Dry January 2027 · San Diego, CA
Dry January in San Diego: Where to Drink Alcohol-Free
Doing Dry January 2027 in San Diego? You don't have to stay home. We've verified 6 fully alcohol-free venues here — no bar tab temptation at all — plus 6 more bars and restaurants pouring serious zero-proof menus, out of 20 verified spots citywide.
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Fully alcohol-free in San Diego
Dedicated sober bars and NA bottle shops — nothing alcoholic on the menu, so the whole list is fair game all month.
Atelier Manna
Encinitas (Leucadia)
Atelier Manna is a brunch-only "chef's workshop" in the Leucadia stretch of Encinitas, opened in April 2023 by husband-and-wife team Andrew and Larah Bachelier and awarded a Bib Gourmand in the 2025 Michelin Guide. Andrew Bachelier, previously of Michelin-starred Jeune et Jolie, runs the kitchen on a "food as medicine" philosophy — and the defining feature is that Atelier Manna serves no alcohol at all. Instead, its beverage list is a rotating menu of "vitality tonics," spirit-free drinks built like bar cocktails from the same produce used in the kitchen: recent pours include Zanzibar (cold brew, red ginseng, cinnamon, tulsi), Veracruz (dragonfruit, hoja santa, toasted juniper, ginger), Jasper, and Goldenrod. San Diego Magazine called it one of the most ambitious zero-proof drink rosters in the city.
Good News Bar
Hillcrest
Good News Bar is San Diego's first dedicated 100% alcohol-free bar, opened in July 2025 in Hillcrest by married former bartenders Crystal and Kaylee Clark, who left drinking behind in recovery and built a daytime-to-evening venue with an integrated non-alcoholic bottle shop. By day it serves coffee, tea, functional cocktails, and pastries; by night it pours "functional" cocktails built around adaptogens, nootropics, nervines, kava, and hemp-derived CBD (mostly 0.0% ABV) alongside "free-spirited" cocktails (under 0.5% ABV) that reimagine classics with non-alcoholic spirits, plus dealcoholized wines and NA beers. Signature zero-proof drinks include The Merry Go Round, The Woods, Deborah Downer, and Goosebumpz. It's an inclusive, sober and sober-curious space with trivia, live music, and DJ nights.
Kava Collective
University Heights
Kava Collective is a fully alcohol-free kava lounge, tea house, and café in San Diego's University Heights, formerly known as Rooted Kava Bar. It bills itself as Southern California's premier kava destination and one of the only bars in the country still making kava in the traditional South-Pacific fashion, brewing small batches with strains sourced from Fiji and serving them in shells, quads, or the half-gallon "Otter" and gallon "Whale" sharing bowls poured from a traditional tanoa. Beyond kava, the menu spans kombucha, espresso and matcha lattes, and house non-alcoholic drinks like the Fake ID (adaptogen-infused kava mocktail), Java Kava, Afterglow, and Antidote. It's open late — to 1am weekdays and 2am weekends — with live music, art shows, yoga, and bingo nights.
Moon Flower
Normal Heights
Moon Flower is a fully alcohol-free cocktail lounge that takes over Maya Moon Collective — a cacao café and organic chocolate shop on Adams Avenue in Normal Heights — Thursday through Sunday evenings. The zero-proof program is run by co-owner Grace Mestecky alongside Maya Moon founder Kathryn Rogers, who launched the collective's booze-free menu in 2023; the evening lounge format took shape in 2024. The rotating, seasonal menu leans on functional and adaptogenic ingredients, local produce, and herbs, building booze-free riffs on classic cocktails. Signature pours include Smoke and Mirrors (NA whiskey, black cardamom, orange bitters, burned honey, lapsang souchong), Spiritual Rest (Dromme, Everleaf, lemon, honey, ginger, turmeric), and Hi Barbie! (NA gin, NA bubbly, prickly pear, strawberry, yuzu, lime, kanna).
Monday Morning
Pacific Beach
Monday Morning is San Diego's first exclusively non-alcoholic bottle shop and tasting room, opened in Pacific Beach in late 2024 by founder Zane Curtis after he embraced a sober lifestyle. The shop stocks more than 500 zero-proof products — non-alcoholic beer (IPAs, lagers, stouts, sours, wheat), dealcoholized wine, spirit alternatives (gin, whiskey, tequila, rum), ready-to-drink mocktails, and functional drinks with adaptogens and nootropics — across 50-plus brands including Athletic, Bravus, Partake, Seedlip, and Ritual. A tasting bar lets customers sample anything before buying, with staff guiding selections. Curtis's business also handles NA distribution, custom recipes, staff training, and events, and in January 2026 it opened a second location in Ocean Beach.
Monday Morning
Ocean Beach
Monday Morning is a fully alcohol-free bottle shop and tasting bar in Ocean Beach, the second San Diego location from founder Zane Curtis, opened January 2, 2026 at 4967 Newport Ave inside the OB Business Center — on the one-year anniversary of the original Pacific Beach store. It stocks more than 500 zero-proof products: non-alcoholic beer, dealcoholized wine, spirit alternatives, ready-to-drink mocktails, and functional drinks across 50-plus brands including Athletic, Bravus, Partake, Seedlip, and Ritual. A tasting bar lets customers try anything before buying, and because the OB space is compact, the team opens the windows to serve the boardwalk. It's a genuine alcohol-free retail-and-tasting destination steps from the beach.
