Best Non-Alcoholic Bars in Hilo, HI

Hilo sits on the wet, working side of Hawaiʻi Island, and its alcohol-free anchor is ʻawa rather than zero-proof cocktails. Kava Republic on Keawe Street in downtown Hilo is the fully alcohol-free room here: fresh, locally grown ʻawa and blended "kavatails" alongside coffee, wifi and room to sit, open from nine in the morning until nine or ten at night, with open mic on Thursdays and live music at weekends. That daytime-through-evening span is unusual and more useful than it sounds — it works as a café at eleven in the morning and as a bar at nine at night, which very few alcohol-free rooms manage, and it means the venue is there on the afternoons as well as the evenings. There is no non-alcoholic bottle shop in Hilo and no dedicated zero-proof cocktail bar; the rest of the town's drinking happens in ordinary restaurants and brewpubs. One thing to know before going: kava contains no alcohol but is psychoactive and mildly sedating, so this is a night out without alcohol rather than a guaranteed sober space.

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