Best Non-Alcoholic Bars in Los Angeles, CA

COMPLETE MENU CHANGE — WE HAVE REPLACED THIS LISTING'S DRINKS. Big Bar is the cocktail bar attached to Alcove Cafe at 1929 Hillhurst Avenue in Los Feliz, housed with the cafe in two historic bungalows with one of the larger patios on the east side. It opened on 8 October 2010 from Tom Trellis, who had opened Alcove itself in 2004. The cocktail programme has since been rebuilt entirely around a board-game theme, and none of the drinks we previously listed — Supernova, Tropic Thunder, The Apothecary, Pocket Full of Horses — remain. The current non-alcoholic section is headed "fun & games non-alcoholic cocktails", four drinks at $14, each named for a game: Can Chevy Come Over? (Red Rover) with Plaid Circus kimono dragon, dandelion, lime and corn silk kefir; Sister Sister (Twister) with Plaid Circus vespa rossa, Optimist Cali amaro, dogwood lemon oleo, celery and blueberry; Billie's Holiday (Cat's Cradle) with Seedlip Garden, catnip cream and vanilla bean; and Something Wicked (Ouija) with Pathfinder, sour Fuji apple, green almond orgeat and lemon. Non-alcoholic Best Day IPA and Fremont Dark are $8 each. Open from 8 or 9am daily.

Kato is a two-Michelin-starred Taiwanese-American tasting-menu restaurant at Row DTLA, promoted from one star to two in the 2026 guide, from chef and co-owner Jonathan Yao — who won the James Beard Award for Best Chef: California in 2025. It opened in a Sawtelle strip mall in 2016 and moved to its current 4,000-square-foot Arts District room in February 2022. The main dining room tasting menu is $325 and an abbreviated bar tasting is $185. Its non-alcoholic offering is one of the most ambitious in America: a dedicated Alcohol-Free Flight at $120, described as a progression of alcohol-free beverages created by the bar team, and priced as a genuine peer to the $145 traditional wine flight rather than a discount alternative. Bar director Austin Hennelly, who built it, believes it is the largest alcohol-free wine, beer and ready-to-drink list of any bar in the country. Documented drinks include the Garden Tonic — bitter melon and Korean cucumber, clarified and force-carbonated with white tea — and an amazake swizzle. Guests must be 21 or over to sit at the bar.

Melrose Umbrella Co. is a post-Prohibition-themed craft cocktail bar at 7465 Melrose Avenue in the Fairfax District, open since 2013 from owners Zach Patterson and Austin Melrose. The room is built from salvage: an 1890s fireplace facing an arched ceiling covered in New York City subway tile, and a massive 1920s wooden apothecary cabinet shipped from the East Coast and retrofitted as the back bar, with a string-lit heated patio behind. Its non-alcoholic offering is a genuine nine-item menu across two printed sections. Under "Non-Alcoholic Cocktails" sit five at $15: Not Even Smashed (Ritual zero-proof whiskey, blackberry, mint, lemon, elderflower tonic), the Pa-No-Ma (Ritual zero-proof tequila, prickly pear, green apple, ruby red grapefruit), the Keto Pepino (Ritual zero-proof gin, cucumber, lime, monkfruit, celery salt), The Valet (Pathfinder, Pentire Coastal Spritz, Seedlip Garden 108, orange), and a canned Piña Margarita or Negroni. Under "Non-Alcoholic Beers, Bubbles & Beyond" sit four cans at $7, including Athletic's Run Wild IPA and Deschutes' organic Kernza Golden. Open from noon, closed Mondays; reservations via Resy.

Belles Beach House is a retro tiki restaurant and bar at 24 Windward Avenue, just off the Venice Boardwalk, opened in late 2021 by restaurateur Nick Mathers of the Wish You Were Here Group, who describes it as Hawaiian izakaya meets tiki bar. Eater named it one of the fifteen most beautiful restaurants in Los Angeles: it took over the former Larry's, with teak sliding doors and no enclosed walls on three sides, so the whole place feels like an open-air patio. Art is by the Venice artist Larry Bell. Its zero-proof section is one of the larger ones on the Westside — CORRECTION: nine items, not eight, spanning $7 to $14 rather than mostly $11. The three fruit-and-herb spritzes are $11 each (Watermelon Mint, Apple Ginger, Thai Basil Cucumber), the Palm Reader is $14, the Red Wing Spritz $14, fresh guava lemonade $9, pure coconut water $9, and an iced mango sencha green tea $7. NOTE: the Palm Reader contains Aplós Ease, which carries 100mg of lion's mane extract per serving — a non-psychoactive nootropic, but worth knowing. Open from noon, to 2am on Friday and Saturday, with DJs at weekends.

