Non-Alcoholic Cocktail Bars in Nashville, TN
Craft cocktail bars and lounges in Nashville that take their non-alcoholic program seriously. Nashville's non-alcoholic scene has grown up fast in a town built on honky-tonks and bachelorette bar crawls. It's anchored by Killjoy — the city's first booze-free bottle shop, now with two locations in East Nashville and Berry Hill — The Mockery, a fully alcohol-free bar and NA bottle shop inside the Germantown farmers' market, and Passage Kava Lounge in Madison. The headline arrival is Redemption Bar, country star Ashley McBryde's NA-forward bar on Lower Broadway, where about 18 zero-proof cocktails are named after her lyrics. East Nashville carries the craft-cocktail depth, with dedicated zero-proof menus at Food & Wine–honored The Fox Bar & Cocktail Club, tiki spot Coral Club, and Sean Brock's Michelin-recommended Audrey, while Southern Grist Brewing pours its own house-made Oasis hop water on draft.
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Craft cocktail bars with NA programs
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Passage Kava Lounge is a fully alcohol-free, 21+ kava and botanical lounge in Madison, tucked in the EastSide Bowl plaza on Gallatin Pike S. Owned by Ryan and Warren Holding, it opened in 2024 and bills itself as the only Nashville-area bar dealing in zero alcohol. The Victorian-inspired room pours traditional kava (including a communal Bula ceremony), botanical teas, coffee, kratom, kombucha, and mocktails, with house kava drinks like Royal Cinnamon, Velvet Shortcake, and Berry Chocolate. Owner Ryan Holding describes it as "a mix of a coffee shop and bar, but without the bar fights," emphasizing connection over intoxication. The lounge programs nightly events: live music on Mondays and Tuesdays, trivia Wednesdays, and karaoke Thursdays. In its first months open, it placed second for Best New Business in the Nashville Scene's Best of Nashville 2024 awards.
Signature NA drinks- Royal Cinnamon
- Velvet Shortcake
- Berry Chocolate
- Odyssey Passion Fruit Orange Guava Mushroom Elixir
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Redemption Bar is country artist Ashley McBryde's NA-forward bar, opened in August 2025 on the fifth floor of Eric Church's Chief's on Lower Broadway in downtown Nashville. Inspired by McBryde's own path to sobriety (she is nearly four years sober), the bar centers an 18-drink zero-proof cocktail menu "composed like a setlist," with each drink named after lyrics that carried her forward — including Flickerin' Flames of Hell, Martini McBryde, Gospel Night, and The Devil I Know. The bar takes its name from McBryde's song "Redemption." Alcohol is also served, since "everyone is welcome." Beyond the drinks, the space features an intimate troubadour-style stage built for solo or duo singer-songwriter sets. Billed by the venue as "Broadway's first NA-focused bar," it offers a sober-friendly alternative on a famously alcohol-soaked strip, with a full food menu alongside the zero-proof and alcoholic lists.
Signature NA drinks- Flickerin' Flames of Hell
- Martini McBryde
- Gospel Night
- The Devil I Know
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The Fox Bar & Cocktail Club is a roughly 40-seat craft cocktail bar in East Nashville's Inglewood stretch, tucked behind Nicoletto's Italian Kitchen on Gallatin Pike. Opened in September 2017 by Bryan Rushton and Andrew Cook, it earned national attention when Food & Wine named it one of the 10 Best Bars in the U.S. From the start, head bartender Laura Unterberg built a serious non-alcoholic program, making The Fox one of the first Nashville bars to commit fully to zero-proof drinks rather than treating them as an afterthought. The bar keeps a standalone non-alcoholic menu of six named cocktails built on spirits like Seedlip, Three Spirit, The Pathfinder, Roots Divino and Stappi, alongside house-made shrubs and syrups. Signature alcohol-free pours include the Snow Monkey N/A Margarita, Dr. Fox, Careful Whisper, The Count, Cool In Nippon and Bird of Paradise.
