Best Mocktails in Richmond, VA
Richmond's alcohol-free scene is in an odd moment: genuinely good, and thinner than it was a year ago. Two of its three dedicated venues have gone — Ceremony, the Fan district's non-alcoholic bottle shop, closed and moved to Norfolk, and KavaClub on West Main, which local press called the only alcohol-free bar in Virginia, shut in 2026 — so guides recommending them are out of date. What survives is worth the trip. Point 5 in Carytown is the city's last dedicated non-alcoholic bottle shop, stocking over 100 brands and running tastings and classes, and SoBar is a genuine alcohol-free speakeasy with live music, taking over Alchemy Coffee on West Broad Street on Friday and Saturday nights with a composed zero-proof list from the Not So Dirty Chai Martini to the blueberry-ginger Something Blue. The rest of the depth sits inside licensed rooms: Three Notch'd brews its own non-alcoholic Uncool line and pours it on tap in Scott's Addition, Pinky's prices its mocktails below its cocktails, Blue Atlas makes house shrubs, Virago Spirits pours zero-proof versions of its own distillery cocktails, and Lolita's leans on the aguas frescas that were alcohol-free long before the category had a name. Carytown is the most walkable stretch, with Point 5, Lolita's and The Daily Kitchen & Bar within a few minutes of each other.
11 verified venues · 9 with named NA cocktails on menu
Named NA cocktails on the menu
These Richmond venues list specific non-alcoholic cocktails on their published menus.
- ★★★★★?
SoBar is Richmond's alcohol-free speakeasy — a Friday and Saturday night concept that takes over Alchemy Coffee on West Broad Street after the espresso machines go quiet, with low lights, live music and a full craft cocktail list containing no alcohol at all. Operator Bobby Kruger built it as a real bar rather than a cafe staying open late: the drinks are named and composed, running from Something Blue, a blueberry-ginger mule, through the Not So Dirty Chai Martini, Cielito en Fuego, Lucid Sunset Spritz, Banana Bird and the High Priestess, plus a non-alcoholic dirty martini. With KavaClub now closed, it is the city's only regular alcohol-free night out.
Signature NA drinks- Something Blue - blueberry-ginger mule
- Not So Dirty Chai Martini
- Cielito en Fuego
- Lucid Sunset Spritz
- Banana Bird
- High Priestess
- NA dirty martini
- ★★★★★?
Pinky's is a Scott's Addition bar and restaurant that does something quietly unusual with its non-alcoholic drinks: it prices them below the cocktails. That sounds minor and is not — plenty of bars charge full cocktail money for a drink with the expensive ingredient removed, and the resentment that causes is one of the most common complaints among people who do not drink. The list is named rather than improvised, with the Cyprus Cooler and The Afternoon in Monaco — strawberry, basil, lime and soda water — singled out by local guides, and non-alcoholic Heineken behind the bar for anyone who just wants a beer in hand.
Signature NA drinks- The Afternoon in Monaco - strawberry, basil, lime, soda water
- Cyprus Cooler
- Non-alcoholic Heineken
- ★★★★★?
Lolita's is a Carytown Mexican restaurant with an unusually deep bench of alcohol-free drinks for a place whose reputation rests on margaritas. There are five mocktail flavours on the standing list, including mango, hibiscus and corazón, alongside buzz-free margaritas and a range of aguas frescas — the traditional Mexican fruit waters that were alcohol-free long before anyone marketed them as such. That combination matters in practice: the aguas frescas mean a non-drinker can order something that belongs on the table rather than something invented to fill a gap, and the zero-proof margaritas cover the social ritual everyone else is participating in.
Signature NA drinks- Five mocktail flavours including mango, hibiscus and corazón
- Buzz-free margaritas
- Aguas frescas
- ★★★★★?
The Daily Kitchen & Bar is a health-forward restaurant on West Cary Street in Carytown whose drinks list reflects the same philosophy as its kitchen: several soda-based mocktails built in house, kombucha on the menu, and non-alcoholic beer stocked as a matter of course. The reason it works for a non-drinker is structural rather than culinary — this is a venue where a large share of the room is already ordering something functional or alcohol-free by choice, so nobody's order stands out. It opens at 11am on weekdays and 10am at weekends, which makes it one of the few options in Richmond that covers breakfast through dinner.
