Lyre's in Denver, CO

Death & Co Denver is the second outpost of the New York cocktail bar, opened in 2018 inside The Ramble Hotel in Denver's River North Art District. Founders David Kaplan, Alex Day and Ravi DeRossi opened the original Death & Co in a windowless Manhattan room in 2007, where it helped lead the modern craft cocktail movement. The Denver location is a multi-bar complex within the boutique hotel: the marquee lobby bar with 1930s decor and plush velvet seating, the DC/AM coffee and brunch bar serving 7am to 3pm daily, the seasonal outdoor Garden, and Suite 6A, a mezzanine lounge overlooking the lobby bar. The bar keeps a standing Zero Proof section on its Denver menu, currently the Vibe Shift, Porch Swing, Business Casual and Cap Gun, alongside non-alcoholic wine and beer. Opening bar manager Alex Jump, since departed to open The Peach Crease Club, is widely credited as a founding figure of Denver's modern non-alcoholic bar scene.

El Five is a fifth-floor rooftop Mediterranean tapas restaurant in Denver's LoHi neighborhood, opened on May 3, 2017 by chef and restaurateur Justin Cucci as part of the employee-owned Edible Beats group. The dining room and open-air patio look across the downtown Denver skyline, and the menu draws on Spain, North Africa and the Middle East: paella, mezze, spreads, kebabs and croquettas. The current dinner menu carries a dedicated Zero-Proof Cocktails section rather than a token option. It runs the Faux Fashioned (Three Spirit Nightcap, spiced piloncillo, Turkish tobacco bitters), the Faux Negroni (Lyre's zero-proof spirit, verjus blanc, aperitif syrup, orange zest), the Scarlet Shrub (strawberry, pink peppercorn, champagne vinegar, soda) and a seasonal Faux Sangria, plus three of the bar's gin and tonics made zero-proof with Lyre's. Executive chef is Corey Ferguson. Dinner reservations are recommended, especially for the patio.

Yacht Club is a 2021-founded neighborhood bar in Denver's Cole neighborhood, co-owned by McLain Hedges and Mary Alison Wright. The 'anti-club club' concept sits at the crossroads of upscale cocktail haunt, natural wine bar, and beloved dive bar — with hot dogs and dim-sum-style snacks rounding out the food offering. The bar debuted on the World's 50 Best Bars list in 2023 and won the Ketel One Sustainable Bar Award at North America's 50 Best Bars the same year, recognized for sustainability initiatives including fermentation programs that extend the shelf life of seasonal ingredients. The non-alcoholic program is featured on the menu under 'soft bangers' and has been covered in detail by Visit Denver's December 2025 spirit-free roundup (the Paradise Waits — green pineapple, Lyre's white cane, celery, lime, curry leaf) and Sober Bars Finder's Denver mocktails feature (the Friends In Low Places — Three Spirit Nightcap, Late Harvest Verjus, coffee, N.O.T. Chocolate Vinegar). The split-based, wine-forward cocktail philosophy that defines the alcoholic menu extends to the NA program: thoughtful, ingredient-driven, and far from the standard mocktail playbook.

Nocturne Jazz & Supper Club is a modern jazz and supper club opened in 2015 by Nicole and Scott Mattson, set inside a restored early 20th-century warehouse in Denver's RiNo Arts District. The two-level art deco space — designed for the acoustics of its raw steel and tall wood ceilings, with a mezzanine overlooking the stage — features live jazz nightly Wednesday through Sunday, including an Artist-in-Residency programming where artists explore a single musical icon, genre, or original work across a four-to-eight-week run. The dinner program is built as 'Dinner and a Show' — a three-course seasonal menu paired with the evening's music — and Nocturne is the only venue in Colorado to feature jazz programming exclusively. The non-alcoholic offering is just as intentional as the live music: the seasonally-rotating 'Ain't Misbehavin'' menu is a curated collection of four original NA cocktails, available à la carte at the bar or paired with the dinner menu. Current and recent named selections include the Violet Suede (Lyre's N/A gin, verjus, aquafaba, blueberry pink peppercorn syrup), Crimson & Clover (Lyre's London Dry N/A gin, spiced cranberry syrup, soda), Cha Cha Chai (chai-infused Seedlip 94, rosemary, coconut water, cranberry, lemon, orange), and Golden Harmony (Lyre's White Cane Spirit, Seedlip Garden 108, tamarind, verjus, orange, spice whipped honey). A Billie Holiday mural by Denver street artist Detour marks the entrance. A per-guest artist fee is added to checks to support the performing musicians.

The Tatarian is a contemporary neighbourhood cocktail bar on Tennyson Street in Berkeley, opened in 2018 and named for the Tatarian maples that shade the sidewalks outside. Its drinks are themed around trees of the world, and the theme extends into the non-alcoholic list: the house zero-proof cocktail, Luna, is named in honour of the activist Julia Butterfly Hill, who occupied a thousand-year-old California redwood to stop it being logged. Unusually for a Denver bar, the back bar carries non-alcoholic spirits as stocked bottles rather than as a single house pour — CleanCo Tequila Blanco, Lyre's London Spirit and Seedlip Garden 108 are all listed by the glass — alongside Partake's non-alcoholic IPA. 303 Magazine picked the bar out in its 2025 sober-summer guide.

Narrative is the signature restaurant of The Jacquard, an Autograph Collection hotel in Cherry Creek North with a rooftop pool and bar. It runs a seasonal mocktail list alongside its cocktails, changed with the menu rather than held static: Visit Denver names Bitter Passion, built on passion fruit and ginger, and Herb Heaven, made with lemon, mint and cucumber. The restaurant opens at 6:30am on weekdays and 7am at weekends and serves through to 11pm, covering breakfast, lunch, dinner and late drinks in a neighbourhood where most kitchens close earlier. The rooftop gives the same drinks a second setting in summer. It is a modest but genuine zero-proof offering in a part of Denver that the city's existing non-alcoholic coverage has largely missed.