Seedlip in Cleveland, OH

Verbena Free Spirited is a fully alcohol-free cafe, bottle shop and dry bar in the Hingetown corner of Ohio City, opened in July 2023 by Molly Cheraso and the first entirely alcohol-free gathering space in the city. It runs a daytime menu of Duck Rabbit espresso, loose-leaf tea and house-made vegan-friendly food, then switches to a list of built free-spirited cocktails at $8 to $9. The Bottle Shoppe carries roughly a hundred products — non-alcoholic spirits, de-alcoholised wine, zero-proof aperitifs and functional drinks. Some bar builds use kava-based ingredients, which the menu labels.

Cordelia is a restaurant on downtown Cleveland's East Fourth Street from chef Vinnie Cimino and co-owner Andrew Watts, serving what Cimino calls Midwest melting pot meets modern grandma — heritage cooking built around the farmers the kitchen buys from. It opened in 2022, took Cleveland Magazine's Best New Restaurant in 2023, and Cimino was a James Beard Award finalist and a Food & Wine Best New Chef in 2025. Rather than keeping a token mocktail list, the bar rebuilds cocktails from the main menu with Lyre's and Seedlip and its own syrups, at the same prices.

Amazonia is a bar and wood-fired pizza kitchen inside a converted house on Hopkins Avenue in Lakewood's Birdtown, where everything on both menus is made from scratch. Its zero-proof drinks get the same construction as the full-proof ones — house-made syrups, Seedlip and Lyre's spirits, and the same smoking and charring work — and the alcohol-free Coconut Song is served at $15, exactly what the original costs. The room is 21-and-over, opens at 4pm daily except Monday, and runs to 2am on Friday and Saturday nights.

Humble Wine Bar is a neighbourhood wine bar on Detroit Avenue in Lakewood serving stone-oven Neapolitan-style pizza and curated small plates alongside a by-the-glass list. A wine bar is the hardest format in which to drink well without alcohol, which is what makes its standing commitment to keeping several non-alcoholic options worth noting. The house benchmark is the Phony Negroni at $10 — Seedlip Spice for the botanical backbone, DHOS Bittersweet for the amaro bitterness, aperitivo rosso for the vermouth weight — stirred and served in the same glass as the original.