Best Mocktails in New York, NY
New York has the country's deepest NA scene, anchored by dedicated sober bars like Soft Bar in Greenpoint. Serious zero-proof programs at Dante, Oddball, Katana Kitten, and Double Chicken Please mean a real NA menu is almost always a short walk away.
30 verified venues · 24 with named NA cocktails on menu
Named NA cocktails on the menu
These New York venues list specific non-alcoholic cocktails on their published menus.
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
An all-day, fully alcohol-free cafe and cocktail bar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, from "Summer House" star Carl Radke. Premium coffee and espresso by day; a full menu of zero-proof "soft cocktails" built on non-alcoholic spirits and functional ingredients by night.
Signature NA drinks- Golden Hour (Everleaf Marine, pink peppercorn shrub, Fuji apple soda, Prima Pave brut)
- Tonka Noir (tonka-infused Lyre's coffee liqueur, cold brew, sesame)
- Bitter Beginning (Three Spirit Social, Pathfinder, Roots Divino Rosso, cherry sarsaparilla)
- Shine On (chamomile-infused Seedlip Spice, Pentire Seaward, passionfruit, coconut milk)
- Gem on Banker (Almave Blanco, Abstinence Cape Citrus, lychee, spicy agave)
- Mint Condition (Pentire Adrift, Monday rum, lacto-fermented rhubarb, hibiscus, mint)
- Foam Party (jasmine-infused Seedlip Grove, almond orgeat, coffee, jasmine foam, yuzu)
- Garden Party (Almave Blanco, tomato, basil, lemon verbena, aquafaba, shio koji)
- Mr. Feel Good (Everleaf Forest, palo santo-infused Seedlip Spice, ginger, spicy honey)
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Golden Ratio is a Clinton Hill cocktail bar from Redwood Hospitality where every drink on the menu has both a spirited and a non-alcoholic version, built around house-made distillates and hydrosols crafted from foraged and upcycled ingredients.
Signature NA drinks- Purple Shiso (bread, lime) $16
- Pine (pine nut, lactose, lemon) $8
- Fir (needles, grapefruit) $16
- Mandarin (juice, tonic) $16
- Bergamot (blueberry, coriander) $16
- Pineapple Guava (chrysanthemum, pineappleweed) $16
- Green Almond (cucumber, lime) $16
- Sapodilla (burnt honey, soba cha) $15
- Licorice Root (coconut, citrus) $16
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Caffe Dante is the Greenwich Village original at 79–81 MacDougal Street, named the World's Best Bar in 2019 and famous for its Negroni and Garibaldi programmes. Note that three separate Dante rooms share one website — this is the MacDougal Street original, not Dante West Village on Hudson Street or Dante Aperitivo on Bank Street. CORRECTION TO OUR EARLIER LISTING: we previously described a zero-proof menu called "Temperance" led by a signature "NOgroni". Neither appears anywhere on Dante's site or current menus, and we could not source either name; they have been removed. The real section is headed simply NON-ALCOHOLIC and runs five drinks: an Espresso Shakerato with orange juice and vanilla ($16), an NA Cosmojito with Dante cranberry, mint, lime and orange bitters ($14), a Dante Italian Spritz on Lyre's ($16), an NA Blood Orange Spritz with Seedlip Grove, raspberry and balsamic ($17), and a Forest Highball on Everleaf Forest with clementine and saffron ($15). It was shortlisted, not a winner, at NYC's Best Bars for NA 2025.
Signature NA drinks- Espresso Shakerato ($16)
- NA Cosmojito ($14)
- NA Blood Orange Spritz ($17)
- Dante Italian Spritz ($16)
- Forest Highball ($15)
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
The Penrose calls itself the Upper East Local, and it backs that up with something almost no neighbourhood gastropub bothers with: a properly built list of eleven named non-alcoholic cocktails, published alongside the alcoholic ones rather than buried. Express Yourself is its espresso martini, Garden Tonic its zero-proof G&T, Peach Fuzz a boozeless bellini, Good Vibrations a no-alcohol negroni sbagliato, and Sunday Kinda Love a virgin bloody mary; there is also Lyre's non-alcoholic prosecco by the glass, plus NA beer. It serves alcohol too — this is a full bar, not an alcohol-free room — but it opens at 11:30am and runs to 4am daily, which makes it the most usefully late NA list in upper Manhattan.
