Elderflower Tonic Mimosa

Aera is a steakhouse and sushi restaurant from Toronto's Oliver & Bonacini Hospitality group, perched on the 38th floor of The Well in King West with sweeping city views. The bar runs a dedicated "Spirit-Free" section on its printed drinks menu, with four named, ingredient-listed alcohol-free cocktails served alongside the full bar list. Executive Chef Binit Pandey has described the kitchen's unhurried, technique-forward approach as built for the room's views.

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 Lucky Saint is the alcohol-free beer brand's first permanent pub, on Devonshire Street in Marylebone — a restored Victorian pub built around the alcohol-free pint rather than treating it as an afterthought. It serves a full bar of spirits, wine and cask beer as well, so this is a mixed room rather than a dry one, but the depth of the no-and-low list is the reason to come: around fifteen per cent of drinks sold here are alcohol-free. It pours the brand's own unfiltered 0.5% lager and a newer IPA alongside a rotating range of low- and no-alcohol beers, ciders and cans, Italian aperitivo bitters such as Crodino, and a short list of alcohol-free cocktails, with a full food menu. It is one of the clearest signs of London's shift: a busy, all-day pub where ordering a zero-proof pint is the unremarkable choice.

Point Easy is a chef-driven New American restaurant in Denver's Whittier neighborhood, opened on June 29, 2022 in the former Whittier Pub space at the corner of East 28th Avenue and Williams Street. The owners are Andy Bruch and brothers Dan and Dennis "Denn" Phelps, alumni of the Kitchen Restaurant Group in Boulder who had developed the concept years before the pandemic delayed it; Denn Phelps, who wrote the opening menu, died unexpectedly on July 22, 2022, weeks after the doors opened, and the team has run the restaurant in his memory since. The kitchen is now led by executive chef Reuben Tomlins, with Richard Long as general manager. The menu is seasonal and farm-driven with a house-made pasta program, and the wine list favours biodynamic and small-producer bottles. The bar keeps a headed 0% ABV section of six drinks on its own published menu, from a fermented pineapple tepache and a Colorado-made non-alcoholic crabapple cider to cocktails built on Dr Zero Zero amaro, Citadel non-alcoholic gin and Giffard elderflower non-alcoholic liqueur, and the bar's Get Fed service will build a drink to a guest's stated preferences.

Buzzy Mediterranean-coastal restaurant on the Georgetown waterfront with a full beverage book of zero-proof cocktails inspired by Lebanon, Spain and Italy.

Porzana is Daniel del Prado's Argentinian wood-fire steakhouse in the North Loop, occupying the former Bachelor Farmer space on North 1st Street. It keeps one of the deepest standing spirit-free lists in the city: six non-alcoholic drinks, five of them at $13, listed on the same cocktail menu as the full-strength ones rather than tucked away. The house builds are the Sanguino, with blood orange, white chocolate, rhubarb, elderflower, lime and sparkling tea, and the Serrata, with blackberry, hibiscus, beet, Greek yogurt and lemon. A tarragon and verde tea drink called T&T, two Copenhagen sparkling teas and a dealcoholised sparkling rose complete the section.