Athletic Brewing in Philadelphia, PA

Wallace Dry Goods is Ardmore's first fully non-alcoholic bottle shop, opened in early 2024 by owner Robin Cummiskey on the Main Line at 1 West Lancaster Avenue. Styled like a traditional bottle shop — shelves of "whiskey," wine, gin, and mixers — it stocks zero liquor; everything is alcohol-free. The shop sells NA spirits, beer, wine, cider, mixers, bitters, syrups, and ready-to-drink cans, plus barware, so non-drinkers have the same tools to build cocktails at home. Brands carried include Ghia, Ritual Zero Proof, Cut Above, Seedlip, Lyre's, Athletic Brewing, Abstinence, and Mingle Mocktails. A daily in-store tasting bar pours rotating samples and the occasional craft mocktail, and the shop hosts classes and events. Wallace Dry Goods was named Best Non-Alcoholic Bottle Shop in Philadelphia Magazine's 2024 Best of Philly awards.

R&D is a craft cocktail bar in Philadelphia's Fishtown neighborhood, opened in October 2018 in the former Root Restaurant & Wine Bar space at 1206 Frankford Avenue. It's run by Defined Hospitality, the group behind Suraya, Pizzeria Beddia, Condesa, and Kalaya; the cocktail program was built by Aaron Deary and is curated by bar manager Resa Mueller. R&D has won Best of Philly for Best Cocktail Bar. Beyond its acclaimed full bar, R&D maintains a permanent zero-proof presence on its menu, and bartenders also build custom non-alcoholic drinks on request. Mueller refreshes the zero-proof cocktails every few months, leaning on tiki-style builds with fresh juices, coconut, house-made syrups, small-batch sodas, and tannic teas. Named NA drinks have included the Virgin Piña Colada and a negroni-inspired build, plus NA beers from Athletic Brewing and Guinness 0.

Urban Farmer is the steakhouse inside the Logan Hotel on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and its drinks menu carries a printed section headed "No Proof Cocktails" rather than burying the alcohol-free options among the soft drinks. The Cadillac Shirley Temple at $12 is the one worth ordering — house grenadine and verjus with lemon-lime soda and a cherry, where the verjus does the job a dry wine would. The Crimson Fizz pairs cranberry with a cranberry shrub and Fever-Tree ginger beer, and the Fauxpresso Negroni builds St. Agrestis Phony Espresso Negroni into cold brew with orange. Athletic Brewing's Upside Dawn covers the beer side. The kitchen serves from seven in the morning until half past eleven at night.

Jerry's Bar is a Northern Liberties corner bar in a former general store, and its menu carries a printed "Mocktails" heading with four house builds between $8 and $9. The NA Toasted Coconut Espresso Martini is the most technically ambitious — cold brew with a toasted coconut simple syrup and coconut purée, shaken to the foam an espresso martini lives or dies by. Lady Lavender runs citrus with lavender simple and club soda; Sunflower Fizz uses a blackberry sunflower simple with pomegranate and lemon; and Hibiscus Breeze pairs hibiscus tea and grapefruit with a spicy lavender syrup. Athletic Brewing's non-alcoholic beer is $8. The Philadelphia Inquirer covered the bar as part of the city's first large-scale Dry January bar crawl in January 2026.

Flight Club is a social darts venue on Walnut Street, and it carries the deepest named non-alcoholic beer list found anywhere in Philadelphia: five, all priced and named — Sam Adams Just the Haze, Athletic's Cerveza Atlética, Lagunitas IPNA, Sierra Nevada Hop Splash and Guinness 0. On the cocktail side the Midway Splash builds Seedlip Grove 42 with pineapple, lemon and tonic, and there is a Lyre's flight of three at $13 running a G&T, an Amalfi Spritz and a Classico. The format is the real draw: the evening is organised around playing darts rather than around drinking, and the venue runs to one in the morning on Friday and Saturday.

Bloomsday is a small wine bar and cafe near Headhouse Square, and it does something almost no other bar in Philadelphia does: it runs a $6 non-alcoholic happy hour price all the time, year-round, rather than only in January. Cuddles on the Beach pairs pomegranate with orange; there is a house-made ginger beer, which is worth ordering because a genuine ginger beer is fermented and hot rather than sweet; and the fridge carries Well Being's non-alcoholic IPA, Collective Arts Hazy at 0.5% and Athletic's golden ale. For a wine bar — the venue type where a non-drinker is usually offered the least — a permanent zero-proof price is a meaningful commitment.

Royal Sushi & Izakaya in Queen Village runs a front-of-house izakaya and a twelve-seat omakase counter behind it, and chef-owner Jesse Ito is himself sober — which shows in how the non-alcoholic side is handled. The Yuzu Spritz builds yuzu and lime with plum bitters and soda; the Ginger Mint Smash runs mint and a ginger syrup with lime. Beyond the house builds the fridge is unusually well chosen: Athletic's Upside Dawn at 0.5%, Leitz Eins Zwei Zero sparkling Riesling as a genuine alternative to sake or wine with the food, and Kimino sodas made with Japanese fruit. For a sushi restaurant, having a proper non-alcoholic pairing rather than green tea is the whole point.

Talula's Garden looks onto Washington Square from the east side of the park, and is best known for a cheese programme that runs to a dedicated cave and a farm-driven seasonal menu. Its non-alcoholic offering is short but well made: The Perfectionist at $13 combines DHOS bittersweet aperitif with Töst alcohol-free sparkling, citrus, lavender and rosemary — an aperitif-style build with real bitterness and two herbs that place it alongside the kitchen's cooking rather than against it. Athletic Brewing's Run Wild IPA is $8. One house drink is a modest list, but the composition is serious and the setting is one of the more pleasant places in the city to spend a long evening.

The Dandelion is a British-style pub off Rittenhouse Square, part of the Starr Restaurants group, done in the full country-pub register — snugs, patterned wallpaper, fish and chips, a Sunday roast. Its non-alcoholic provision is bottled rather than mixed, but it is honestly labelled on the printed beer list: Athletic Brewing's Upside Dawn golden ale at $7, marked non-alcoholic, and St. Agrestis's Phony Negroni. That is a shorter answer than a cocktail bar would give, and we grade it accordingly. What it offers instead is a proper pub that serves food all day and stays open to midnight on Friday and Saturday, where nursing a non-alcoholic pint attracts no attention whatsoever.