Best Non-Alcoholic Bars in Chicago, IL

In Good Spirits is a dedicated non-alcoholic bottle shop and community space in Chicago's West Town, opened on July 15, 2023 by couple Adriana Gaspar and Hector Diaz. The two ran sober pop-ups around the city before securing a permanent storefront; both came to the alcohol-free life through personal experience — Gaspar stopped drinking after losing her father to COVID-19, and Diaz cut back following a kidney cancer diagnosis. The shelves carry zero-proof beer, wine, spirits, aperitifs, functional and hemp drinks, and RTDs to take away, with local delivery and online pick-up ordering. This is a shop rather than a bar — drinks are sold to go, not poured to sit with. Beyond retail it works as a third space, and the events calendar is the reason to plan a visit: sober supper clubs with local restaurants, zero-proof cocktail workshops, 'POUring' brand tastings with producers such as Copenhagen Sparkling Tea Co. and Kolonne Null, book swaps, artist showcases, sound meditations, and Lotería nights. It is Chicago's longest-running non-alcoholic shop.

CHECK BEFORE YOU TRAVEL — this listing has changed. Prāzbar is a faith-based, fully non-alcoholic wine project founded by Quenjana Adams, which began as pop-ups in Bronzeville and West Town in late 2021 and opened a permanent shop, "2048", at 2048 W Chicago Ave in September 2023, named for its address. As of August 2026 we cannot confirm that shop is still trading: all three of its own web properties are dead (2048chi.com no longer resolves, and both of its Square storefronts return 404), prazbar.com now forwards to a ticket page for a one-off fashion event at a different venue, and no opening hours have been publishable since 2023. What is definitely active is the brand. Adams posts regularly, and in June 2026 announced that Prāzbar is building a permanent music venue for faith-genre live music in Chicago — writing that the team has spent several years producing live faith and music events in the city and that "today, we are building that home." Treat Prāzbar for now as an alcohol-free events producer with a venue in development. The wines it pours are all between 0% and 0.5% ABV.

Eli Tea Bar is an explicitly alcohol-free "sober bar" in Andersonville, opened in November 2021 by founder Elias "Eli" Majid, who launched the original Eli Tea in Birmingham, Michigan in 2012 and attended Loyola University in Chicago. Occupying the former True North cafe space at 5507 N Clark St, it pours more than 100 loose-leaf teas, kombucha on tap, house bubble/boba tea (made with fresh milk, boiled tea, and tapioca pearls), chai, tea lattes, and tea-based mocktails such as the kombucha-nada. Majid describes the concept as sitting "between a wine bar and coffee shop," built to give LGBTQ+ and sober-curious Chicagoans a late-night place to gather without alcohol. Evenings bring open mics, book clubs, craft nights, trivia, drag bingo, and DJ sets. By late 2024 the shop was outpacing its sales goals and planning a line of canned non-alcoholic tonics.

Solar Intentions is a 100% non-alcoholic bottle shop and hangout in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood, proudly lesbian-owned and stocked with NA beers, wines, spirits, and RTD cocktails for both browsing and on-site sipping.

Bar None is a zero-proof evening bar in Chicago's West Loop, running Friday to Sunday from 5pm to 11pm inside Froth, the coffee cafe in the lobby of The Duncan at 1515 W Monroe St. It launched on 28 February 2026 from Heritage Hospitality Group, the team behind Froth, with beverage director Luke Nevin-Gattle (previously Bunker and Larry's). Every cocktail is genuinely alcohol-free, built on real NA spirits at $13 — a St. Agrestis Phony Negroni, an espresso martini with Ritual rum alternative and Pathfinder, Good Vibrations with Ritual gin alternative and Giffard elderflower, a spicy margarita with Ritual agave and Lyre's Italian orange, and a Gold Rush — alongside nine non-alcoholic beers and ciders at $6 and Leitz Eins Zwei Zero wines at $9. IMPORTANT: the venue brands itself a THC-integrated sober lounge. Any cocktail can be upgraded with a 2.5mg THC microdose for $4, and it sells 5mg THC seltzers at $9. The alcohol-free drinks stand on their own, but anyone avoiding all intoxicants should order without the upgrade and skip the seltzers.