Signature NA drinks- Express Yourself (zero-proof espresso martini)
- Garden Tonic (zero-proof G&T)
- Peach Fuzz (boozeless bellini)
- Good Vibrations (no-alcohol negroni sbagliato)
- Sunday Kinda Love (virgin bloody mary)
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Sunken Harbor Club is an immersive tropical cocktail bar on the second floor above Gage & Tollner on Fulton Street, opened in October 2021 and led by Chief Cocktail Officer Garret Richard — one of the most respected tiki technicians working in the United States. It won its category at the inaugural NYC's Best Bars for NA Awards, recognised for tiki-style non-alcoholic drinks, which is a harder trick than it sounds: tiki depends on rum's weight and funk, so building the same lushness without it demands real work with syrups, acids and spice rather than a swap from a bottle. The bar serves alcohol as well. It trades 5pm to 11pm, and to midnight on Friday and Saturday.
Signature NA drinks- Jubilee ($18)
- Scrimshaw ($18)
- The Elixir ($16)
- Silk Road Swizzle ($16)
- Eye of the Storm ($16)
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Bar Moga is a 1920s-era Japanese cocktail bar on West Houston Street, built around the Taisho-period idea of yōshoku — Western dishes absorbed into Japanese cooking — with jazz, shochu and Japanese whisky at its centre. It won its category at the inaugural NYC's Best Bars for NA Awards for what the judges described as a narrative-driven, Japanese cocktail-inspired non-alcoholic menu: drinks built to tell the same story as the alcoholic list rather than to sit apart from it. It serves alcohol as well as the zero-proof list. Hours run 5pm to midnight, to 12:30am on Friday and Saturday, with a weekend lunch service from noon.
Signature NA drinks- Morning In Ethiopia ($14)
- Amber Sky ($14)
- Byakuya ($14)
- Twilight ($14)
- Daydreaming ($14)
- NA Program Strength: 3 of 5?
Beer Culture is a craft beer bar and bottle shop at 328 West 45th Street in Hell's Kitchen, with 14 taps and around 90 cans and bottles focused on the New York area. Craft Beer & Brewing described it as an unpretentious beer bar with homey vibes, low ceilings and soft lighting, where amid all the attractions competing for your attention in New York, settling in feels like taking refuge in a friend's basement. Its non-alcoholic beers get their own printed section headed "Non-Alcoholic", currently six deep and unusually well chosen — Guinness Draught 0.0 at a true 0%, Go Brewing's Freedom Hazy at 0.2% (which is also crafted without gluten), Go's Sunbeam Pilsner at 0.4%, and three at 0.5%: Go's The Story, Momentum Brewery's Hazy IPA from Bay Shore, New York, and Athletic Brewing's Upside Dawn. The bar also keeps gluten-free beers in the bottle shop. Prices are not published online. It is 21-and-over after 9pm.
Signature NA drinks- Guinness Draught 0.0 (0%)
- Go Brewing Freedom Hazy (0.2%, gluten-free)
- Go Brewing Sunbeam Pilsner (0.4%)
- Momentum Brewery Hazy IPA (0.5%)
- Athletic Brewing Upside Dawn (0.5%)
- NA Program Strength: 3 of 5?
Pearl's Social & Billy Club has been a Bushwick mainstay since June 2011, and it marks fifteen years in the community in 2026. Its own framing is the reason it is here: in New York City our bars are our living rooms, and whether you are on or off the wagon you will find something that hits just right. That is backed by a genuinely dedicated "Zero Proof" menu — a separate printed card, not a footnote — carrying six named cocktails: the Dark & Stormless (Three Spirit Nightcap, fresh ginger, ginger beer, lime), a Booze Free G&T (non-alcoholic gin, Roots Divino Blanco, house lemon, rosemary and thyme tonic) that donates $1 to local charities, the Kala Khama (Three Spirit Livener, passionfruit, lemon), the Sherita non-alcoholic passionfruit margarita, the Bucatini, and a St. Agrestis Phony Negroni. Rarest of all, Athletic IPA is poured ON DRAFT at $8 — almost no New York bar does this. Fourteen non-alcoholic spirits are stocked behind the bar. Open from 2pm, to 4am Thursday through Sunday.
