Athletic Brewing in Baltimore, MD

Dutch Courage is Baltimore's first gin-centric cocktail bar, opened in December 2019 by Brendan Dorr and Eric Fooy in a 1,500-square-foot rowhouse at 2229 N Charles Street in Old Goucher. Dorr set out to make somewhere deliberately bright: so many cocktail bars are dark and moody, he said before opening, but they wanted a place where you can have a cocktail at night and actually read the menu. The Baltimore Banner has written that the bar is redefining the non-alcoholic scene with its creative mocktails. Its zero-proof drinks include the N.A. Groni (a botanical gin syrup with orange oil, orange bitters and jasmine Tortuga kombucha), the First Lady (Seedlip Grove 42, grapefruit, rose water, sparkling non-alcoholic chardonnay and rosebuds) and the Emerald Mage (lemon, rosemary, spiced grenadine). The list rotates and the bar publishes its menus as PDFs that cannot be read online, so confirm the current roster on arrival. Snacks run to pickled vegetables with a herbed buttermilk dip. Open from 4pm daily, with happy hour weekdays 4–6pm. The same owners run the rum bar Pink Flamingo in Remington.

Gunther & Co. is a modern American restaurant in the historic Gunther Boiler Building at 3650 Toone Street in Brewers Hill, open since May 2016 under executive chef and co-owner Jerry Trice — a Culinary Institute of America graduate who pioneered ChefDriven, the first restaurant-style food truck in Washington DC, named the city's best by both Washingtonian and The Washington Post in 2012. Almost everything is made in house, including the ice cream, burger buns and brunch biscuits. Its printed "Zero Proof Cocktails" section runs three house-built drinks: the Amalfi Spritz ($12, house-made zero-proof Amalfi aperitif, Lyre's NA sparkling wine, soda, orange), Spa Water ($9, house cantaloupe-pandan shrub, coconut water, lemon, soda) and Rose of Althea ($6, house hibiscus shrub, lime, soda). Five non-alcoholic beers follow — Go Brewing, Ceria, Athletic, New Trail and Estrella Galicia 0.0 — plus Fever-Tree and Q Drinks sodas at $5. Parking is free and the list rotates seasonally.

Pink Flamingo is a rum-focused tropical tavern that Dutch Courage co-owners Brendan Dorr and Eric Fooy opened in April 2025 in the Remington building that ran as Dizzy Issie's from 1937, became The Dizz in 1997, and sat shuttered after closing in fall 2019. Its Spirit Free list is a standing section of the menu rather than an on-request favor: the Road Less Traveled builds Pathfinder N/A amaro into a mule with blood orange-Calabrian chile honey, lime and ginger beer, while The Shallows pours Lyre's N.A. cane spirit with fassionola and All The Bitter aromatic bitters. If The Shoe Fitz mixes Mionetto N/A prosecco with aperitif and soda water, and a Yuzu-Thai Basil-Limeade rounds out the zero-proof cocktails alongside NA cans from Athletic, Best Day and Lagunitas. Bar manager Nick Pikounis told PUNCH the Road Less Traveled is the bar's single most-ordered N/A drink. The bar was named a 2026 James Beard Award semifinalist for Best New Bar.

Sally O's is a corner bar at 3531 Gough Street in Highlandtown from chef Jesse Sandlin, a Top Chef alum who took over the longtime home of The Laughing Pint after it closed in autumn 2019 and named the place for her grandmother, Mildred O'Dethal, known as Sally O. The kitchen cooks from scratch, including its own ice cream, and Baltimore Magazine singled out a Crabonara that mixes blue crab into the pasta in place of pancetta. Its printed "Spirit Free" section runs three built drinks at $10 each: Szechuan Blush (Ritual zero-proof gin, rosemary-szechuan-cranberry syrup, lime), a Pathfinder Old Fashioned (Pathfinder NA amaro, marshmallow syrup, orange twist) and a Zero Proof Spritz (Mionetto NA bubbles, Mionetto NA aperitivo, soda). Athletic's Free Wave and Lite are $5, a non-alcoholic Guinness is $8 and a Mionetto alcohol-removed sparkling is $10. Dinner runs Monday to Saturday from 5pm with a late-night menu Thursday through Saturday. Sandlin also owns The Dive in Canton.