Qamaria Yemeni Coffee is a large, fully alcohol-free Yemeni coffeehouse on the stretch of North Kedzie Avenue in Albany Park that has become Chicago's densest cluster of Middle Eastern cafes. It is the Chicago outpost of Qamaria Yemeni Coffee Co., founded by Yemeni entrepreneurs Hatem and Munif with the stated mission of sharing Yemeni-sourced coffee with the world, and it keeps the late hours that define the category: open until midnight most nights and until 1am on Friday and Saturday. The room is built for sitting rather than grabbing and going, with a deep floor of tables a block north of the CTA Brown Line's Kedzie stop. The menu runs on light-roast Yemeni coffee, spiced milk drinks, signature lattes and a case of Middle Eastern pastries and cakes. No alcohol is served at any hour.

Queen Yemeni Coffee is an alcohol-free Yemeni coffeehouse that opened in May 2026 in the ground floor of the historic Bridgeview Bank building at Lawrence Avenue and Broadway in Uptown, taking over a space that had been a Starbucks. It is the second location of a small operation that started in suburban Libertyville, and it is run as a late-night room: doors open at 5am and stay open until midnight on weeknights and 1am on Friday and Saturday. The name, logo and wall mural all reference the Queen of Sheba, ruler of Yemen and Ethiopia, and the beans are sourced from Yemen. The menu covers traditional milk and cardamom-spiced coffees at $5-$6, spiced signature lattes, teas, smoothies, breakfast plates and a dessert case. No alcohol is served.

Shibam Coffee is an alcohol-free Yemeni coffeehouse that opened on 21 December 2025 at 5241 N Kedzie Ave in North Park, on the Kedzie Avenue corridor where several Middle Eastern cafes have opened within a mile of each other. It is the eleventh location of a chain that started in Dearborn, Michigan in 2022 and has since expanded through Ohio, Texas and now Chicago, and it imports its coffee beans and tea directly from Yemen. The menu is unusually deep on the traditional side for a US cafe, listing Adeni tea, mufawar, sana'ani, jubani, rad'ai and qishr alongside Saudi and Turkish coffee, an espresso list, non-caffeinated refreshers and a pastry case of sabaya, honeycomb and basbousa. There is no alcohol on the menu at all.

Arwa Yemeni Coffee is an alcohol-free Yemeni coffeehouse on Milwaukee Avenue in Bucktown, the Chicago city location of a chain that began in Richardson, Texas as the first Yemeni coffee shop in that state and has since opened in Illinois, Massachusetts, Connecticut and California. The menu is split into traditional Yemeni drinks, iced refreshers, house signatures and espresso classics: jubani, qishr, mofawer, adeni tea and sana'ani coffee sit alongside a Yemeni latte, a date matcha latte and the Sand Dune latte. Arwa's rooms are designed for sitting and staying, several of them built around jelsa rooms for traditional floor seating. It keeps late hours by cafe standards, running to 10pm most nights and to midnight on Friday and Saturday. No alcohol is served.

Bokeh is a cosy neighbourhood cocktail bar in Albany Park, two blocks north of the Kedzie Brown Line stop, opened in 2019 by a hospitality veteran and former professional photographer who built the room around a photography theme — bokeh being the name for the soft out-of-focus light behind a subject. It was nominated for Neighbourhood Bar of the Year in the Chicago Tribune's 2025 Readers' Choice food awards. Its menu carries a printed "Alcohol-Free Cocktails" section of four drinks at $11, all built from house syrups, jams and fresh juice rather than bought-in zero-proof spirits: Watermelon Man (watermelon juice, mint syrup, lemon), Shinjuku Sweetheart (yuzu, soursop, honey), Echo Mist (chicory syrup, mulberry jam, soda, lemon), and Hi-Potion (lime, lemon, salt, mint), a like-for-like alcohol-free build of the bar's own gin-and-vodka cocktail of the same name. A Deschutes Kernza non-alcoholic lager is $7, and food runs vegetarian-leaning snacks and paninis. The list rotates seasonally.

