Best Mocktails in Raleigh-Durham, NC
18 Raleigh-Durham venues put named non-alcoholic cocktails on the menu. For 5 of them we print the zero-proof menu itself — 16 mocktails by name, compiled from each venue's published menu. The median mocktail on those menus costs $9, across 13 priced drinks.
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Named NA cocktails on the menu
These Raleigh-Durham venues list specific non-alcoholic cocktails on their published menus.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?On the zero-proof menu
- “Aperol” Spritz$12
- It’s Britney, Spritz$12
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?Signature NA drinks
- Sorta Sangria ($9) — verjus, mango purée, pineapple, orange juice, lime, ginger
- Let the Beet Build ($8) — tonic water, beet juice syrup, lime, Remedy lemon-thyme bitters
- Wake 'n Shake ($10) — cold brew, pineapple, hickory syrup, chocolate bitters
- Seasonal Shrub ($9) — apple cider vinegar, carrot, thyme, ginger
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice ($9) — lemongrass, matcha, ginger beer, lemon, ube soy foam
- Spring Fling ($9) — house falernum syrup, coconut water, lemon, pineapple (contains almonds)
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?On the zero-proof menu
- Pear Shrub — pear, honey, soda, local sage$6
- Pom-Hib Spritzer — pomegranate, hibiscus, soda$5
- Shirley Temple — the durham grenadine, mexican sprite, luxardo cherries$6
- Vitamin Tea — carrot tea, orange, honey$7
- Ruby Spritz — lyre’s italian orange, non-alcoholic spirit, lime, soda, falernum *contains nuts$9
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?Signature NA drinks
- Traditional Kava ($6 / $10) — ground Noble Vanuatu kava root blended with pure water, served in a shell
- DK Kava ($6 / $10) — the flagship on tap: juices and flavours mixed with kava extract, rotating seasonal flavour or a low-sugar Mai Tai
- Sparkling Kava ($6 / $10) — carbonated juices and flavours with kava extract, rotating seasonal flavour
- Grab The Bull ($15) — traditional kava, coconut milk, sweetener and a shot of kava extract
- Haleakala Sunrise ($10) — guava, pineapple, lime and coconut with a strawberry drizzle, mixed with the base of your choice
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?Signature NA drinks
- Pomegranate Spritz ($5) — pomegranate molasses, honey, freshly squeezed limes, ginger ale, club soda, over ice
- Limon Nana ($5) — fresh lemon juice, mint-infused simple syrup, water, over ice
- Lebanese Iced Tea ($5) — passionfruit nectar, ginger-infused simple syrup, tea, over ice
- Leitz Zero Sauvignon Blanc — non-alcoholic white, $12 glass / $46 bottle
- Leitz Zero Sparkling Rosé — non-alcoholic sparkling rosé, $52 bottle
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?Signature NA drinks
- Faux Tai ($10) — Mock One NA rum, lime, orgeat, edible flower
- My Little Secret ($10) — Mock One NA tequila, strawberry, lemon, soda
- Après Tout ($10) — Mock One NA gin, blueberry shrub, lime, tonic
- Village of the Deer ($10) — Mock One NA whiskey, grapefruit, honey
- Any house cocktail, made with Mock One in place of the spirit (+$5)
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?Signature NA drinks
- Mama Said Knock You Out (pick-your-proof: zero, half or full) — beets, herbes de Provence, citrus; tequila or mezcal at half or full proof
- Hello, Nurse! (pick-your-proof) — orange blossom, blue matcha, citrus; gin at half or full proof
- Dreams of Oaxaca (pick-your-proof) — pineapple, jalapeño; mezcal at half or full proof
- The Rabbit of Caerbannog (pick-your-proof) — carrot, black pepper, honey; gin at half or full proof
- The Kilt Lifter (pick-your-proof) — hibiscus, ginger, árbol chilli; scotch at half or full proof
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?Signature NA drinks
- Starry Eyed Fig — local garden figs, soda, sugar, champagne acid, lemon
- Sunset Sipper — lime, Alley Twenty Six tonic and blood orange syrups, soda
- Earl Please — Earl Grey tea, passionfruit, ginger, lime
- Conch Shell — rooibos tea, blackberry, rosemary, lime, balsamic
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?On the zero-proof menu
- Sunday Spritz — töst sparkling rosé, lemon, sugar, elderberry, ginger$12.00
- Phony Negroni — st. agrestis phony negroni$9.00
- Honey Trap — grapefruit, honey, ginger, lemon$9.00
- NA Program Strength: 3 of 5?Signature NA drinks
- Micronized Kava — powdered kava prepared in a juice or milk of your choice
- Functional Mushroom drink — Sporeganix mushroom extract powders, up to three kinds, in juice or chocolate almond milk
- Rishi organic hot teas — Earl Grey, Peach Blossom White, Masala Chai, Jasmine Green and more
- Pure Intentions Peruvian coffee — organic, direct trade, roasted in Charlotte
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?On the zero-proof menu
- Sunset Sparkler — alcohol free apertivo and prosecco a spirit-free aperol spritz
- Pine State Of Mind — alcohol free gin, lime, honey, celery bitters, athletic na ipa hoppy, refreshing
- Lemonheloooo Spritz — alcohol free limoncello and prosecco a spirit-free limoncello spritz
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?On the zero-proof menu
- Sunday Spritz — töst sparkling rosé, lemon, sugar, elderberry, ginger$10.00
- Phony Negroni — st. agrestis phony negroni$8.00
- Honey Trap — grapefruit, honey, ginger, lemon$9.00
- NA Program Strength: 3 of 5?Signature NA drinks
- Meteor Smash ($9) — mango, orange juice (Roadrunner seasonal menu)
- Milky Way ($9) — dark chocolate milk, nutmeg, caramel (Roadrunner seasonal menu)
- Heineken 0.0 ($5)
- NA Program Strength: 3 of 5?Signature NA drinks
- Vampire ($9) — fresh blackberries, honey simple, hibiscus, lemon, soda
- Passionfruit Fizz ($9) — passion fruit tea, lemon juice, honey simple, egg white
- Untitled Art Non-Alcoholic Beer ($5) — juicy IPA or grapefruit shandy
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?Signature NA drinks
- Traditional Kava — ground aged kava root from the South Pacific, served with no additives
- Yerba Mate — thirteen varieties from four countries, the largest collection in North Carolina
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?Signature NA drinks
- Traditional Kava — ground aged kava root from the South Pacific, served with no additives
- Yerba Mate — thirteen varieties from four countries, the largest collection in North Carolina
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?Signature NA drinks
- I'll Still Have What Meg's Having — Rasāsvāda Rose Bergamot, rose cordial, lime, lavender, lemon balm, strawberry-rose soda water
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?Signature NA drinks
- Blank Check — 0.5% ABV non-alcoholic prohibition pilsner, 26 IBU; Cumberland locally malted corn, Epiphany Modern Pilsner and aromatic malts, NC two-row barley; Wakatu, Saphir and Magnum hops
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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 Raleigh-Durham
18 venues in Raleigh-Durham serve named non-alcoholic cocktails on their menu. Top picks include The Velvet Hippo, The Fiction Kitchen, The Coffee Bar at The Durham.
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.
Across the 13 priced mocktails on 4 Raleigh-Durham menus we list, the median is $9, from $5 to $12. Every figure is a price printed on the venue's own menu, not an estimate.
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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