Athletic Brewing in Nashville, TN

Killjoy is Nashville's first booze-free beverage shop, founded by Stephanie Styll, who stopped drinking at the end of 2020. It launched in 2023 as a hidden 200-square-foot space in Wedgewood-Houston before relocating in November 2024 to a storefront in The Shoppes on Fatherland in East Nashville. The shelves are entirely alcohol-free: NA beer, still and sparkling wine, zero-proof spirits, ready-to-drink cocktails, plus kava, adaptogens, and THC/CBD drinks, with a knowledgeable team to guide customers through the selection. Confirmed brands on its own store include Athletic Brewing, Best Day Brewing, Go Brewing, Untitled Art, Dromme, and Prima Pavé. Killjoy was named among the country's top nonalcoholic bottle shops by Wine Enthusiast, and Styll won a NEXT Award from the Nashville Entrepreneur Center in 2024. It runs frequent Dry January tastings and sober-social events.

Le Loup is a vintage-inspired craft cocktail bar from restaurateur Ford Fry's Rocket Farm Restaurants group, opened in early 2022 in Nashville's Germantown neighbourhood above its sister restaurant The Optimist. The cocktail programme was built by Kenneth Vanhooser, a Nashville native who spent a decade working in New York. The room is deep green marble and rich colour under a custom underwater mural by Rebecca Green — The Infatuation summed up the effect as the distinct feeling you're submerged in a submarine — and the food is seafood-leaning: bluefin tuna belly, West Coast uni, smoked fish dip with trout roe. The bar keeps a short section headed "Zero Proof", currently two made-to-order drinks at $8 each: Lift to the Scaffold (lemon, mint, cucumber, alfalfa, tonic) and Four (grapefruit, calpico, pineapple, ginger, chili). Athletic's Atletica zero-alcohol beer is $6.

Café Roze is an all-day café and restaurant in East Nashville's Lockeland Springs area, opened in 2017 by chef-owner Julia Jaksic (a longtime New York chef, formerly of Employees Only and Jack's Wife Freda) with business partner Eric Lincoln. The vegetable-forward kitchen runs from morning coffee and breakfast through afternoon wine and dinner, and was named a Recommended Restaurant in the inaugural 2025 Michelin Guide American South. Its beverage menu carries a genuine, clearly labeled zero-proof selection rather than an afterthought: dedicated "N/A Wines & Kombucha" and "N/A Beer" sections list a Lyre's Classico non-alcoholic sparkling, the St. Agrestis Phony Negroni, Walker Brothers citrus kombucha, and Athletic Brewing's Cerveza N/A. Alongside the bottles, the bar makes a short list of house fizzy drinks at $6 — a Turmeric Cooler, a Beet Root Soda with carrot and lemon, a carrot-and-habanero Firewater, and a cold-brew Coffee Fizz with orange shrub. The Florentina Spritz built on Ritual NA tequila that appeared on earlier menus is no longer listed.

Sadie's is a modern Mediterranean-American restaurant in Nashville's Edgehill Village, opened in September 2021 in the former Taco Mamacita space on the corner of Villa Place. It belongs to Red Pebbles Hospitality, the local group led by Howard Greenstone and Ken Levitan that also runs Adele's, The 404 Kitchen and Shep's Delicatessen, and the kitchen is mezze-driven and share-focused with vegetarian and gluten-free options throughout. For non-drinkers, Sadie's keeps a dedicated "Mocktails" section priced flat at $8 and built from fresh purées, citrus and house sodas rather than bought-in zero-proof spirits: Pathos (passionfruit, lime, hibiscus ginger beer), Pineapple Express (mint, almond orgeat, lime, pineapple soda) and Guava Ginger (guava purée, ginger, lime, guava soda). The list rotates — a Blueberry Butterfly and, more recently, a Strawberry Lemonade have both come and gone. Two non-alcoholic beers, Athletic Lite and an Untitled Art juicy IPA, round out the options, and mocktail specials are part of the weekday happy hour.

Urban Grub is a Southern seafood-and-grill restaurant in Nashville's 12 South neighborhood, opened in April 2012 by Jay Pennington and Billy Inman inside a renovated former carwash at the corner of 12th and Gilmore. Branded "Fresh Fish & Fine Aged Meats," the kitchen pairs Southern traditions with a flavored-up tweak — fresh-shucked oysters, smoked and grilled meats, and seafood. The bar maintains a named non-alcoholic program highlighted by local guide Nashville Guru for its "extensive selection" of zero-proof options. The current card runs four at $10 under a Non-Alcoholic Cocktails heading: a Fauxspresso Martini on Switters nitro cold brew with vanilla clove, Defying Gravity (Seedlip Agave, Lyre's Italian Orange, lemon and house grenadine), a Not Aperol Spritz on Lyre's Italian Orange with NA sparkling wine, and a Free Spirit of grapefruit, ginger syrup, lime and ginger beer — alongside non-alcoholic beer from Athletic Brewing (Lite, Golden Dawn, and Run Wild IPA) and other NA pours. It's a lively 12 South spot where non-drinkers have a real menu to choose from.