Kumiko is a Japanese dining bar in Chicago's West Loop, opened in 2018 by bartender and restaurateur Julia Momosé, who also leads it as creative director and beverage visionary. Named for the Japanese kumiko woodworking technique reflected in its design, the venue treats food and drink with equal reverence. Its alcohol-free program is a genuine cornerstone: Momosé created a line of zero-proof drinks she calls "Spiritfrees," built from ingredients like shiso-pickled umé, sanshō, yarrow flower, sweet osmanthus, and Japanese seven spice rather than NA spirit brands. Spiritfree is offered both à la carte and as one of four formal tasting-menu pairings, alongside light cocktails, stirred cocktails, and sake. Kumiko won the 2025 James Beard Award for Outstanding Bar and was named World's Best Bar at the 2025 Spirited Awards, and it ranked among North America's 50 Best Bars. Reservations recommended; guests 18 and older.

The Aviary is the avant-garde cocktail bar of The Alinea Group — the Chicago restaurant empire of Michelin-starred chef Grant Achatz and partner Nick Kokonas — opened in 2011 in the Fulton Market District of the West Loop. It treats drinks with fine-dining rigor, using molecular techniques, custom glassware, and a dedicated ice chef. Critically, its non-alcoholic program is a first-class equal, not an afterthought: every experience, from multi-course cocktail progressions to the à la carte list, is available fully zero-proof, with a dedicated NA pairing menu. The kitchen's commitment runs deep enough that the Alinea Group published "ZERO: A New Approach to Non-Alcoholic Drinks," a book of nearly 100 alcohol-free recipes. Named NA pours include the 310 to Yuzu and the Fill Collins. Accolades include a James Beard Award for Outstanding Bar Program (2013) and repeated World's 50 Best Bars rankings.

A World's 50 Best Bars honoree tucked in a River North basement, Three Dots and a Dash brings the same obsessive tiki craft to its dedicated mocktail menu that it applies to its rum-forward cocktail program.

Michelin Green Star–holding pasta restaurant in Logan Square with a dedicated 'Spirit Free Treats' menu built on the same zero-waste, fermentation-forward philosophy that drives the kitchen.

Arbella is a globally inspired cocktail lounge in River North with a dedicated six-drink zero-proof menu, dim lighting, DJ sets, and small plates — a full night out that doesn't require alcohol.

Pilot Project Brewing, opened in August 2019 by co-founders Dan Abel and Jordan Radke, bills itself as the country's first dedicated brewery incubator — a Logan Square tasting room, café, and kitchen that gives startup and minority-owned breweries a launch pad for production and distribution. Its non-alcoholic credentials are unusually deep for a brewery: Pilot Project is the U.S. brewing and distribution partner for Mash Gang, the London NA-beer brand founded by Jordan Childs and James Loveday in 2020. Pilot Project brews Mash Gang's lineup stateside and pours it on tap here, including Journey Juice (a Tajín-spiked mango IPA at 0.5% ABV) and Stoop Lite (a light, chili-and-Szechuan-tinged lager). The rotating Mash Gang range also features Chug (hazy IPA), Glug (cerveza), and the seasonal Lesser Evil (chocolate-cherry stout). Local coffee and tea round out the zero-proof options.

Dearly Beloved is a self-described "cocktail restaurant" from Machine Hospitality Group, which opened in May 2024 in River North's former Kiki's Bistro space at 900 N Franklin St. The beverage program is led by mixologist and beverage director Aneka Saxon, who sourced ingredients on travels through six countries. Alongside its spirited menu, the venue maintains a permanent "Zero Proof Cocktails" section rather than a one-off list — a commitment Saxon highlights as core to the program. Named non-alcoholic builds include Clearly Cultured (with Seedlip Grove), Understory (Heywell lime adaptogen soda), Fresh Cut Grass (dandelion honey, grasshopper syrup, liquid chlorophyll, lime), and Soda Pop (orgeat, oat milk, coconut soda, orange flower and rose water). A Happy Hour zero-proof option, Zeal Without the Rest, uses the Crodino NA aperitif. In January 2025 the venue hosted Chicago's Spirit-Free Cocktail Fest, pouring eight zero-proof drinks.