Signature NA drinks- Dark & Stormless
- Booze Free G&T
- Kala Khama
- Sherita (NA passionfruit margarita)
- Athletic IPA on draft ($8)
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
No More Cafe is a fully alcohol-free cocktail bar and all-day cafe in Manhattan's East Village, serving chef-crafted zero-proof cocktails, specialty coffee and tea, kava, and functional beverages — open daily noon to midnight.
Signature NA drinks- Island Echo
- Agave Phantom
- Amber Dream
- Visions of Ruby
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
Kosmic Community Anti Bar & Coffee Shop is a fully alcohol-free "anti bar" and cafe that opened in May 2024 in the former Mug & Cup space at 115 Avenue C in the East Village. It was founded by owner and East Village resident James Lockwood along with partners Tyler Garrett and Apostolos Filippas, who built it as a judgment-free social space for people with any relationship to sobriety. The owners are, in their words, "not big on mocktails," instead pouring a full coffee bar plus house-made sodas, herbal teas, fruit presses, and kava. The drink list also carries craft NA beer from Mash Gang, Athletic Brewing, and Go Brewing. The space keeps late hours — open until 2am Fridays and Saturdays — and features a retro lounge with a vintage phone booth and a back garden, hosting community events and live programming.
Signature NA drinks- Nitro Coffee Cream Soda
- Homemade Ginger Ale
- Cherry Jalapeño Limeade
- Sparkling Ashwagandha
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
A split-level Japanese-American cocktail bar in Greenwich Village from Masahiro "Masa" Urushido, a perennial fixture on The World's 50 Best Bars list. Its menu of highballs, boilermakers and signature cocktails runs alongside a named no-ABV drink, non-alcoholic beer, and classic highballs that can be made alcohol-free with Seedlip.
Signature NA drinks- Chelsioso (NA: n/a agave spirit, amazake, orgeat, ginger, lime, toasted coconut)
- Matcha Grasshopper (NA: matcha liqueur, cacao, pandan, coconut cream, azuki)
- Shiso Gin & Tonic (available non-alcoholic with Seedlip)
- Yokocho Paloma (available non-alcoholic with Seedlip)
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
An acclaimed Lower East Side cocktail bar split into two spaces: the walk-in Free Range front room serving kegged "taptails" and small plates, and The Coop, a reservation-driven back room famous for conceptual, food-inspired culinary cocktails. The Coop menu offers mocktail versions of several signature drinks, making it a solid stop for non-drinkers.
Signature NA drinks- Key Lime Pie (mocktail version available)
- Japanese Cold Noodle (mocktail version available)
- Grapefruit with a Grudge (mocktail version available)
- Gilded Orchard (mocktail version available)
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Superbueno is an award-winning Mexican-American cocktail bar in the East Village with a celebrated zero-proof menu that includes an alcohol-free version of its signature Mole Negroni.
Signature NA drinks- Mole Negroni Sin Alcohol (aplos, Pathfinder, Curious Elixir, mole spices)
- La Shammami (hibiscus habanero tonic, lemongrass & watermelon agua fresca)
- Chamoy Gimlet (aplos, chamoy, lime cordial, lime, tajin)
- Michela-Na (celery, apple, tomatillo, costeño, salt, Good Time N/A beer)
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Bar Contra is a technically ambitious cocktail bar on Orchard Street in the Lower East Side, from chefs Jeremiah Stone and Fabian von Hauske-Valtierra (of the former Michelin-starred Contra and Wildair) with mixologist Dave Arnold. It was named a winner of the inaugural NYC's Best Bars for NA Awards 2025 for its deeply experimental non-alcoholic menu, and its drink list carries a few low-ABV and no-ABV options alongside its $21 craft cocktails and creative small plates.
