Seedlip in New York, NY

An all-day, fully alcohol-free cafe and cocktail bar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, from "Summer House" star Carl Radke. Premium coffee and espresso by day; a full menu of zero-proof "soft cocktails" built on non-alcoholic spirits and functional ingredients by night.

Caffe Dante is the Greenwich Village original at 79–81 MacDougal Street, named the World's Best Bar in 2019 and famous for its Negroni and Garibaldi programmes. Note that three separate Dante rooms share one website — this is the MacDougal Street original, not Dante West Village on Hudson Street or Dante Aperitivo on Bank Street. CORRECTION TO OUR EARLIER LISTING: we previously described a zero-proof menu called "Temperance" led by a signature "NOgroni". Neither appears anywhere on Dante's site or current menus, and we could not source either name; they have been removed. The real section is headed simply NON-ALCOHOLIC and runs five drinks: an Espresso Shakerato with orange juice and vanilla ($16), an NA Cosmojito with Dante cranberry, mint, lime and orange bitters ($14), a Dante Italian Spritz on Lyre's ($16), an NA Blood Orange Spritz with Seedlip Grove, raspberry and balsamic ($17), and a Forest Highball on Everleaf Forest with clementine and saffron ($15). It was shortlisted, not a winner, at NYC's Best Bars for NA 2025.

IMPORTANT — LISTEN BAR APPEARS TO BE DORMANT. It is a pioneering alcohol-free bar that has always run as a roving pop-up rather than a fixed venue, founded by Lorelei Bandrovschi after a friend dared her to spend a month without drinking, and first opened in October 2018 as a five-day proof-of-concept in an empty South Williamsburg bar space. Staffed by musician bartenders, it became one of the original templates for the modern non-alcoholic bar and drew national press. As of August 2026, however, we can find no confirmed activity dated later than January 2025: the newest entry on its own events page is the Good AF Awards 2025, and no 2026 edition or event appears anywhere. Its website and Instagram both remain live and are written in the present tense, which is not the same as being open. Documented signature drinks have included Actual Sunshine, created by Eamon Rockey, and Dollar Slice, by Aaron Polsky, alongside Athletic Brewing beer and Pilot Kombucha on tap. Check before planning around it.

A split-level Japanese-American cocktail bar in Greenwich Village from Masahiro "Masa" Urushido, a perennial fixture on The World's 50 Best Bars list. Its menu of highballs, boilermakers and signature cocktails runs alongside a named no-ABV drink, non-alcoholic beer, and classic highballs that can be made alcohol-free with Seedlip.

A lively West Village Thai restaurant inspired by Bangkok's late-night dining scene, with an award-winning cocktail program that includes a Seedlip-based non-alcoholic option.

Minus Moonshine is a fully alcohol-free bottle shop in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, opened in 2021 by founder Aqxyl Storms — making it one of New York City's earliest dedicated zero-proof package shops. From the street it reads like a neighborhood liquor store, but every bottle is non-alcoholic: NA beer, wine, spirits, aperitifs, mixers, bitters, and adaptogenic "potions." Inventory spans well-known zero-proof names including Ghia, Seedlip, Kin Euphorics, and Curious Elixirs, alongside NA wines and CBD/adaptogen spritzers. The shop is Queer, Trans-Nonbinary, Indigenous and Autistic owned, and is built around the idea of "drink what you love" — non-alcoholic whiskey, wine and aperitivo for sober and sober-curious customers, rather than substitutes framed as compromises. A second Brooklyn shop is open in Greenpoint, at 257 Driggs Ave.

The second Minus Moonshine bottle shop, on the corner of Driggs Avenue and Eckford Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Like the original Prospect Heights store it is entirely alcohol-free: NA beer, wine, spirits, aperitifs, ready-to-drink cocktails, mixers and bitters, from a stock list the shop has been building since 2021 that includes Ghia, Seedlip, Kin Euphorics and Curious Elixirs. Minus Moonshine is Queer, Trans-Nonbinary, Indigenous and Autistic owned, and founder Aqxyl Storms has run both shops on a "drink what you love" premise — zero-proof versions of the drinks people actually miss, rather than substitutes framed as compromises. Open seven days a week, with same-day local delivery on orders placed online before 5pm.