The Loyalist is a chef-driven restaurant and bar at 177 N Ada Street in Chicago's West Loop, occupying the garden level beneath Smyth, its three-Michelin-starred sibling, both run by husband-and-wife chefs John Shields and Karen Urie Shields. It opened in summer 2016 and is best known for a dry-aged burger that has appeared on national best-of lists, now served as The French Smash with herb butter, cornichon, mornay and frites. Its non-alcoholic list is a full section headed "Spirit Free Cocktails", six drinks at a flat $12, each built on a real zero-proof base rather than juice: Bright & Refreshing (AMASS Riverine, chamomile, lemon, lovage, NA prosecco), Herbal & Citrus (Seedlip Garden, basil, yuzu, ginger), Juicy (Seedlip Grove, pineapple, smoked morita pepper, lime), All Barq's No Bite (St. Agrestis Amaro Falso, vanilla bean foam), Italian Spritz (Lyre's orange, NA prosecco, bubbles) and Velvety & Smooth (Lyre's Amaretti, almond orgeat, lemon, lime, egg white — note the egg white is not vegan). Dinner runs Monday to Saturday, 5–10pm, with reservations through Tock.

Bar Esmé is the à la carte bar adjoining Esmé, the one-Michelin-star Lincoln Park restaurant opened in August 2021 by chef Jenner Tomaska and his partner Katrina Bravo. Where the flagship serves a tasting menu built around rotating collaborations with artists, the bar is a smaller, more casual route into the same kitchen without committing to the full format. Drinks are led by beverage director Stevan Miller, who also oversees Esmé and the group's French brasserie Petite Edith, and whose stated approach is the reverse of the usual order: non-alcoholic cocktails, he told Third Coast Review in 2026, are something he thinks of before every other part of the menu. A current zero-proof example is Apple Island — apple with habanero and agave, force-carbonated so it lands with the bite of a hard soda. Note that the bar does not publish a working drinks list online, so the rotating menu is best read on arrival, and any zero-proof drinks named in pre-2026 coverage predate the current beverage team. Service runs Wednesday to Sunday from 5pm.

The California Clipper is Humboldt Park's longest-standing neighborhood bar, established in 1937 in a building that has stood at California and Augusta since 1912, and it carries one of the deepest non-alcoholic lists of any old-line Chicago tavern. The drink menu keeps a standing Non-Alcoholic section rather than a token substitution: two built zero-proof cocktails - the Last Call N/A with Seedlip Notas de Agave, white peach and lemon, and the Choomjito N/A - plus bottled Lyre's Prosecco, Amalfi Spritz and gin and tonic, a St Agrestis Phony Negroni, Athletic Brewing hazy IPA, Old Mil N/A lager and yerba mate. Note that the Choomjito and the Choom soda contain THC and the Chelsea B soda contains CBD; the rest of the list is free of both.

Bungalow by Middle Brow is the Logan Square brewery, bakery and pizzeria that Middle Brow Beer Co. opened after eight years of contract brewing, and it runs a properly built non-alcoholic cocktail list under an N-A heading on its drinks menu. Three house zero-proof drinks anchor it: a Middle Brow Paloma with Lyre's N/A tequila, sudachi and sparkling grapefruit; an Amaro Negroni with Seedlip 94, non-alcoholic Amaro Lucano and Lyre's Red Aperitivo; and a Dark and Stormy with Lyre's N/A dark rum, Pathfinder hemp root amaro, lime and ginger beer. A Fair State Hypercold N/A lager and Leitz Eins Zwei Zero N/A sparkling rose sit beside them. The room opens at 8am for coffee and toast and runs through naturally leavened pizza in the evening.

Estereo is the Latin-American all-day bar from Heisler Hospitality on Milwaukee Avenue in Logan Square, known for one of Chicago's most serious agave spirits lists and, alongside it, a standing Non-Alcoholic section on the same printed menu. Two of its zero-proof pours are built in-house: a tepache of pineapple, black pepper, cloves, piloncillo and Rare Tea Cellar Mallorca melon tea, and an agua fresca of Seedling Farms tart cherries and mint. Two are mixed drinks - a Rosemary Spritz with rosemary syrup, lime and Martini and Rossi Floreale, and a Three Spirits Mule with ginger syrup, pina, lime and Three Spirits Nightcap. Athletic Brewing's Atletica NA copper ale and Lagunitas hop water complete the list, and the house coffee cocktail has a stated NA version.

