Non-Alcoholic Cocktail Bars in Minneapolis, MN
Craft cocktail bars and lounges in Minneapolis that take their non-alcoholic program seriously. The Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have a real, if hard-won, alcohol-free scene. Minnesota's first non-alcoholic bottle shop, Marigold, anchors South Minneapolis, and the metro's first kava lounge, Zen Room, sits in downtown St. Paul. The deepest spirit-free menus, though, live inside the Twin Cities' celebrated restaurants: chef Ann Ahmed's Khâluna and Gai Noi each run dedicated zero-proof lists (Khâluna's is famously longer than its cocktail menu), Earl Giles literally began as a non-alcoholic elixir company, and Gavin Kaysen's Demi and Spoon and Stable, North Loop's Dario, and Sean Sherman's Indigenous Indígena by Owamni all treat zero-proof seriously. Craft bars Parlour, Stargazer, and Bar + Cart round it out. Several of the best rooms sit across the river in St. Paul.
4 cocktail-style venues listed
Craft cocktail bars with NA programs
- ★★★★★?
Zen Room Kava Lounge is widely cited as Minnesota's first kava bar, a fully alcohol-free social space on West Kellogg Boulevard in downtown St. Paul. Rather than coffee or cocktails, the lounge is built around ethically sourced specialty kava — the calming Pacific-island root beverage — plus nootropic and hemp-derived botanical drinks, traditional teas, and snacks. It positions itself as a calm, mindful place to gather, read, or connect, marketing kava as "a social beverage without a next-day hangover," which makes it a genuine fit for sober and sober-curious guests. The menu blends prepared kava drinks served in traditional shells and bowls with espresso-style and tea options, plus sugar-free and dairy-free preparations and build-your-own blends. It carries a 4.9-star Yelp rating across 100-plus reviews, with praise for its sourcing, knowledgeable staff, and atmosphere.
Signature NA drinks- Mud Water
- Warm Spiced Chai
- Mai Tai (kava)
- Boula Bowl
- ★★★★★?
Bar + Cart Restaurant and Lounge opened in the former Khyber Pass Cafe space on Grand Avenue in St. Paul's Macalester-Groveland neighborhood, a partnership between longtime collaborators Ralena Young and Brian Riess. Young, an accomplished Twin Cities beverage director, anchors a serious drink program — and that extends to one of the metro's deepest zero-proof lists. The "Free Spirit" menu runs nine non-alcoholic cocktails (around $10 each), spanning smoky to sweet: house builds like White Fox (coconut water, orange blossom, banana, egg white, cherry-bark vanilla), Up In Smoke (coconut water, grapefruit, jalapeño, basil, smoked salt), No Big Deal (dill, orgeat, grapefruit, tonic), and Hibiscus Punch, alongside bottled St. Agrestis Phony Negronis. Axios Twin Cities named it the most expansive non-alcoholic list in its January 2026 Dry January roundup. The food leans elevated-comfort, from Coney Island dogs to fresh oysters.
Signature NA drinks- White Fox
- Up In Smoke
- No Big Deal
- Hibiscus Punch
- ★★★★★?
Parlour is a craft cocktail and burger bar in Minneapolis's North Loop, opened in 2013 below sister restaurant Borough by the local restaurant group Jester Concepts. Originally conceived as a waiting room for the upstairs dining room, it became a destination in its own right, known for the cult-favorite Parlour Burger and a serious classics-forward cocktail program built on fresh-squeezed juice, house-made syrups, and bitters. The bar maintains a dedicated "Non-Alcoholic Cocktails" section rather than a single token mocktail, using NA spirits alongside the same botanical and bitter techniques as its full bar. Named zero-proof builds include the NA Parlour Old Fashioned (NA bourbon, NA spiced spirit, piloncillo, bitters), a Phony Negroni, a Gin & Apricot Sour (thyme, lemon, apricot jam, egg white), and a Perfect Matcha made with an NA botanical spirit. It sits among the North Loop's marquee craft-cocktail venues.
Signature NA drinks- NA Parlour Old Fashioned
- Phony Negroni
- Gin & Apricot Sour
- Perfect Matcha
- ★★★★★?
Stargazer is an intimate, walk-in-friendly cocktail bar in Northeast Minneapolis that opened in December 2024 in the former Dangerous Man Brewing growler room. It's a collaboration between the Travail Collective owners — Bob Gerken, James Winberg, and Mike Brown — and Robb Jones of the James Beard-nominated Meteor, who serves as beverage director and describes Stargazer as "a slightly more polished Meteor." The galaxy-themed space pours roughly 50 scratch-built drinks (no batching) organized into "constellations," alongside Italian-inspired small plates. Its non-alcoholic program is a genuine, named "Spirit-Free Sector" on the menu rather than an afterthought: zero-proof builds like the Purple Phase (Three Spirit Social, pineapple, coconut, lime), Fireless Squad (Dhos Orange, Three Spirit Livener, pomegranate, lime), Negroni Stylie, and It Was All Yellow, plus house botanical ferments and a local spirit-free sparkling option. Menus are delivered via an interactive star-map QR app.
Signature NA drinks- Purple Phase
- It Was All Yellow
- Fireless Squad
- Negroni Stylie
What separates a good NA cocktail bar from the rest?
A great non-alcoholic cocktail bar isn't defined by whether it stocks Seedlip on the shelf. It's defined by whether the bartenders treat alcohol-free drinks as cocktails — built with the same logic, the same balance, the same care for mouthfeel and presentation as the alcoholic side of the menu.
The signal: a printed NA section on the menu with named drinks, an NA-spirits row on the back bar (Lyre's, Seedlip, Wilderton, Ritual, sometimes Monday Zero Alcohol Gin or Wilderton Lustre), house-made shrubs and bitters available for NA builds, and staff who can talk through what's in a drink without defaulting to "we can do something with juice."
The opposite: a generic "mocktail" line item priced at $8 with no description, or worse, a Shirley Temple by default. We rank cocktail-style venues here by NA Program Strength and lead with the venues that have published named NA drinks on their menu.
Frequently asked about NA cocktail bars in Minneapolis
4 cocktail-style bars in Minneapolis run non-alcoholic programs we've verified. Top picks include Zen Room Kava Lounge, Bar + Cart, Parlour.