate lesser one — the standing zero-proof build, "I'm Just a Baby . . . I Can Pay You In Blocks", runs smoked tea against lemon, ginger and bubbles. Open daily from 4pm to 2am.
Signature NA drinks- I'm Just a Baby . . . I Can Pay You In Blocks (smoked tea, lemon, ginger, bubbles)
- ★★★★★?
Merchant has been the reference craft cocktail bar on Madison's Capitol Square for years, and is one of the handful of downtown rooms local coverage consistently names when the question is where to drink well without alcohol. Its zero-proof menu is built rather than substituted — the No Regrets works a non-alcoholic "gin-ish" spirit against rosemary and lime, which is a dry, herbaceous drink rather than a sweet one. The bar sits on South Pinckney Street a few doors from Settle Down Tavern and around the corner from Lucille and Eno Vino, which makes it the natural anchor of an alcohol-free evening on the Square. Closed Mondays; weekend brunch from 9am.
Signature NA drinks- No Regrets (non-alcoholic "gin-ish" spirit, rosemary, lime)
- ★★★★★?
Hodge Podge is a café and bar on Keenan Court in Verona, the fast-growing town south-west of Madison, and it is the entry in this guide for anyone on that side of the metro who does not want to drive into the city for a properly made alcohol-free drink. Its non-alcoholic builds are seasonal and named — the Snowy Reminiscence sets cranberries against elderflower tonic and citrus, which is a dry, aromatic winter drink rather than a sweet one. Madison Eats Food Tours names it among the metro's must-try non-alcoholic beverages, and it is the only venue in this guide in Dane County's south-western suburbs.
Signature NA drinks- Snowy Reminiscence (cranberries, elderflower tonic, citrus)
- ★★★★★?
Café Hollander sits in the Hilldale shopping district on Madison's west side and works the Belgian café format — a long beer list, mussels and frites, a big terrace. Its relevance here is narrow but real: the kitchen pours non-alcoholic sparkling wine and will build it into a mimosa with orange juice, which sounds slight until you have tried to order brunch without alcohol in a room where everyone else is having one. Madison Eats Food Tours names it in the metro's must-try non-alcoholic round-up on that basis. It is the west side's most convenient sit-down option and one of the few with genuine weekend brunch service.
Signature NA drinks- Non-alcoholic sparkling wine mimosa (NA champagne, orange juice)
More NA-friendly venues in Madison
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 Madison
17 venues in Madison serve named non-alcoholic cocktails on their menu. Top picks include Eno Vino Downtown, Nitro Beverage Lounge, Gates & Brovi.
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