Best Non-Alcoholic Bars in Asheville, NC

Cúrate Bar de Tapas is a Spanish tapas restaurant at 13 Biltmore Avenue in downtown Asheville, founded in 2011 by chef Katie Button and Félix Meana. It won the James Beard Foundation's Outstanding Hospitality Award in 2022, Button has twice been a Best Chef in the Southeast finalist, and the restaurant was recommended in the 2025 Michelin Guide. The kitchen serves gildas, pan con tomate, croquetas, gazpacho, patatas bravas, tortilla española and pulpo a la gallega alongside a jamón counter and paella, with a Cúrate Experience prix fixe at $80. Its drinks list carries a dedicated "Sin Alcohol" section structured like the wine list rather than as an afterthought: a non-alcoholic gin and tonic on Dhos with Franklin & Sons tonic, a Solo Agrio built on Kentucky 74 non-alcoholic bourbon with Le Naturel Zero Zero red and lemon, St. Agrestis's Phony Negroni, and an N/A Sangría made with Le Naturel Zero Zero and an orange oleo. Le Naturel's Zero Zero blanco and tinto are poured as wine, with Estrella Galicia 0.0 and Sierra Nevada Trail Pass IPA on the beer list. Children of any age are welcome. No drink prices are published online.

The Whale is a beloved West Asheville craft-beer bar that, in Beer City, runs one of the deepest non-alcoholic beer programs around: regularly eight or more NA beers — IPAs, stouts, pilsners, and sours — rotating on tap and by the can, plus NA cider from Normandy, kombucha, and sparkling water. It treats 0.5%-and-under beer as a real, curated part of the board rather than a token option, which is exactly the point in a town this obsessed with beer.

Sierra Nevada's East Coast home is a destination brewery and taproom in Mills River, south of Asheville, and it is one of the few local taprooms that brews its own non-alcoholic beer: the Trail Pass line (Trail Pass IPA and Trail Pass Golden, 0.5% ABV), made with a special yeast that leaves the beer near-zero rather than removing alcohol afterward, plus Hop Splash hop water. The non-drinker gets a genuinely brewed NA pint in a proper brewery setting.

The Draftsman opened on 21 June 2023 at 68 Patton Avenue downtown as the bar and restaurant of The Restoration Hotel, and it is a more relaxed proposition than a hotel bar usually is — there is a bowling alley in it, called Up Your Alley, run first-come-first-served by signing up at the bar rather than booked ahead. The kitchen is straightforward and well priced for downtown: deviled eggs with local farm eggs, pickled mustard seeds and bacon at $8, a short rib and chuck Draftsman Burger at $17, and a jalapeño buttermilk fried chicken sandwich with Alabama white sauce at $16. It builds its non-alcoholic drinks with the same care as the full list rather than treating them as an afterthought, leaning on zero-proof aperitifs like Ghia — the Clear Morning Spritz (Ghia Amaro, lemon, grapefruit, soda) and a spirit-free Phony Negroni — so the non-drinker gets a properly crafted cocktail in a real cocktail room. Open from 5pm Thursday and Friday and from 11.30am at weekends.

Mountain Madre is a Mexican kitchen and agave bar at 13 W Walnut Street in downtown Asheville, from owners Danny and Paige Scully, who built it to bring families and friends together. The kitchen runs empanadas at $14, chorizo-stuffed avocado at $18, downtown street tacos at $15, smoked brisket tacos at $17, enchiladas at $21 and carne asada at $34, with a proper kids' menu. It reopened with limited hours after Hurricane Helene. Its non-alcoholic drinks sit in a clearly separate section headed "0% ABV Cocktails", all built on Seedlip: the Prickly Pear ($13, Seedlip Notas de Agave, fresh lime, agave), Spicy Fuego ($15, Seedlip Garden 108, habanero pineapple syrup, lime) and Spiced Violet ($16, Seedlip Spice 94, blackberry syrup, lime). IMPORTANT: the bar's Blackberry Smoke and Spice of Life are full-strength margaritas built on mezcal and tequila and appear only in the alcoholic Margaritas section — order from the 0% ABV list by name.