Death & Co Los Angeles is the first West Coast location of the cocktail brand founded in New York's East Village on New Year's Eve 2006, and it opened in the Arts District of downtown Los Angeles at the end of 2019 from the Death & Co team of David Kaplan, Alex Day and Devon Tarby with Ravi DeRossi — the same group behind the Normandie Club, Bibo Ergo Sum and the Walker Inn. The main room runs a seasonal menu organised into six sections, from the lightest and most refreshing through the most spirituous, with zero-proof drinks treated as one of those sections rather than an appendix; a separate walk-up Standing Room bar operates Thursday to Saturday. The zero-proof list currently holds three built cocktails at $16–$18 on genuine non-alcoholic spirits including Seedlip, Ritual, Giffard and Wilderton, backed by non-alcoholic wine and beer from NON, Lyre's, Athletic and Suntory.

Bar Benjamin is a second-floor craft cocktail bar that opened in May 2025 above The Benjamin Hollywood on Melrose Avenue, from The Hundreds co-founder Ben Shenassafar with partners Jared Meisler and Kate Burr. The cocktail program — developed by Jason Lee (n/soto, Baroo) and beverage director Chad Austin — is known for elaborate, food-driven drinks, and the non-alcoholic list is a genuine priority rather than an afterthought: Austin, who is five years sober, builds the zero-proof cocktails with the same rigor as the full menu. Named NA drinks on the current menu include the Smiley Face (a mango-margarita riff with yellow bell pepper syrup, fermented mango, acid-adjusted pineapple, Wilderton Citrus Bitter, and Optimist Smoky), plus Aura Farm, Bangkok Dangerous, and Tepache Bird. The room is intimate and reservation-friendly, with walk-in bar seating.

Felix Trattoria is chef Evan Funke's acclaimed regional-Italian restaurant on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice, opened in 2017 with restaurateur Janet Zuccarini. Known for handmade pasta produced daily in a glass-enclosed "pasta laboratorio," Felix is a Michelin Guide restaurant and a fixture of LA's dining scene. Its bar runs a genuine named non-alcoholic cocktail program built around imported and craft zero-proof bases — England's Pentire botanical aperitivo and Seattle's Pathfinder hemp-and-botanical amaro — plus house-made ginger beer. Lead bartender Henry Terhune frames the list around Italian aperitivo culture: drinks meant "to pique your appetite" before a carb-rich meal. Named zero-proof options include the Monte Rosa, Mare Nostrum, Zenzero, and the Coca-Felix, a Chinotto-style "bitter Coca-Cola" riff — composed, restaurant-quality options rather than an afterthought.

The Rendition Room is a 1930s-style speakeasy hidden in the basement of Vitello's, the Italian restaurant that has served Studio City's stretch of Tujunga Avenue since 1964, entered through a door disguised as a bookshelf. The intimate, low-lit room leans hard into Prohibition-era Hollywood atmosphere, and the dress code is enforced rather than suggested: business casual or cocktail attire, with jeans, ball caps, shorts, T-shirts, sandals and athletic wear refused at any time. Its non-alcoholic list is headed "Spirits Away" and runs six drinks at a flat $12, all built on fresh juices and scratch sours rather than bought-in zero-proof spirits: Nectar of the Gods (watermelon, cucumber, scratch sour, lemon, seltzer), Eve on Earth (white cranberry, grapefruit seltzer, scratch sour), Pearadisio (scratch sour, pear, seltzer), Cloud 9 (pineapple, lemon, coconut, mango), Fauxjito (lime, mint, seltzer) and Spa Water (cucumber, mint, lime seltzer). Per Resy, the bar recently extended its NA offerings upstairs to its Rat Pack-themed lounge, The Velvet Martini, citing demand from younger guests. Vitello's Italian food can be ordered in the speakeasy, which is cashless.

