Seedlip in Pittsburgh, PA

The Open Road is an alcohol-free bottle shop on Penn Avenue in Garfield, founded by Mel Babitz and widely described as the country's oldest non-alcoholic specialty retailer. It began as a Dry January pop-up inside a downtown coffee shop in January 2020, took a storefront in Allentown in March 2022, and moved to the larger Garfield space — with room for an on-premise bar — in August 2024. Babitz says the shelves hold over 400 non-alcoholic beers, wines, spirits and ready-to-drink cocktails, with a deliberate emphasis on Pennsylvania producers including Jackworth, Two Frays, Cinderlands and Arsenal Cider House. IMPORTANT FOR ANYONE AVOIDING ALL INTOXICANTS: by the owner's own account roughly half the store is functional beverages rather than plain alcohol-free ones, and that half includes hemp-derived THC and CBD drinks, kava and adaptogenic mushroom products. Examples carried include a 10mg THC seltzer, a 20mg CBD seltzer, a hemp-and-lion's-mane soda at 3mg THC, and a kava spirit at 150mg kavalactones per serving. Everything is labelled, but alcohol-free is not the same as inert here — read the can.

Bar Botanico is a plant-filled Lawrenceville cocktail bar with a strong zero-proof lineup built on NA spirits. Signature mocktails include the Cut Above Mezcal Sour (Cut Above NA mezcal, coconut water, lapsang, jalapeno, lemon, vegan foamer), a Seedlip Highball and a Seedlip Espresso Martini, plus Red Ribbon seltzer and house-made lemonade and citrus soda. It is frequently cited among the city's best mocktail bars.

ELEVEN is big Burrito Restaurant Group's flagship fine-dining restaurant, opened in 2004 as the group's eleventh — hence the name — in a rehabilitated warehouse on Smallman Street beside the old rail lines in the Strip District. Eli Wahl has been executive chef since 2016, only the third in its history, and Pittsburgh Magazine named it one of the city's 25 best restaurants for 2026. Wine and beverage director Rob Hirst builds the zero-proof list by taking a popular cocktail and re-creating it without alcohol, and it is printed as its own section headed "Zero Proof / NA Cocktails": the Cosmo-not ($12) on Seedlip Grove 42 and Dhos Orange with cranberry and lime; the Pink Flamingo ($12) on Dhos gin-free with strawberry-honey, lemon, cucumber and mint; Pimm's Pathfinder ($12), a faithful Pimm's Cup on Pathfinder amaro with cucumber and Fever-Tree ginger beer; and Sunrise Over Smallman ($14) on Ritual non-alcoholic tequila. Heineken 0.0 and Sam Adams Just the Haze cover the beer. The list rotates.

Kaya is a big Burrito Restaurant Group Caribbean and South American restaurant on Smallman Street in the Strip District, open since the mid-1990s; Marla Beamon became the first woman promoted to executive chef in a big Burrito kitchen when she took it over in 1997. It runs a dedicated zero-proof programme built on Seedlip and fresh citrus, printed under its own heading, "Zero-Proof Cocktails", with everything at $12 — the same price as most of the room's alcoholic cocktails. The list holds the Blood Orange Hibiscus Cosmo-Not (Seedlip Grove, blood orange purée, hibiscus syrup, lime), the No-Jito (Seedlip Garden, mint, lime), an N/A Margarita on Ritual's tequila alternative, and a Honey Hibiscus Spritz on Azzenta sparkling chardonnay. The margarita and the No-Jito can both be flavoured with blood orange, guava, mango, pineapple or strawberry. A separate "Non-Alcoholic Refreshers" section adds a Fruit Cocktail Mocktail ($10) and house Kaya Juice ($8 a glass, $22 a carafe). A Piña No-Lada appears in older coverage but is no longer on the menu.

The Commoner is the American-tavern restaurant and bar inside the Kimpton Hotel Monaco at 620 William Penn Place in Downtown Pittsburgh, and the hotel's own site confirms it as the operating restaurant there. Its zero-proof programme is led by Kyle Turner, a sober bartender, who designs a rotating line-up of non-alcoholic cocktails built on the serious bottles — Seedlip, Pathfinder, Lyre's and Trejo's. Drinks including a Pandan Express, The Wandering Path, a Machete and an N/Aperol Spritz have appeared on the list. IMPORTANT PRACTICAL NOTE: The Commoner publishes its food menus online but not its cocktail list, so the current zero-proof line-up cannot be checked in advance and we could not confirm which of those drinks is pouring today — the programme is real and well regarded, but the specific drink is a question for the bar. The bar runs later than the kitchen, to 11pm most nights and midnight on Friday and Saturday, with a seasonal biergarten. Do not confuse it with The Commoner Corner, a small separate to-go concept at the same building that has closed. Parties of eight or more carry an automatic 20% gratuity.

Shorty's GoodTimes Bar — until recently Shorty's Pins x Pints — is a 10,000 square foot "retro-tainment" bar at 353 North Shore Drive with a 5,000 square foot patio, opened in February 2022 in the old Tilted Kilt space across from Burgatory. The draw is the games: eight duckpin bowling lanes ($15 per person per hour before 4pm, $20 after), pinball, vintage arcade machines, shuffleboard, bocce, foosball, cornhole, bubble hockey and camp-style fire pits outside. NOTE: the taco menu it opened with is gone from this location — North Shore now serves American pub food (wings $14.50, smash burgers from $14, sammies from $14.50), and tacos survive only as a Tuesday special at the separate Waterfront site. Its non-alcoholic drinks are built on Seedlip and printed on the menu: the Fauxjito ($8), Espressno ($8), Don't Call Me Shirley ($7), the Mock-Arita in classic or strawberry ($6) and JayNO & Ginger ($6). All ages are welcome before 9pm; after 9pm on Friday and Saturday it is 21-and-over.