Wilderton in San Francisco, CA

Copra is a coastal South Indian restaurant that opened in 2023 in San Francisco's Fillmore / Lower Pac Heights neighborhood, led by Michelin-starred chef Srijith "Sri" Gopinathan, drawing on the cuisines of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Alongside a full cocktail and wine program, Copra runs a serious zero-proof menu that mirrors its cocktail list, building drinks from the same Southeast Asian-leaning pantry — coconut yogurt, makrut lime, star anise, lemongrass, and orange blossom — rather than treating non-alcoholic options as an afterthought. Several of the zero-proof cocktails are built on non-alcoholic spirits including Wilderton Lustre and Vibrante NA vermouth. Named pours include the Orange Ruby (lemongrass, Wilderton Lustre, Vibrante, orange blossom, tonic, makrut lime), the Salty City (coconut yogurt, cucumber, salt, black garlic, lemon), and the Tiger's Eye (cinnamon, star anise, lemon, Wilderton Lustre, bittersweet aperitivo). The room is a tropical, design-forward space.

Bar Iris is a Japanese-influenced craft cocktail bar at 2310 Polk Street in Russian Hill / Polk Gulch, opened in early 2022 as the sibling to chef David Yoshimura's Michelin-starred restaurant Nisei next door. The program leans on Japanese spirits and long, seasonal ingredient lists, and its non-alcoholic offering is unusually deep: the bar keeps a standalone alcohol-free menu that currently runs nine N/A cocktails named for Japanese places, from the Kyoto — a non-alcoholic martini of Amass and Dhōs N/A spirits with Aplos Arise, narazuke brine and tsukemono — to the Yakushima (Okinawa purple yam, Wilderton Earthen, kalamansi, li hin mui), alongside a bottle list of dealcoholized sake, sparkling wine and riesling. Several cocktails on the main list are also marked as available non-alcoholic, and The San Francisco Standard has reported that more than half its cocktails can be made without alcohol.

Wildseed is a 100% plant-based restaurant on the corner of Union and Buchanan in Cow Hollow, serving a Mediterranean-leaning menu of shareable plates, mezze, and pizzas. Its bar treats non-alcoholic drinks as a real category rather than an afterthought: a dedicated mocktail list and a "0% ABV" refreshments section appear right on the cocktail menu. Zero-proof builds lean on NA spirits and house ingredients — fresh juices, shrubs, kombuchas, and homemade extracts — including a Negroni AF (NA Ritual gin, melati amaro, house aperitivo, orange), a Love & Lavender (NA Ritual gin, lavender, butterfly pea tea, Wilderton citrus, fee foam), an NA Spicy Pineapple Margarita (jalapeño-infused NA tequila, pineapple, lime, Tajín), and a Serenity Spritz. Lower-effort options include Charcoal Lemonade, Koast Kombucha, house sodas, and cold-pressed juices, making it a dependable spot for an alcohol-free dinner out.

Cavaña is a Latin American rooftop bar on the seventeenth floor of the LUMA Hotel in Mission Bay, with a dance floor, a DJ and skyline views over the ballpark. It trades to midnight on weeknights and 1am on Friday and Saturday. The alcohol-free drinks are printed under a spirit-free heading on the main cocktail menu and run to six: Maracuyá, built on Almave agave spirit and Wilderton Citrus with aperitivo, passionfruit agave and lime; Phoney Mezcal Negroni, with a Peruvian agave distillate, Pathfinder amaro and Abstinence blood orange aperitif; Guava Fresca; Michelada-Nada, made with non-alcoholic cerveza and the house michelada mix; Chicha Morada, the Peruvian purple corn punch; and Bananito, spiced banana oat milk with a cold brew float.