Strong non-alcoholic menus in San Diego
Regular bars and restaurants with extensive zero-proof programs — meet friends anywhere and still order something genuinely good.
Herb & Wood
Little Italy
Herb & Wood is a wood-fired Mediterranean restaurant in Little Italy, opened in April 2016 by Top Chef alum Brian Malarkey and partner Christopher Puffer (Puffer Malarkey Collective, also home to Herb & Sea). The kitchen centers on a custom wood-fired hearth turning out housemade pastas, flame-kissed proteins, and seasonal vegetables, and the bar keeps a standing "Spirit-Free" section with four named zero-proof drinks so non-drinkers get composed builds rather than soda or juice. Current options include the Lemon & Herbs (lemon, roasted lemon-thyme syrup, grenadine, soda), the Kauai Chickens (cinnamon pineapple, spiced grapefruit cordial, lime, egg white, mineral water), a non-alcoholic Sbagliato (alcohol-removed sparkling wine and aperitivo), and Malarkey in Paris (smoke tea, bergamot, spearmint, carbonated). It marked its 10th anniversary in March 2026.
Mnemonic Coffee
Bankers Hill
Mnemonic Coffee is a queer, women-owned café in Bankers Hill, opened in July 2023 by longtime specialty-coffee pros Gia Giambalvo and Sarah Girdzius and built intentionally as both a coffee and zero-proof drink space. Alongside oat-milk lattes, cold brew, and pour-overs, the team builds creative coffee sodas and mocktails for people who want the communal feel of a café without alcohol — or without downing multiple cups of caffeine. Named non-alcoholic drinks include the Maple St. (maple syrup, long pepper, cinnamon, apple foam, Topo Chico), the Soy Libre (Coke, simple syrup, soy sauce, lime, cinnamon), the cardamom-and-jasmine Ocean Eyes, and the orange-cream-soda-like Zephyr. The 1970s-inspired space keeps daytime hours, Tuesday through Sunday, with pastries from Relic Bageri.
Mothership
South Park
Mothership is a sci-fi tiki cocktail bar and fully plant-based restaurant in South Park, opened in August 2022 by the team behind the vegan restaurant Kindred. The immersive, crash-landed-spaceship interior won an Orchid Award, and while the rum-forward tiki list is the headline, the bar also runs a genuine, fully built-out zero-proof program: its menu carries a dedicated "Beverages" section where every drink is labeled zero-proof. Named alcohol-free options include the X-Ray (white cane NA spirit, lime, Szechuan peppercorn, spearmint, peppermint oil), Tracking Device (coconut water, coconut cream, lime, hibiscus), Baby Bird (Italian bitter NA spirit, blood orange, caramelized pineapple, lime, soda), and Mindchiller. Mothership ranked among Yelp's 2023 Top 25 mocktail spots in the U.S.
Polite Provisions
North Park
Polite Provisions is a craft cocktail bar that opened in 2013 from San Diego hospitality group CH Projects, set in a 1920s apothecary-style room with a long marble bar near the North Park–Normal Heights border. After a closure tied to a liquor-license suspension, it reopened in early 2025 with a reworked menu organized into five sections — including a dedicated "Sans Alcohol" list — under beverage director Alicia Perry. The zero-proof options lean into the bar's housemade-soda and soda-fountain heritage: Daisy's Soda Pop (apple spice, pomegranate, lime, soda) and Gabe's Painless Killer (passionfruit, coconut, pineapple, lime), plus brand-built drinks like a Cinnamon Cherry Cola on Pentire and a Cacao Strawberry on Feragaia, some served as ice cream floats. It carries James Beard and Tales of the Cocktail recognition.
Paradisaea
La Jolla (Bird Rock)
Paradisaea is a French-modern California restaurant in La Jolla's Bird Rock neighborhood, opened in September 2022 by husband-and-wife owners Eric and Zoe Kleinbub inside the landmark "Piano Building" on La Jolla Boulevard, and Michelin Guide recommended since 2023. Its cocktail program is presented as an illustrated "field guide" to the bird species behind the restaurant's name and includes a dedicated non-alcoholic section. Zero-proof options include The Woods (non-alcoholic distilled agave spirit, marionberry, pomegranate, orange bitters), the Ghia-based Ostrich, and a Seedlip-and-Blue-Majik Takahe, with spirit-free builds also drawing on Ritual. The bar room features lounge seating, board games, and a small retail space selling bottled and canned drinks — a polished, design-forward spot where the NA list gets the same illustration and care as the cocktails.
Lilo
Carlsbad Village
Lilo is an intimate 22-seat chef's-counter tasting-menu restaurant tucked behind Wildland in Carlsbad Village, opened in April 2025 by chef Eric Bost and restaurateur John Resnick and awarded a Michelin star within weeks of opening. The seafood-leaning, coastally driven menu runs roughly twelve courses, and Lilo treats zero-proof seriously: alongside its wine, Champagne, and hybrid pairings, it offers a full dedicated non-alcoholic beverage pairing (about $110), composed in tandem by beverage director Andrew Cordero and wine director Savannah Riedler to match each plate. Zero-proof creations like the Okinawa Spritz — built around tea tannin, saline, and citrus bitters — are designed to elevate the food rather than merely accompany it, making it one of North County's most serious non-alcoholic pairings.
Keep planning your Dry January
Hosting at home instead? These guides and winter recipes cover the rest of the month.