Andros Taverna is chef Doug Psaltis's Greek restaurant on Milwaukee Avenue in Logan Square, built around a wood fire, mezze and slow-roasted lamb, and its drinks menu carries a dedicated Zero Proof section priced at a flat $14 - the same tier as the low-ABV cocktails and only three dollars under the full-proof list. The section holds four drinks: a St Agrestis Phony Negroni, a Ghia Spritz labeled Lime and Salt, the Root and Bloom built from Seedlip Grove with tonic and lime, and an NA 75 of passionfruit and Roots non-alcoholic vermouth. A Gruvi Golden Lager is stocked at $10 for anyone who wants a beer with the grill. The program has been part of the restaurant since its early days and has grown rather than shrunk.

Gilt Bar is the River North restaurant and bar that launched Brendan Sodikoff's Hogsalt group in 2010, a dark, brass-and-leather room that describes itself as dedicated to the pleasures of drinking in restaurants and eating in bars, with a concealed speakeasy called The Library beneath it. Its cocktail menu carries a Spirit-Free heading whose drinks are priced at $14.95, within three dollars of the full-proof list. The Citrus Ritual is built on Ritual's tequila alternative with blood orange, lime, mint and club soda; the Seedlip Sour pairs Seedlip Grove 42 with cranberry; and a St. Agrestis Phony Negroni is poured from the bottle. Resy singled the program out in its guide to Chicago's non-alcoholic cocktails.

Tzuco is chef Carlos Gaytan's Mexican restaurant on State Street in River North, opened by the James Beard Award winner who was the first Latin American chef to earn a Michelin star, and its cocktail list carries a Spirit Free (Non-Alcohol) section on both the dinner and bar menus. Three drinks sit under it: Daydream, a long build of cucumber water, lime juice, chia seeds and aloe vera juice at $12; On Thyme, made with a non-alcoholic agave spirit, thyme, strawberry, lemon and soda at $15; and an NA Cosmopolitan combining a non-alcoholic agave spirit and an orange aperitif with lime juice, prickly pear syrup and cranberry juice at $15. Seedlip Notas de Agave is also poured neat by the ounce alongside the tequila and mezcal list.

Machine Cocktail Bar opened in May 2025 on West Institute Place in River North and treats every drink on its menu as a piece of stagecraft, with the zero-proof ones given exactly the same production values as the spirit-forward list. Breakfast in Bed is built on Seedlip Spice with French toast syrup, pineapple juice, lime juice and a splash of soda at $15; Judgement Free Zone combines watermelon, mango, passion fruit, habanero and lime juice at $13; and Pretty Peas - honeysuckle, sugar snap peas, lime juice and soda - arrives hanging inside a glass globe. The bar keeps late hours on Friday and Saturday, running to 2am, and Block Club Chicago made it a stop on its Dry January sober drink crawl.

Miru is the Japanese restaurant on the eleventh floor of the St. Regis Chicago in Lakeshore East, looking out over the mouth of the Chicago River toward Navy Pier and Lake Michigan, and it runs one of the deepest hotel-restaurant zero-proof lists in the city. A Spirit Free heading on the cocktail menu holds six drinks at $14-$16: Setting Sun with fresh yuzu, Valencia orange, lychee and soda; Sunny Day with lemon, passionfruit, rice cordial and ginger beer; an N/A Rita of agave, fresh lime and sea salt; a Phony Negroni Bianco; an N/Aperol Spritz built on Lyre's Italian Orange and Lyre's sparkling; and a Coffee Cloud of Metropolis cold brew, demerara and vanilla. A separate zero-proof wine list carries Prima Pave and Oddbird by the glass and bottle.

Kasama is the Filipino bakery and two-Michelin-starred tasting-menu restaurant on the corner of Winchester and Augusta in Ukrainian Village, a counter-service pastry case by day and a reservation-only dining room at night. Its non-alcoholic offering is structured, not incidental: the evening tasting menu is $325, the beverage pairing $195, and a full non-alcoholic pairing is listed at $95, so a table can be split between drinkers and non-drinkers without anyone dropping out of the format. Resy's guide to Chicago's zero-proof cocktails documented the alcohol-free drinks the kitchen has served alongside the tasting menu, including a yuzu highball, the clarified-watermelon Beekeeper and a Toddy-mansi built on genmaicha tea and calamansi juice. The restaurant also holds a 2023 James Beard Award.