Signature NA drinks- House soda-based mocktails
- Kombucha
- Non-alcoholic beer
- ★★★★★?
Three Notch'd's Scott's Addition taproom is the rare brewery that answers the non-alcoholic question with its own beer rather than a bought-in can. The Charlottesville-founded brewery produces Uncool, a full year-round non-alcoholic line, and pours it here on tap and in the fridge — including a Low Cal IPA that comes in around 40 calories. That distinction matters in a brewery district: ordering a house-brewed alcohol-free beer in a taproom is a completely different social experience from asking what they have without alcohol and being handed something from a competitor. The kitchen and the taproom keep normal brewery hours, to 11pm on Fridays and Saturdays.
Signature NA drinks- Uncool - the brewery's own year-round non-alcoholic line
- Uncool Low Cal IPA - non-alcoholic, around 40 calories
- ★★★★★?
Kismet Modern Indian on West Broad Street builds its non-alcoholic drinks with the same spice-forward logic as its cooking, and keeps two named mocktails on the printed list: Tiger's Tail and Familiar Faces. Indian food is a natural fit for alcohol-free drinking — the cuisine's own drinking tradition runs to lassi, nimbu pani and spiced coolers rather than wine, and chilli heat is generally better served by something cold and acidic than by alcohol. That makes ordering a zero-proof drink here feel like a considered pairing rather than a substitution, which is a rarer experience than it should be. It sits on the Scott's Addition edge of West Broad Street, so it slots easily into an evening built around the brewery district without requiring anyone at the table to drink.
Signature NA drinks- Tiger's Tail
- Familiar Faces
- ★★★★★?
Blue Atlas is a restaurant and market in Fulton, east of downtown Richmond, and its bar does two things that separate a real alcohol-free offering from a token one: it makes its own shrubs, and it stocks non-alcoholic wine. A shrub is a drinking vinegar — fruit, sugar and vinegar macerated over days — and it exists precisely to give a soft drink the acidity and length that alcohol normally provides, so any kitchen making one has committed real prep time to the non-drinker's side of the menu. Combined with the market operation and a Wednesday-to-Sunday schedule, it is a genuine destination rather than a convenient stop.
Signature NA drinks- House shrub and soda
- Non-alcoholic wine selection
- ★★★★★?
Tazza Kitchen's Scott's Addition location is a wood-fired neighbourhood restaurant whose bar keeps thoughtfully constructed non-alcoholic drinks on the standing list — the Centerfold is the one local guides name. What makes it useful in this particular district is the split-service schedule and the food-first orientation: Tazza trades lunch and dinner with a break between, so it functions as a proper meal out rather than a drinking session, which is exactly what a group needs when it is anchoring an evening in Richmond's brewery quarter around someone who is not drinking. Scott's Addition is otherwise organised almost entirely around taprooms, and a wood-fired kitchen with a real dinner service is a scarce thing in it.
Signature NA drinks- Centerfold
- ★★★★★?
Virago Spirits is a Richmond distillery whose tasting room pours non-alcoholic versions of several of its own cocktails, built around flavours including smoked raspberry, vanilla, orange and pecan. A distillery is the last place most non-drinkers would expect to be catered for, which is exactly why it is worth knowing: the same people who develop the spirits build the zero-proof serves, using the syrups, infusions and technique the bar already has. It trades Wednesday to Sunday afternoons and evenings, closing at 9:30pm, and it makes the distillery tour circuit that runs through Scott's Addition workable for a mixed group — turning what is usually the worst afternoon of the year for a non-drinker into an ordinary one. Ask what they are pouring zero-proof when you arrive, as the serves follow the house list rather than a fixed menu.
Signature NA drinks- Non-alcoholic versions of the house cocktails — flavours including smoked raspberry, vanilla, orange and pecan
More NA-friendly venues in Richmond
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 Richmond
9 venues in Richmond serve named non-alcoholic cocktails on their menu. Top picks include SoBar at Alchemy Coffee, Pinky's, Lolita's.
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