Nativo is a modern Mexican cantina on York Boulevard in Highland Park, owned by Gabriel Paredes and Corrissa Hernandez, who also run Xelas in Boyle Heights. It is a licensed bar built around agave, rum and cerveza artesanal, and it carries one of the deepest standing zero-proof lists in Los Angeles: a titled Zero Proof Cocktails section with six named builds, all made with zero percent alcohol. The list runs a Margarita Mocktail on Ritual Zero tequila with orange cordial, lime, agave and housemade Tajin salt; a Zero Proof Pina Colada; a Paloma Mocktail; a Zero Proof Mojito; a Zero Proof Whiskey Sour with egg whites; and a Zero Proof Penicillin finished with a smoky botanical mist spray. Open to 2am on Friday and Saturday.

neat. is a whiskey and cocktail bar on Pico Boulevard in West Los Angeles, known for a deep rare-spirits list and guided whiskey tastings, and it keeps a standing non-alcoholic section on the same printed drink menu. That section runs five items: Wishful Sinful, built on Pathfinder non-alcoholic spirit with yuzu, lemon and ginger; Eyes Wide Shut, an espresso build with cucumber tonic and orange; Alter Ego, with elderflower, cucumber, mint and lemon; a non-alcoholic Negroni; and Weihenstephaner's alcohol-free lager. Prices run $8 to $12, in line with the rest of the room rather than marked down. The bar is open until 2am Thursday through Saturday, with happy hour every day from 5 to 7pm.

Bar Franca is a Euro-style cocktail and sound bar on South Main Street in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles, open only Thursday to Saturday from 9pm to 2am. It is licensed, and its drink menu carries a titled Zero Proof and Low ABV section: Bonfire Water, made with fresh-pressed watermelon, hibiscus and Lyre's Italian Spritz; Espresso Esplatore, built on Pathfinder Hemp and Root with espresso, tonic and citrus; and Palomanada, with grapefruit, citrus, agave, soda and salt. Estrella Galicia Zero Proof is stocked in cans alongside two low-alcohol Stiegl radlers. The room has tall ceilings, floral wallpaper, a long bar and semi-separate lounge seating, and the music programming is the point as much as the drinks.

Broken Shaker is the rooftop bar on top of the Freehand Hotel in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles, a James Beard Award finalist and winner of Tales of the Cocktail's Best American Hotel Bar. It is licensed, and its LA drink menu carries a dedicated Beer, Wine and Spirit Free tab plus a titled Mocktails section priced at $14: the Verbena Spritz with tangerine, lemongrass, lime leaf and lemon; Violet Thems, marked non-alcoholic and built on Ritual tequila alternative with lavender butterfly-pea orgeat, vanilla and spritz; and Call Me Mother, on Ritual gin alternative with guava, rose water, house-made lemonade and quinine. The rooftop has a pool, palms and sunset views over Downtown, with DJ sets on Friday and Saturday nights.

Gracias Madre is a vegan Mexican restaurant at 8905 Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood, opened in January 2014 in a former antique emporium — whitewashed brick, high ceilings with exposed beams, and a patio under mature olive trees with built-in heaters. CORRECTION: we previously described a spirit-free section called "On the Wagon" and a Michelada Sin Cerveza. Neither appears on the current menu. The section is now headed "zero/low proof" and holds four drinks at $16.50: the Rosemary Love (ginger and rosemary elixir, poured tableside) and Como No (Ritual apéritif, lemon, pineapple, jalapeño, guajillo, agave, foam), both printed 0 ABV; plus the Raspberry Orchard Shrub and No Sabo, both built on Green Apple NOOT. NOTE ON THOSE TWO: the menu defines NOOT as a functional blend of botanicals, herbs and nootropics containing under 1% alcohol, which cannot be served to anyone under 21 — so they are low-proof and age-restricted, not alcohol-free. Separately, eight standard cocktails can be made non-alcoholic with Cut Above NA tequila or mezcal at no extra charge. Aguas frescas and horchata are $6.50, seasonal kefir soda $8.50, and a rotating NA lager $10.50.