Oriole is chef Noah Sandoval's two-Michelin-starred tasting-menu restaurant in the West Loop, reached through an unmarked back-alley door and a freight elevator, and it is one of the few rooms at that level in Chicago to publish a spirit-free pairing as a first-class option. The restaurant lists three pairings against its $325 tasting menu - spirit free, standard and reserve - with wine director Emily Rosenfeld curating the wine flights and bar director Maddie Balintona building the spirit-free one from creative non-alcoholic beverages made to complement the menu course by course. Cocktails in the dining room are created by Balintona; the wine list, curated by Rosenfeld, is old-world in emphasis with a focus on white wines. Service runs Tuesday to Saturday evenings only.

The Publican is the European beer-hall-inspired restaurant in Fulton Market known for its raw bar, heritage pork and house charcuterie, and its drinks list carries a named non-alcoholic section called High & Dry. Two built drinks sit under it at $12 each: What's French for "Pineapple", made with Giffard's spiritless pineapple and a house lime cordial, and Fleur de Sangre, which combines Giffard elderflower with a house lemon cordial and San Pellegrino Aranciata Rossa. A non-alcoholic hop water from Fair State Brewing Cooperative is listed at $8 within the beer list itself. Note that the bar offers an optional 5mg THC shot as a $7 add-on and stocks THC sodas separately; the High & Dry drinks are free of THC unless that add-on is requested.

Billy Sunday is an award-winning craft cocktail bar that opened in 2013 in Chicago's Logan Square, part of chef Matthias Merges' Folkart Management group. The bar is best known for one of North America's largest collections of vintage fernet and amaro — bartender Alex Bachman's deeply researched back bar earned a place in James Beard Award-winning author Brad Thomas Parsons' book on amaro. While the cocktail list is spirit-forward, the menu also carries a dedicated "Spirit Free" section. Named zero-proof options include the Lupine Lady (lavender- and thyme-infused verjus, lime, mint, basil, and sparkling water) and an Italian Cream Soda (cola reduction, stewed cherries, cream, nutmeg, and Perrier). The bar also pours a rotating Athletic Brewing non-alcoholic beer alongside house-fermented sodas (note: the house sodas contain trace amounts of alcohol).

Virtue Restaurant & Bar is chef Erick Williams's acclaimed Southern restaurant in Chicago's historic Hyde Park neighborhood, opened in November 2018 as his first solo concept. Williams was named James Beard Foundation Best Chef: Great Lakes in 2022, becoming the first Black chef to win in that category, and Virtue is listed in the MICHELIN Guide. The kitchen centers thoughtful, hospitality-driven Southern cooking, and the bar carries a dedicated "zero-proof" section for non-drinkers. Current spirit-free offerings are house-made rather than bottled brands: the Sorrel Fizz (hibiscus, rosemary, vanilla, sparkling water), The Hummingbird (basil, lemon, soda), and the Coconut Woman (coconut cream, pineapple, lime). It's a smaller but real NA list at a full-service Southern restaurant, well suited to those who want a considered alcohol-free option alongside a notable dinner.

LÝRA is a modern Greek restaurant in Chicago's Fulton Market from DineAmic Hospitality, offering wood-hearth-fired Mediterranean fare alongside a documented non-alcoholic drinks menu that includes two named zero-proof mocktails and an alcohol-removed wine list.

Nobody's Darling is a Black- and queer-owned cocktail bar in Andersonville, opened in late May 2021 by Renauda Riddle and Angela Barnes, who met volunteering at the Center on Halsted. Named after the Alice Walker poem "Be Nobody's Darling," it is one of the few nightlife spaces in Chicago centered on queer women and the city's second Black-owned LGBTQ bar alongside Jeffery Pub. It was a 2022 James Beard Award finalist for Outstanding Bar Program and is featured on The World's 50 Best Discovery list. Beyond its cocktails inspired by iconic women of color, the bar runs a serious zero-proof program: a dedicated "Lower and No Alcohol" menu section with roughly ten seasonal non-alcoholic drinks built on spirits like DHŌS spiritless gin and aperitivo. Co-owner Renauda Riddle has said the team plays with its non-alcoholic beverages as much as its alcoholic ones.

