Shirley Temple

The ground-floor coffee bar at The Durham hotel serves Counter Culture coffee from 7am and keeps an explicit "Spirit Free" section on its beverage menu — five named builds from $5 to $9, including a Lyre's-based Ruby Spritz. It also makes the Durham Coffee Soda, a house cold-brew soda with Markola coffee syrup, club soda and lemon. Open until 9pm daily, it is the metro's most useful all-day non-alcoholic room.

Planet of the Tapes is a comedy club, bar and video-store-themed hangout on Barret Avenue in Phoenix Hill, and it has the most non-drinker-friendly pricing policy in Louisville: any of its movie-inspired cocktails can be made as a mocktail for $5, a flat price well under the alcoholic version rather than the usual practice of charging cocktail money for juice. It also makes its own sodas in house — mango pineapple, raspberry pomegranate and lavender lemon — and names drinks with the same cheerful nonsense as the rest of the room, including the Shirley Temple of Doom and The Mangolorian. Shows and open mics run most nights until midnight, or 2am at weekends.

Herman's Coffee is a coffee roastery, café, and specialty market in Philadelphia's Pennsport neighborhood, opened by owner Mat Falco in 2017 inside a former auto-mechanic's shop. Beginning in 2020 — after discovering the non-alcoholic aperitif Ghia — Falco built what the Philadelphia Inquirer calls one of the region's largest zero-proof selections: over 200 non-alcoholic wines, spirits, and beers, plus 50–75 mixers and syrups and more than 100 bitters, much of it sold to take home. By day, the café pours house-made non-alcoholic creations such as the Blood Orange Espresso Tonic, Lavender Lemonade Spritz, and the "Don't Call Me Shirley Temple." On Friday and Saturday nights, Herman's After Dark switches to candlelit table service with a menu of cocktails and wines "with and without alcohol," plus light bites and rotating food pop-ups.

Urban Farmer is the steakhouse inside the Logan Hotel on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and its drinks menu carries a printed section headed "No Proof Cocktails" rather than burying the alcohol-free options among the soft drinks. The Cadillac Shirley Temple at $12 is the one worth ordering — house grenadine and verjus with lemon-lime soda and a cherry, where the verjus does the job a dry wine would. The Crimson Fizz pairs cranberry with a cranberry shrub and Fever-Tree ginger beer, and the Fauxpresso Negroni builds St. Agrestis Phony Espresso Negroni into cold brew with orange. Athletic Brewing's Upside Dawn covers the beer side. The kitchen serves from seven in the morning until half past eleven at night.

Louie's Cocktail Lounge in Rancho Cordova stocks three non-alcoholic beers — Heineken 0.0, Michelob Ultra 0.0 and Corona Cero — alongside Shirley Temples, virgin margaritas and virgin piña coladas. The drinks are unpretentious, but the hours are extraordinary: 6am to 2am, every day, twenty hours a day. For shift workers, early risers and anyone whose day does not run on a standard schedule, a room that is open and has three cold non-alcoholic beers at seven in the morning is a genuinely different kind of useful. It is in Rancho Cordova, about fifteen minutes east of downtown. Three different NA beers on one back bar also suggests real demand rather than a token gesture, since neighbourhood lounges do not carry redundant stock for appearances.