Botanica is a seasonal Southern California restaurant and natural-wine market at 1620 Silver Lake Boulevard, opened in May 2017 by former food writers Emily Fiffer and Heather Sperling as a home for what they call nourishing hospitality, with a focus on regenerative agriculture, sustainable seafood and responsible animal husbandry. UPDATE TO OUR EARLIER LISTING: we previously had no drinks on file and rated the non-alcoholic offering as minimal. It now runs a genuine printed "Zero Proof" section on both the dinner and brunch menus, seven or more deep, so we have raised the rating. At dinner: a blueberry yuzu shrub ($10), a cucumber, lemon and ginger spritzer ($12), a yuzu spritzer ($10), a Ghia spritzer ($15), Lovely Bunch apple juice ($8), Strange Water sparkling coconut water ($8) and Fermensch kombucha ($9). Brunch adds a sunrise juice of orange, grapefruit, lime, lemon, yuzu and ginger ($8) and a "little tomato", the house non-alcoholic bloody mary ($10). Beverage director Pierluc Dallaire also runs a low-intervention wine programme. Open Wednesday to Sunday, 9am to 10pm.

Apothéke LA is the West Coast outpost of New York's apothecary-themed Apothéke, at 1746 North Spring Street in Chinatown, opened in 2018 by founder Christopher Tierney after a two-year search for the right Los Angeles site. The room is a Biedermeier-revival fantasy — sconces made from scientific boiling flasks holding glowing herbal tinctures, ornate wooden furniture, velvet cushions and curtains, tufted wallpaper, and a glowing 40-inch marble bar at the centre. CORRECTION: we previously listed The Healer and The Baron's Cure as its non-alcoholic drinks. Neither is on the current zero-proof menu, and The Baron's Cure now appears on the regular list as a fully alcoholic cocktail built on milk-washed bourbon, cognac and overproof rum. What exists instead is a printed "Free-Spirited List" of eight drinks, made from house-made ingredients using organic produce, herbs and botanicals: four tea-based Elixirs built on ashwagandha, schisandra, dandelion root and milk thistle, and four Tonics on named non-alcoholic gin, tequila, vermouth and Pentire. No prices are printed. Open Thursday to Sunday evenings; sophisticated attire encouraged.

Dayglow is a multi-roaster specialty coffee bar at 3206 West Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake, opened in late 2017 by Tohm Ifergan, formerly of Portola Coffee Roasters. Time Out gave it five stars in 2025, describing it as part neighbourhood hangout and part subscription service, a haven for serious coffee drinkers and dabblers alike — and noting that the standout part of the menu is its house signature drinks, which take a craft-cocktail approach to dispensing caffeine. The multi-roaster claim is real and unusually deep: its retail shelf carries well over a hundred beans from roasters including Tim Wendelboe, Coffee Collective, La Cabra, Prolog, Friedhats, Dak, Nomad, Monogram and Morgon alongside its own house roasts. Its signature drinks include the Military Latte, the Warhol, the Totoro and a strawberry matcha. PLEASE NOTE: Dayglow publishes its bean shop online but not its café drinks menu, and the third-party listings that appear to carry it are stale or fabricated — so we cannot give current prices or ingredients for the signature drinks. Seating is limited and there are few outlets, so it is not a laptop café. Open daily 7am to 7pm. Ours is the Silver Lake location; there are five others.

Thunderbolt is a neighborhood cocktail bar opened in 2019–2020 by Atlanta-born owner-bartender Mike Capoferri, at the meeting point of Historic Filipinotown, Echo Park, and Downtown LA. The concept is Deep South-inspired — Southern-rooted flavors, a Southern food menu, an extensive Madeira selection — paired with high-tech techniques like centrifuge clarification. It ranked No. 24 on North America's 50 Best Bars 2025 and won that program's Ketel One Sustainable Bar Award for waste reduction and ethical sourcing. The bar runs a small but genuine named non-alcoholic program: zero-proof options include the Pride of Oxnard, School Night, the Lychee Daiquiri, and the Thumper (which incorporates a rare NA milk-punch), and the staff will build custom alcohol-free drinks on request. The room is casual and bright, with an open patio and a pink-and-green palette.

Zero Lounge is a Y2K-themed bar off Hollywood Boulevard, open Wednesday to Sunday from 7pm and running to 2am at weekends. It is licensed, and its menu carries a titled Mocktails section alongside the cocktails: Tamagotchi Tea, made with green tea, hibiscus syrup, lemon and agave; the Saved By the Bell-ini, built on Ritual non-alcoholic gin with peach puree, agave and soda water; and Slime Time, with lime juice, agave, cucumber, mint and ginger. The room is decorated with Furbies and neon, the DJ booth is built to look like a teenager's bedroom, and the programming runs to trivia, karaoke and DJ sets. Happy hour runs 7pm to 10pm daily. The Infatuation reviewed it in 2025.

