Ritual Zero Proof in Dallas, TX

Beyond the Bar is DFW's first alcohol-free bottle shop and dry bar, and by its own account the only one in Texas — a zero-proof shop and tasting room in a 1958 mid-century building in Richardson's Core District. The range runs past 280 products, from Athletic, Seedlip, Lyre's and Ritual to Almave, Ghia, Pathfinder and De Soi, alongside dealcoholised wines and functional drinks. The bar pours its own builds, including the Italian Spritz that won the Dallas Observer's Best Mocktail award, and the room hosts tastings and zero-proof cocktail classes.

Encina is a farm-to-table New American restaurant in Oak Cliff's Bishop Arts District, operating since 2020, with a documented zero-proof cocktail menu built on Ritual Zero Proof spirits—priced at $10 each—alongside Athletic Brewing on the beer list.

Uchi Dallas is the Uptown / Oak Lawn outpost of the contemporary Japanese sushi brand founded by James Beard Award-winning chef Tyson Cole, which opened here in June 2015 as the third Uchi location. Set on Maple Avenue (with sister izakaya-cocktail bar Uchiba upstairs), it pairs hot and cold tastings, sashimi, and seasonal omakase with a genuinely built-out zero-proof program rather than a token mocktail. The current menu carries a standalone "Zero Proof Cocktails" section of six named drinks built on premium NA spirits — including the Zero Crush (Crodino, yuzu, Oddbird sparkling, soda), Mitsu Mitsu (Ritual ZP gin, rosemary, yuzu honey), Akabanaa (Ritual ZP agave, hibiscus-lime), and Jonetsu (Ghia, passion fruit, habanero) — alongside dedicated zero-proof beer (Athletic Brewing Free Wave, Best Day Kölsch) and Oddbird non-alcoholic wines.

Partenope is a downtown Dallas Neapolitan restaurant and pizzeria whose bar builds genuine spirit-free versions of the Italian classics rather than defaulting to sodas. Its zero-proof set runs $9 and leans on house-made components — a house-made bitter non-alcoholic liquor and a house-made non-alcoholic sweet vermouth — alongside named brands like Ritual Zero Proof gin and Lyre's. The NA Negroni in particular is built almost entirely from those house-made NA aperitivo elements, which is what pushes these past off-the-shelf mocktails.

Lounge Here is a retro '70s cocktail lounge in East Dallas near White Rock Lake, opened by musicians Julie Doyle and Tim DeLaughter (The Polyphonic Spree, Tripping Daisy) beside their Good Records shop. Its zero-proof options go past a token soda: a named mocktail like Memaw's Apple Pie (apple cider, cinnamon syrup, lemon, ginger ale) sits alongside canned Athletic non-alcoholic beer and HOP WTR, a functional sparkling water dosed with ashwagandha and L-Theanine in Blood Orange and Mango. The bar builds its alcohol-free drinks with the same care as the full cocktail list, so non-drinking guests aren't stuck with a Shirley Temple.

Uchibā is the second-floor cocktail bar above Uchi in Uptown, and it runs the deepest zero-proof programme found in Dallas: four separate non-alcoholic sections covering cocktails, beer, wine and other drinks. The n/a cocktails include the Mitsu Mitsu with Ritual Zero Proof gin, yuzu, honey and rosemary, a Nattsu Sour built on Lyre's Amaretti with lemon and cherry, a hibiscus margarita on Ritual's tequila alternative, and Little Bird on sanbitter with pineapple and lime. The n/a beer list carries Athletic Brewing Run Wild and Best Day Kölsch, with dealcoholised Oddbird wines available by the glass or bottle. Open 5pm to 11pm daily.

Chelsea Corner is a long-running Knox-Henderson neighbourhood bar with a big patio, and it keeps a printed Zero Proof / Mocktail Menu that is deeper than most dedicated cocktail bars manage. Ritual Zero Proof does the heavy lifting: a zero-proof espresso martini, a Tommy's margarita and a cucumber mint spritz that adds Lyre's Classico. Beyond the cocktails there is Lyre's sparkling by the glass or as mimosas and bellinis, a michelada built on Heineken 0.0, and several Athletic Brewing varieties. It opens at ten on weekend mornings and runs to two on Friday and Saturday nights, so it works as an actual night out rather than a dinner reservation.

