Best Mocktails in New York, NY
New York has the country's deepest NA scene, anchored by dedicated sober bars like Hekate in the East Village and Soft Bar in Greenpoint, plus Boisson NA bottle shops in Cobble Hill and Williamsburg. Serious zero-proof programs at Dante, Existing Conditions, Katana Kitten, and Double Chicken Please mean a real NA menu is almost always a short walk away.
20 verified venues · 15 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.
- ★★★★★?
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
- Pine
- Grand Fir
- Parsnip
- Mandarin
- ★★★★★?
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- Saltair
- Passion Fruit Lowball
- Piscola
- Firefly Mule
- Candarin Orange
- ★★★★★?
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
- Tonka Noir
- Bitter Beginning
- Shine On
- ★★★★★?
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
- ★★★★★?
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
- ★★★★★?
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- Hojicha Carajillo (no-ABV) — non-alcoholic agave spirit, Kyoto hojicha, milk, piloncillo, lemon, chili
- Shiso Gin & Tonic (available non-alcoholic with Seedlip)
- Yokocho Paloma (available non-alcoholic with Seedlip)
- Good Time non-alcoholic beer (IPA or Pilsner)
- ★★★★★?
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)
- ★★★★★?
Hekate is a fully alcohol-free cafe, sober bar, and bottle shop in Manhattan's East Village on Avenue B, serving zero-proof cocktails, 0% ABV beers and wines, herbal elixirs, kava drinks, and coffee. Note: in May 2026 owner Abby Ehmann announced Hekate is winding down amid financial pressure — the lease runs through September 2026 with a final date still to be set, and its sober events are moving to a new East Village venue, B Scene at 50 Avenue B — so call ahead before visiting.
Signature NA drinks- Holy Fizz (NA: Seedlip Spice 94, Cappelletti, Fever-Tree tonic)
- AF Pina Colada (NA: Ritual Zero Proof spiced rum, pineapple juice, coconut milk)
- The Healer (NA: Apothekary Blue Me Away, lemonade, seltzer, lavender simple syrup)
- ★★★★★?
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
- ★★★★★?
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
- ★★★★★?
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
- ★★★★★?
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- Zero-Proof Mole Negroni
- La Shammami
- Michela-Na
- ★★★★★?
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
- ★★★★★?
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- Proxy Fizz
- Kalimotxo (non-alcoholic)
- ★★★★★?
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
15 venues in New York serve named non-alcoholic cocktails on their menu. Top picks include Golden Ratio, Bar Contra, Soft Bar.
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