Steep LA is a Chinese and Taiwanese teahouse in Mandarin Plaza in Chinatown, serving premium leaf handpicked from China and Taiwan across five of the six major Chinese tea categories - black, green, oolong, white and pu-er. Teas are sold by the pot with published fragrance and taste profiles: Yingde black at $15, Lapsang Souchong at $18, Longjing green at $18, Gailan Houkui at $24, Snow Mountain oolong at $18, Oriental Beauty at $21 and Wild Baimudan white at $21, with freshly brewed cups from $6. Food is Chinese and Taiwanese comfort cooking, and a retail section carries work by sustainability-focused local makers. Note that the room is licensed in the evening: from 4pm it runs as Steep After Dark, a tea-cocktail bar, so the alcohol-free offer here is the tea programme rather than the whole venue.

The Semi-Tropic is a neighbourhood bar and all-day cafe on Glendale Boulevard in Echo Park, open since 2015 and named after the Semi-Tropic Spiritualists Association, an early-1900s utopian collective based in the hills at the north end of the neighbourhood. It is licensed, and its drink menu carries a titled Non-Alcoholic section with three shaken builds: Plantasia at $13, made with Amass Riverine, cucumber, cilantro, lime and yuzu soda; Pineapples in Stereo at $13, with Martini and Rossi Floreale aperitivo, pineapple, sugar snap pea and lime; and Garden Lemonade at $8, with fresh lemonade, lavender, chamomile, soda and butterfly pea extract. A wellness shot of ginger, honey, lemon, turmeric and black pepper is $7. The room is large and couch-filled, with an outdoor area and fire pits.

Mitsi is a cocktail bar and sushi counter on Naud Street, in the pocket between Chinatown and Mission Junction, opened in April 2026 by Ben Lovett of Mumford and Sons through his hospitality company TVG and sitting next door to the Pacific Electric concert venue. It seats about 110 across indoor and outdoor space, with a working sushi counter built into one end of a long bar, and a food menu by chef Jon Kim. It is licensed, and the drink menu carries a named Spirit Free section: the Phony Negroni from St. Agrestis in New York, a Longan Osmanthus Flower sparkling tea from S.C Lab in Taiwan, and a Tieguanyin Apple sparkling tea from the same producer. Open Thursday to Saturday only, 6pm to 1am, with the kitchen running to 11pm.

Buena Vida Tea Bar and Garden is a fully alcohol-free loose-leaf tea bar on Montana Avenue in Santa Monica, founded by Mayra Vazquez, who styles herself and her staff Tearistas. It serves organic loose-leaf teas brewed to order, including on a teapresso machine, alongside sweet and savoury treats, and it has an outdoor tea garden terrace. Named pours include Dragonwell Longjing, China's best-known green; Jasmine Silver Needle, aromatic with floral and citrus notes; Persian Delight, a blend of premium black tea and rose petals; and Rosa de Jamaica, a hibiscus iced tea. The shop also sells teaware, runs a tea club and makes TEArrariums and plant arrangements. Reservations are recommended, and it is closed Mondays. No alcohol is served.

IMPORTANT CORRECTION — WE HAVE REMOVED THIS VENUE'S LISTED DRINKS. Mírate is an award-winning multi-level Oaxaca-inspired restaurant and mezcalería in Los Feliz from co-owner Matthew Egan and chef Joshua Gil, opened in late November 2022, ranked No.12 in North America's 50 Best Bars in 2025 and No.28 in 2026. We previously listed its Tepache and Nitro Pulque as non-alcoholic drinks. That was wrong. They sit in a section called "Bebidas Ancestral" — ancestral beverages — which appears between the cocktail list and the Mexican wine list as another alcoholic category, alongside Pasita, a Mexican rum-raisin liqueur. Nothing on the menu describes them as non-alcoholic or prints an ABV. Pulque is traditionally 4–7% ABV, roughly beer strength; tepache varies with ferment length. Beverage director Max Reis says he takes pride in offering them "in their authentic format" so guests can taste "the ingredient in its pure form", and the same tepache and pulque are used inside the bar's alcoholic cocktails. We found no dedicated alcohol-free section here. Ask the bar directly rather than ordering from Bebidas Ancestral expecting zero proof.