Athletic Brewing in Minneapolis, MN

Dario is an Italian restaurant with global influences that opened in Minneapolis's North Loop in early 2024, led by chef Joe Rolle and beverage director Stephen Rowe. Rowe spent nearly a decade as a founding team member of the acclaimed Marvel Bar, and at Dario he runs a dedicated spirit-free program built to stand alongside the full-proof cocktails rather than as an afterthought — the restaurant calls it "a groundbreaking spirit-free offering that mirrors the depth and creativity of the full-proof cocktails." The zero-proof list spans bitters-forward and botanical builds such as the New Age Outlaw (Dhos Blanco, Spritz del Conte, lime), No. 75 (ISH London Botanical, Oddbird Blanc de Blanc, lemon), Botanical & Tonic, and the Naw-groni. The kitchen also makes house sodas, pours an Athletic Brewing NA golden ale, and keeps a de-alcoholized wine list. Known for handmade pastas.

Dark Horse Bar & Eatery is a Lowertown, St. Paul neighborhood bar and restaurant that spent a decade serving the district before closing in February 2025 and reopening in July 2025 under new ownership. The relaunch is run by chef Shane Oporto in the kitchen and Sarah McDonough on the floor, backed by Eclective, the hospitality group behind Saint Paul Brewing and Can Can Wonderland. The reopened menu pairs elevated bar food — a signature burger, pizzas — with a cocktail list that gives equal attention to its non-alcoholic side. A dedicated "Zero Proof" menu section ($9 each) features house-made drinks: a Ginger Beer built on house ginger syrup, cayenne, and soda; a Squirt with house grapefruit cordial and soda; and a lightly fermented Tepache of pineapple, piloncillo, and cinnamon. Athletic Brewing non-alcoholic beers (Free Wave, Upside Dawn) are also stocked.

Spoon and Stable is the North Loop flagship of James Beard Award-winning chef/owner Gavin Kaysen, opened in 2014 inside a 1906 former horse stable. Backing came from mentors Daniel Boulud and Thomas Keller, and the restaurant was a 2015 James Beard nominee for Best New Restaurant and Food & Wine's 2015 Restaurant of the Year. Its zero-proof offering is a genuine, on-menu program: the bar menu carries a dedicated "Spirit Free Libations" section of bar-crafted mocktails, attributed to bar manager Jessi Pollak. Current named pours include the Toasted Oak (pu'er tea, toasted oak, demerara, aromatic bitters), Solstice (blood orange aperitif, blueberry rooibos, lemon, cinnamon), and Café Negroni (Pathfinder hemp amaro, cold brew, blood orange, Floreale). The list rounds out with Oddbird sparkling rosé and non-alcoholic beers from Athletic, Bauhaus, and Heineken 0.0.

9 Mile Brewing Company is Bloomington's first brewery, located in a James Avenue South business park near the Mall of America in the southern Twin Cities metro. Beyond standard craft beer, the brewery has earned regional attention for actually brewing its own non-alcoholic sours in house, using its "house sour grist" — a rotating program that has included a Non-Alcoholic Peach Passionfruit Sour (peach and passion fruit, finished with Sabro hops) and a summer orange-mango release. Explore Minnesota featured the brewery for these NA sours, noting they retain a thick body and mouthfeel often lost in non-alcoholic beer. The current taproom NA lineup also carries Athletic Brewing non-alcoholic beers, J's Kombucha, and Northern Craft Soda, while a scratch kitchen, Creekside Kitchen, opened in March 2025. Because the in-house NA sours rotate seasonally, it's worth confirming the day's zero-proof options on arrival.