City Hall Bistro sits inside The Adolphus, the 1912 Beaux-Arts hotel downtown, and runs a Free Spirited section that appears on all four of its current menus — lunch, dinner and both in-room lists — rather than surfacing only for Dry January. The Blood Orange Mocktail is built on Ritual's tequila alternative with blood orange and ginger thyme; the Adolphus Spiced Tea combines Ritual's rum alternative with Seedlip Garden 108, orgeat and lemon into something warm-spiced and long. Clausthaler non-alcoholic beer rounds it out. One caution: the hotel publishes conflicting opening hours across two of its own official pages, so we have recorded none — call before planning breakfast or a late dinner.

The Libertine is a Lower Greenville neighbourhood pub whose printed Mocktails section has proven genuinely durable — all four drinks covered by press in January 2025 are still on the menu today, which is rare in a category built on seasonal promotions. The Aper-not Spritz uses Ritual's aperitif alternative with orange juice and grapefruit soda; alongside it sit a Lavender Bee's Knees, a Cucumber Mint Gimlet and a Shirley De-Luxe, all at one price. Athletic Brewing's Run Wild and Upside Dawn and Sam Adams Just the Haze cover non-alcoholic beer.

Loro is the Asian smokehouse from Austin chefs Tyson Cole and Aaron Franklin, and its East Dallas room on Haskell Avenue runs a printed Zero Proof section. The Strawberry Thai Basil Margarita is built on Ritual's tequila alternative; the canned St. Agrestis Phony Negroni gives the list a genuine bitter aperitivo option, which few restaurants stock and which matters a great deal against fatty smoked meat. A Spicy Cucumber, a Ginger Cooler and a frozen pink lemonade fill out the mixed drinks, with Best Day Brewing's Kölsch and Sapporo Zero on the non-alcoholic beer list. Note that press crediting this menu with Athletic Brewing and a kombucha Singapore Sling was describing the Addison location.

The Charlotte on Henderson Avenue prints a boxed Zero Proof section, and unusually every drink in it is a martini variant — the format zero-proof lists almost always skip, because a drink served up with nothing to hide behind is the hardest kind to build without alcohol. The Dirty Martini runs Ritual's gin alternative with olive juice and blue cheese-stuffed olives; alongside it sit a Pornstar Martini made with vanilla, pineapple, passion fruit and non-alcoholic sparkling, an espresso martini and a pomegranate martini. The restaurant publishes no telephone number and no closing times, and its own Instagram says only that it opens daily at 11am, so check before a late visit.

Goodwins is a Lower Greenville all-day restaurant whose current menu carries a section printed as NO ABV — a heading that leaves no ambiguity, on a stretch of Greenville Avenue where the competition is mostly bars. Both builds use Ritual Zero Proof spirits: the Mocking Marg pairs its tequila alternative with lime and agave, and the Ginger Peach Sour runs the gin alternative into peach, lime, ginger and rose water. Athletic Brewing and Crazy Mountain non-alcoholic beers sit on the same menu. Two drinks is a short list, and it lives inside a menu PDF rather than a drinks page, so it is easy to miss — but both are properly built on non-alcoholic distillates.

Uchiko in Legacy West carries three separate zero-proof sections — cocktails, wine and beer — which is more structure than most Dallas restaurants give the category. The cocktails include the mitsu mitsu on Ritual Zero Proof gin with rosemary and yuzu honey, an akabanaa built on Ritual's agave spirit with hibiscus and lime, and a tsuchi mule using the Scottish botanical spirit Feragaia, an unusually adventurous choice for a suburban dining room. Dealcoholised Oddbird and Wölffer Estate wines are poured by the glass, and the beer list carries Athletic Brewing, Best Day and Sapporo 0.0. Note this is the Plano room; Uchi Dallas is listed separately.