Signature NA drinks- Schisandra (NA: schisandra, juniper, buddha's hand, myrrh)
- PearFecto! (NA: pear, woodruff, saline)
- Better Living (NA: grapefruit, cream syrup, champagne acid)
- Green Bean BS (NA: rhubarb, marigold, pomegranate)
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Sugar Monk is a speakeasy-inspired lounge on Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem, founded by mixologist, distiller and artist Ektoras Binikos, from Ikaria in Greece, with Montreal-born photographer and designer Simon Jutras. Its drinks are built on foraged and wild botanicals supplied for years by forager Tama Matsuoka Wong, worked into bitters, tinctures, infusions and syrups, and the bar distils its own non-alcoholic amaro and vermouth under its Atheras Spirits label. READ THE MENU CAREFULLY BEFORE ORDERING: its section headed "Follow the Gleams" is subtitled "Low ABV/Non-Alcoholic", and two of its five drinks contain real alcohol at printed strengths — the Ganesha at 19% ABV and the Strawberry Spritz at 25% ABV, both $18. The genuinely alcohol-free drinks in that section are the Butterfly Field ($16, and note it contains pasteurised egg white), the Ba-Lue Bolivar ($16) and a zero-proof Negroni Sbagliato ($16). A Faux Negroni, explicitly labelled non-alcoholic, is $12 during the daily 5–7pm happy hour. Shortlisted at NYC's Best Bars for NA 2025.
Signature NA drinks- Negroni Sbagliato, 0% ($16)
- Ba-Lue Bolivar, 0% ($16)
- Butterfly Field, 0% ($16, contains egg white)
- Faux Negroni, 0% ($12, happy hour)
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
Mockingbird is Park Slope's first fully alcohol-free cocktail bar, serving thoughtfully crafted zero-proof cocktails alongside coffee, matcha, weekend brunch, and elevated bar bites at 213 7th Ave in Brooklyn.
Signature NA drinks- The Herbalist
- The Nightshift
- Perennial Tonic
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
High & Dry is a fully alcohol-free coffee-and-cocktail bar that opened in 2024 in Bushwick, on the Bed-Stuy border at 899 Broadway, tucked beneath the elevated J/M/Z tracks near Myrtle Avenue. It was opened by a team that includes Tobly McSmith (a young-adult novelist for HarperCollins), Garret Peterson (a former Coney Island paramedic), Breandan Carroll, and Daniel Stettner (a graphic designer who handles branding), several of whom have worked across other NYC sober spaces. The name is a play on its concept: the caffeine drinks get you "high," and the no-alcohol policy keeps it "dry." Open daily from noon to midnight, it pitches itself as a "third space" for creatives, remote workers, and night owls who want bar-style socializing without booze. The menu runs to spirit-free cocktails, coffee and espresso, matcha, tea, and rotating kombucha on tap, with most drinks priced under $8.
Signature NA drinks- NY Egg Cream
- Butterfly Pea Lemonade
- Laura Palmer
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
A creative Alphabet City cocktail bar, opened November 2025, where non-alcoholic drinks are built in-house with the same rigor as the spirited menu rather than treated as an afterthought. The zero-proof builds favor unusual, savory and offbeat ingredients over the standard fruity mocktail.
Signature NA drinks- Far Side
- Infinite Loop
- Cloud Chamber
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Public Records is a plant-based restaurant, cocktail bar, and hi-fi music venue in Gowanus, Brooklyn, opened in April 2019 by musician Francis Harris, designer Shane Davis, and hospitality director Erik VanderWal. It occupies a 1910s building that served as the ASPCA's Brooklyn headquarters for decades, and the all-vegan kitchen nods to that history. The campus spans several spaces, including The Atrium restaurant-lounge, where the bar program runs alongside an extensive cocktail list. The Atrium menu carries a dedicated "Zero-Proof" section of fully built spirit-free cocktails rather than an afterthought mocktail or two. Current named options include the Palomar (NA mezcal, elderflower cordial, spiced grapefruit shrub, lemon balm, soda), Not For Rita (NA agave spirit, spiced grapefruit shrub, lime, agave, damiana), and Press For Time (coffee, cinnamon-lapsang-sorghum syrup, vanilla-coconut cream whip, reishi, orange), plus housemade sodas.
Signature NA drinks- Palomar
- Not For Rita
- Press For Time
- NA Program Strength: 3 of 5?