Clemente Bar opened in October 2024 on the second floor of chef Daniel Humm's three-Michelin-star Eleven Madison Park, in NoMad/Flatiron at the corner of Madison Avenue and East 24th Street. It is a collaboration with — and named for — Italian artist Francesco Clemente, whose original murals swirl through the room and around the back bar. The bar comprises a 38-seat Lounge serving à la carte food and drinks, plus a nine-seat Studio offering a five-course tasting with cocktail pairings. Like EMP, the food is fully plant-based. The beverage program, overseen by EMP's drinks team, includes a dedicated menu of "soft cocktails" and a fully non-alcoholic pairing option available with the Studio tasting menu. Named zero-proof drinks include the Proxy Fizz (Seedlip Garden, cucumber, green apple, amazake) and a non-alcoholic Kalimotxo. Clemente Bar entered North America's 50 Best Bars at No. 11 in 2025, winning the Best New Opening Award, and ranked No. 15 in 2026.

Spirited Away was America's first booze-free bottle shop and it is still the most complete one in New York, now on Eighth Avenue in Chelsea after starting life on Mott Street. Nothing on the shelves contains meaningful alcohol. The buy runs past 100 brands — Seedlip and Ritual Zero Proof alongside Ghia and The Pathfinder, Copenhagen Sparkling Tea, Unified Ferments, non-alcoholic wines from Sovi and Prima Pave, plus beers, bitters, shrubs, amari, mixers and ready-to-drink cocktails. It opens noon to 8pm every day of the week and delivers across Manhattan, free over $100. The shop is not just retail: it runs in-store tastings and events, which for a lot of people is the low-pressure way into the category.

The Penrose calls itself the Upper East Local, and it backs that up with something almost no neighbourhood gastropub bothers with: a properly built list of eleven named non-alcoholic cocktails, published alongside the alcoholic ones rather than buried. Express Yourself is its espresso martini, Garden Tonic its zero-proof G&T, Peach Fuzz a boozeless bellini, Good Vibrations a no-alcohol negroni sbagliato, and Sunday Kinda Love a virgin bloody mary; there is also Lyre's non-alcoholic prosecco by the glass, plus NA beer. It serves alcohol too — this is a full bar, not an alcohol-free room — but it opens at 11:30am and runs to 4am daily, which makes it the most usefully late NA list in upper Manhattan.

Bar Moga is a 1920s-era Japanese cocktail bar on West Houston Street, built around the Taisho-period idea of yōshoku — Western dishes absorbed into Japanese cooking — with jazz, shochu and Japanese whisky at its centre. It won its category at the inaugural NYC's Best Bars for NA Awards for what the judges described as a narrative-driven, Japanese cocktail-inspired non-alcoholic menu: drinks built to tell the same story as the alcoholic list rather than to sit apart from it. It serves alcohol as well as the zero-proof list. Hours run 5pm to midnight, to 12:30am on Friday and Saturday, with a weekend lunch service from noon.

The Portrait Bar sits inside The Fifth Avenue Hotel in NoMad, a maximalist room hung with portraiture that reads as considered rather than merely lavish. It won its category at the inaugural NYC's Best Bars for NA Awards, where the judges singled out an intimate maximalist setting paired with a confident non-alcoholic list — confident being the operative word, since hotel bars are where zero-proof menus most often collapse into a token pair of juices. It serves alcohol too. Hours are unusually generous for a room of this quality: 5pm to 1am through the week and to 2am on Friday and Saturday, seven days.

Saint Eve's is a small, intimate cocktail bar on 12th Street in Park Slope, shortlisted at the inaugural NYC's Best Bars for NA Awards. It is deliberately tiny — the bar states it cannot take parties of six or more — which makes it the opposite of a destination and rather good as a place to sit and talk. It serves alcohol and does not publish a named non-alcoholic list, so the zero-proof drinking here rests on the bartender rather than on a printed menu; ask, and expect something built rather than poured. Open 5pm until close, seven nights. Mockingbird, South Brooklyn's dedicated alcohol-free bar, is a short walk away for anyone who wants a room with no alcohol in it.