Non-Alcoholic Old Fashioned

ZERO Cocktail Bar bills itself as Canada's first non-alcoholic cocktail bar, pairing a full bar with an in-house bottle shop on Carlton Street in Toronto's Cabbagetown. The menu runs to fourteen named zero-proof cocktails - from a Power Serve of alternative whiskey and ginger beer to a Sorrel Negroni of hibiscus and spiced sorrel - built on NA brands including Free Spirits, Ghia, DR ZERO and Noughty. A retail bottle shop stocks NA wines, beers and alternative spirits alongside a café menu of hot and cold coffee drinks and pub food like loaded fries and grilled cheese.

Free Spirit is a fully alcohol-free cocktail bar and restaurant operated by Riverdale Hub, a not-for-profit social enterprise inside a converted century-old building in Toronto's Leslieville / Gerrard India Bazaar neighbourhood. It opened April 23, 2024 and runs on a no-tipping, living-wage model, with restaurant proceeds going toward addressing barriers for equity-deserving groups in the community. The ten-drink zero-proof menu spans a Bloody Caesar, a Cosmo built on Seedlip Garden 108, and an Espresso Martini made with Seedlip Spice 94, backed by a zero-proof beer list that includes Guinness 0.0 and Heineken 0.0.

Binge Bar is Washington DC's first 100% alcohol-free bar, in a lower-level space at 506 H Street NE in the Atlas District. Filipina entrepreneur Vergie "Gigi" Arandid founded the concept in June 2020 and opened to the public on 11 February 2023. It works as three things at once: a zero-proof cocktail bar, a Filipino bistro serving traditional bites alongside plant-based Mediterranean plates, and an events room. The drinks are built rather than poured - a Cucumber Mangorita, an Espresso Old Fashioned on Bare Zero Proof bourbon, a Passion Fruit Ginger Sour, a Hibiscus Reposado Margarita - alongside craft NA beer, vegan wines and canned mocktails. It won Best Craft Mocktail in Washington City Paper's 2024 Best of DC reader poll, and runs monthly sober comedy nights and vegan brunches. Nothing alcoholic is served.

Nightshade is a nightlife venue at 32 Banks Ave #105 in Asheville's South Slope, open Thursday to Saturday evenings, with DJs, live shows and a BASSBOSS sound system, partnered with Plant Bar for plant-based food. It serves genuine zero-proof cocktails — a Matcha Blossom ($12) with matcha, pineapple, sakura and Roots Divino, a Lemon Pop Drop ($11), a Butterfly Gin & Tonic ($12), a zero-proof Old Fashioned ($11) and a Spring No-Jito ($9) — plus a Mertails line crafted by The Nohm. READ THIS BEFORE VISITING: Nightshade markets itself as "entirely alcohol-free", and that is true of alcohol only. It also runs a menu section headed "Catch a Buzz" of cannabinoid drinks on draft at $7, dosed from CBD-only up to Cosmic at 15mg THC ("potent"), Yerba Mate at 25mg THC, and Elevation at 50mg THC ("very potent"), with $3 add-on shots including HHC, delta-9, kanna, blue lotus and kava. The only warning printed on the menu concerns caffeine and pregnancy. Anyone avoiding intoxicants should order strictly from the signature or classic cocktail sections and say so clearly.

The Polished Pigeon is San Diego's second dedicated alcohol-free bar, open in East Village since February 2026 and describing itself as a non-alcoholic temperance lounge, coffee bar and social club. Nothing on the premises contains alcohol. The drinks run to three printed sections — nine functional zero-proof builds from $13, six house specials at $15, and six spirit-free classics at $15 including an old fashioned, a manhattan and a whiskey sour built on non-alcoholic bourbon — plus non-alcoholic beer and wine and a full coffee menu from eight in the morning. It is women-owned and queer-owned, and the calendar is as much of the offer as the drinks: live music, an open-stage drag show, a women's recovery group and a Sunday afternoon social all run in the same room. Coffee and the functional list are served Tuesday and Wednesday until four; the full bar runs Thursday to Saturday until ten and Sunday until eight.

Beyond Proof is a fully alcohol-free craft cocktail bar at 597 Centre Street in Jamaica Plain, opened in April 2026 by Krista Kranyak, who converted her own long-running restaurant Ten Tables into what is widely reported as Boston's first zero-proof bar. Every drink is built at 0% ABV and the list is organised into sections headed Florals, Groundings, Rewritten Classics, Awakenings and Simple Sips, with straight $9 pours of zero-proof tequila, gin, vodka, bourbon and mezcal for guests who want something plainer. The kitchen serves a Lebanese and Mediterranean mezze menu of hummus boards, fire-roasted carrots, saffron tahdig bites, knafeh and slow-cooked pots. One drink, the Settle, is made with kava, a psychoactive root, which the bar names openly on the menu.