Cantina Rosa is an agave-focused cocktail bar in Hyde Park, opened in November 2024 by chef Erick Williams of Virtue Hospitality, who named it after his grandmother Rosetta. It sits at 5230 S Harper Ave, steps from Williams' other Hyde Park spots, Virtue and Daisy's Po-Boy & Tavern, and was developed with longtime collaborator Jesus Garcia, with the tiki-leaning cocktail menu consulted on by veteran Chicago bartender Paul McGee. Tequila and mezcal anchor the drink list, but the bar runs a genuine "Spirit Free" section that gets the same fresh-juice, house-syrup and garnish treatment as the alcoholic menu. Named zero-proof options include the Verdita (pineapple, lime, mint, jalapeño) and the Horchata Fizz (coconut water, in-house almond orgeat, cinnamon, ginger beer), plus a spirit-free Margarita and non-alcoholic Corona. The room, designed by Erin Boone with nods to architect Luis Barragán, features pink accents, terracotta tiles and mesquite woodwork.

FOLK Coffee & Vintage is an alcohol-free cafe built into the front of a vintage and antique store on Clark Street in Andersonville. Owners Ryan Smith and Safiyah Uddin opened the shop in November 2023 and added the coffee counter in late March 2026, deliberately setting it apart from the half-dozen other cafes on the same stretch: there is no espresso machine at all. Drinks are brewed in a cezve, the Turkish-style long-handled pot, heated on a hot plate and strained to order. The short list covers Yemeni cardamom coffee steeped in milk or water, the Kurdish pistachio coffee menengic, a cinnamon-and-brown-sugar cafe de olla, iced Adeni tea, cold brew and pour-over made with Ceramic Coffee Roasters beans. Seating is a handful of barstools, by design.

HaiSous is the Vietnamese restaurant chef Thai Dang and co-owner Danielle Dang opened in Pilsen, a room built around charcoal-grilled skewers, caramelized fish-sauce wings and family-style tasting menus. Its beverage list keeps a named Alcohol-Free Spritz at $10 in four rotating flavors - blood orange and citrus, prickly pear and mint, blueberry Thai basil, and mango lime - alongside a non-alcoholic section stocking Fever Tree ginger beer and the usual soft pours. It is a modest program rather than a full zero-proof cocktail list, but it is named, priced and permanent rather than improvised. Be aware that the same non-alcoholic section carries two Marz Community Brewing products that contain cannabinoids: a 10mg THC Kush Party and a cherry basil CBD.

Pleasant House Pub is the Pilsen all-day pub built around British royal pies - steak and ale, kale and mushroom, chicken balti - in the former Nightwood space on South Halsted Street, open from 10am for coffee and pastry and switching to full-service dinner in the evening. Its drinks list carries a clearly marked NA block with four options: an NA Aperitif Spritz built from a Giffard non-alcoholic aperitif with soda, tonic water and an orange twist at $9; a Proxies Bubbly Red wine alternative with blackberry, raspberry and black tea notes at $11; a Saint Viviana sparkling chardonnay at $13; and a Cann blood orange cardamom at $12, which contains 2mg THC and 4mg CBD per 8oz can and should be avoided by anyone steering clear of cannabinoids.

Osito's Tap is a speakeasy-inspired bar in the heart of Little Village, entered through Moreno's Liquors, the Moreno family's three-generation shop on South Ridgeway Avenue, and run by Mike Moreno Jr. The bar brings a modern Latinx sensibility to a room that draws on the neighborhood's early-1900s Bohemian tavern history, and its program is built around education in tequila and mezcal. Choose Chicago, the city's official tourism body, lists it among the Chicago bars with the best mocktails, describing a non-alcoholic list that leans on classic Mexican flavors and ingredients; Block Club Chicago has separately documented zero-proof drinks made with carrot juice, grapefruit juice, apricot cinnamon syrup and ginger beer. The kitchen serves botanas and entrees until late.