Saint Eve's is a small, intimate cocktail bar on 12th Street in Park Slope, shortlisted at the inaugural NYC's Best Bars for NA Awards. It is deliberately tiny — the bar states it cannot take parties of six or more — which makes it the opposite of a destination and rather good as a place to sit and talk. It serves alcohol and does not publish a named non-alcoholic list, so the zero-proof drinking here rests on the bartender rather than on a printed menu; ask, and expect something built rather than poured. Open 5pm until close, seven nights. Mockingbird, South Brooklyn's dedicated alcohol-free bar, is a short walk away for anyone who wants a room with no alcohol in it.
Signature NA drinks- days of future past ($13)
- don't call me shirley shaken ($13)
- alter ego ($13)
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Clemente Bar opened in October 2024 on the second floor of chef Daniel Humm's three-Michelin-star Eleven Madison Park, in NoMad/Flatiron at the corner of Madison Avenue and East 24th Street. It is a collaboration with — and named for — Italian artist Francesco Clemente, whose original murals swirl through the room and around the back bar. The bar comprises a 38-seat Lounge serving à la carte food and drinks, plus a nine-seat Studio offering a five-course tasting with cocktail pairings. Like EMP, the food is fully plant-based. The beverage program, overseen by EMP's drinks team, includes a dedicated menu of "soft cocktails" and a fully non-alcoholic pairing option available with the Studio tasting menu. Named zero-proof drinks include the Proxy Fizz (Seedlip Garden, cucumber, green apple, amazake) and a non-alcoholic Kalimotxo. Clemente Bar entered North America's 50 Best Bars at No. 11 in 2025, winning the Best New Opening Award, and ranked No. 15 in 2026.
Signature NA drinks- Nashi Bloom (non-alcoholic)
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
The Portrait Bar sits inside The Fifth Avenue Hotel in NoMad, a maximalist room hung with portraiture that reads as considered rather than merely lavish. It won its category at the inaugural NYC's Best Bars for NA Awards, where the judges singled out an intimate maximalist setting paired with a confident non-alcoholic list — confident being the operative word, since hotel bars are where zero-proof menus most often collapse into a token pair of juices. It serves alcohol too. Hours are unusually generous for a room of this quality: 5pm to 1am through the week and to 2am on Friday and Saturday, seven days.
Signature NA drinks- Non-alcoholic Ramos Gin Fizz
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
The Lobby Bar occupies the ground floor of the Hotel Chelsea, the most storied building in American bohemia, restored and reopened as a bar that is genuinely worth visiting rather than a lobby with a counter. It was shortlisted at the inaugural NYC's Best Bars for NA Awards. Its practical advantage over almost everything else in this guide is time: 11am to 2am, every single day, so it works for a mid-afternoon meeting and a late night from the same room. Alcohol is served. Spirited Away, New York's deepest non-alcoholic bottle shop, is a five-minute walk away on Eighth Avenue, which makes this a natural pairing for an afternoon.
Signature NA drinks- Strawberry Sbagliato (non-alcoholic)
- NA Program Strength: 3 of 5?
A lively West Village Thai restaurant inspired by Bangkok's late-night dining scene, with an award-winning cocktail program that includes a Seedlip-based non-alcoholic option.
Signature NA drinks- Beets 'N' Cream
More NA-friendly venues in New York
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 New York
24 venues in New York serve named non-alcoholic cocktails on their menu. Top picks include Soft Bar, Golden Ratio, Dante.
A mocktail is a non-alcoholic drink built with the same craft and complexity as a cocktail — fresh juices, infused syrups, bitters, herbal tinctures, NA spirits — rather than just a soda or juice. The best NA bars treat mocktails as a real program, not a placeholder.
New York has the country's deepest NA scene, anchored by dedicated sober bars like Soft Bar in Greenpoint. Serious zero-proof programs at Dante, Oddball, Katana Kitten, and Double Chicken Please mean a real NA menu is almost always a short walk away.
Venues that publish named non-alcoholic cocktails come first, ordered by menu depth — the more named NA drinks a venue lists, the higher it ranks. Our NA Program Strength rating (1-5) breaks ties and reflects the program overall: 5 means a dedicated NA establishment, 4 an extensive NA menu, 3 meaningful NA options.
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