Antidote is a three-storey cocktail lounge and coffee bar that opened in 2018 at 151 Coxe Avenue in the South Slope, built as a turn-of-the-century apothecary and attached to the Chemist Spirits distillery next door. Mountain Xpress described it on opening as aiming for a cosy, quiet, upscale vibe with Prohibition-style décor in the manner of a traditional gentleman's cigar bar — though, as the paper noted, happily free of cigars and sexism. The award-winning cocktail team turns the same craft to zero-proof drinks, served all day: an apothecary-inspired menu of espresso, coffee, tea and non-alcoholic mocktails, with the Cold Brew Old Fashioned and Cold Brew Mojito among them. The all-day format is what makes it useful — it works as a morning coffee stop and an evening cocktail room in the same seat, in Asheville's densest brewery-and-bar district.

The Times Bar & Coffee Shop occupies part of the S&W Building at 56 Patton Avenue downtown, a 1929 Art Deco landmark built as the S&W Cafeteria and one of the finest buildings in the city — the interior still keeps Prohibition-era details including dumbwaiters and hidden tunnels. It is really two businesses running from one address, and that is the reason it belongs in this guide: a coffee shop through the day and a cocktail bar at night, in the same room, with the same staff, so a non-drinker arriving at 11am and one arriving at 9pm order from the same counter. The spirit-free list is seasonal, unusual and savoury-leaning rather than sugary, rotating with the same kitchen-driven creativity as the cocktails. A standout has been the Kimchi Refresher — kimchi, mandarin, almond orgeat and lime — the kind of drink that makes ordering the non-alcoholic option feel like the interesting choice.

Burial Beer Co. was born in the summer of 2013 out of a renovated transmission shop at 40 Collier Avenue — as the brewery puts it, before it was the South Slope. Three founders moved from Seattle and opened nine months later on a 30-gallon brewhouse producing 150 barrels a year, with no employees, doing everything themselves including tending the bar. It now anchors Asheville's densest brewing district and has opened outposts elsewhere; the original taproom is the one it calls the crypt from which its story was born. For non-drinkers it keeps a Burial-branded non-alcoholic beer on the board — Chaosmachine, a non-alcoholic IPA under 0.5% ABV made with barley and oats and hopped with Citra and Mosaic — often alongside a second rotating NA option. One of the city's most sought-after beer names therefore has a spot for the non-drinker too. Note that Burial's NA cans are contract-packaged rather than confirmed brewed on site.

Hi-Wire Brewing's Biltmore Village taproom is a 27,000-square-foot production brewery and taproom at 2A Huntsman Pl, Asheville, opened in summer 2015, with vibrant indoor and outdoor murals, a large sun-shaded patio and free parking. Guajiro Cuban Comfort Food is permanently parked on site, and outside food is welcome. The taproom is pet- and family-friendly, open from 11am at weekends and 3pm on Mondays. IMPORTANT for anyone avoiding intoxicants: the taproom lists its non-alcoholic and THC options together, and alongside N/A beer, local High Noon nitro cold brew and local soda it sells Hi-Wire's own Hi-Jinks THC-infused sparkling water, produced in 2mg and 5mg doses in Original and Clementine. The N/A beer itself is not named on the venue's page. Note that the Hi-Wire facility destroyed by Helene flooding was the separate River Arts District site at 284 Lyman St, which reopened in May 2025 — not this Biltmore Village taproom.

Hillman Beer is a family-owned brewpub that opened in April 2017 at 25 Sweeten Creek Road near Biltmore Village, run by brothers Brad and Greig Hillman with Greig's wife Brandi. Brad picked up homebrewing in 2006 while living in Brooklyn, and the first beer out of the garage was a Dunkelweizen they named Dingaudamnit — which tells you the register the place operates in. His brief was a brewpub with a comfortable environment and a cool vibe, and the beer has backed the ambition up with Great American Beer Festival medals in three consecutive years within the brewery's first three. The taproom keeps the non-drinker in mind: Athletic Brewing non-alcoholic beer on hand, plus locally made Devil's Foot craft sodas — an Asheville mocktail-base staple — kombucha and soda. A relaxed, food-forward brewery where the alcohol-free options are genuine craft rather than the usual cola-or-water default.

High Climate Tea Company is a downtown single-origin Chinese and Taiwanese loose-leaf tea shop and lounge whose signature is the tea "flight" — a roughly 30-minute guided tasting at a tea bar, with a tea "bartender" walking you through each tea and its heritage, plus a back lounge for shared pots. It is a calm, alcohol-free social third space built around the ritual of tea rather than a grab-and-go counter — a quiet counterpoint to Asheville's busier bar scene.