Signature NA drinks- Snow Monkey N/A Margarita
- Dr. Fox
- Careful Whisper
- Bird of Paradise
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Coral Club is a coastal- and tiki-inspired cocktail bar above a strip mall on Gallatin Avenue in East Nashville, opened in May 2024. It was founded by four hospitality veterans: brothers Aaron and Matthew Izaguirre (from the Florida Keys) and partners Brice Hoffman and Kristopher Esqueda, whose résumés include The Patterson House, The Catbird Seat, Saison, and Bastion. The space features a stone bar, a dimly lit lounge, and an open-air rooftop patio, with snacks like black truffle popcorn and tinned fish. The drink menu is organized into Standards, House, and a dedicated Zero-Proof section that co-owner Kristopher Esqueda says "doesn't feel like an afterthought." Confirmed zero-proof options include the Neo-Tropical (Giffard N/A Aperitivo, pineapple, ginger, lime soda), the Chaise Lounge (coconut water, cucumber, lime, soda), a St. Agrestis Phony Negroni, Sanbitter, and Corona 0%.
Signature NA drinks- Neo-Tropical
- Chaise Lounge
- St. Agrestis Phony Negroni
- Sanbitter Aperitif
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Le Loup is a craft cocktail bar from restaurateur Ford Fry and his Rocket Farm Restaurants group, opened in early 2022 in Nashville's Germantown neighborhood, tucked above sister restaurant The Optimist. The moody, vintage-inspired room — wood, plush leather, green marble, a stone mantel, and a custom underwater mural by Rebecca Green — pairs more than 50 cocktails (organized as Originals, Classics, Forgotten Classics, and Tributes) with a seafood-leaning menu of oysters, smoked fish dip, scallop crudo, and snacks. For non-drinkers, the bar maintains a dedicated "Zero Proof" list of roughly four made-to-order mocktails at $7–$9, built with the same craft sensibility as the alcoholic menu — think sudachi, sea buckthorn, calpico, and chili. Named zero-proof drinks include the Four and Woodyn You, alongside Lift to the Scaffold and Générique.
Signature NA drinks- Four
- Woodyn You
- Lift to the Scaffold
- Générique
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Four Walls is an intimate cocktail bar tucked inside The Joseph, a Luxury Collection Hotel, in Nashville's SoBro/Downtown district. It opened in July 2023 as the final piece of the hotel's beverage program, developed by Joel Pizzuti, and draws on Music City, the American West, and the hotel's Italian-American roots, with a blood-red Italian marble bar and a "La Famiglia Negroni" list. The bar earned a place on Food & Wine's Top 10 U.S. Hotel Bars (2025) and Esquire's Best Bars in America (2024). Its zero-proof offering is an interactive "Craft Your Experience" mocktail program: rather than a fixed list, guests pick a flavor profile — for example "bright and zesty," "spiced and warm," or "tropical and fruity" — and bartenders build a custom non-alcoholic drink using fresh juices, house-made syrups, and garnishes.
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Rare Bird is the rooftop bar and lounge atop the Noelle Hotel in downtown Nashville, perched on the building's 13th floor with views over the skyline and the Cumberland River. It opened to the public in March 2018, built around a "draft cocktails and uncaged spirits" concept in a colorful, design-forward setting. The bar is walk-in only and runs a daily "Golden Hour" happy-hour menu on weekdays. Alongside its full cocktail program, Rare Bird keeps a small but genuinely named zero-proof list that leans on dedicated NA spirits rather than just juice-and-soda mocktails: the Lemon Julip is built on Seedlip Grove 42, and a non-alcoholic riff on an Aperol Spritz uses Ritual N/A Gin with Giffard aperitif. A spirit-free "Daiquiri-Ish" rounds out the no-proof options. It's a scenic, tourist-popular rooftop where a sober guest can order something genuinely composed.
Signature NA drinks- Lemon Julip
- N/Aperol Spritz
- Daiquiri-Ish
Other bars in Nashville with serious NA programs
These aren't classified as cocktail bars, but their NA programs are extensive enough to be worth a stop.
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 Nashville
7 cocktail-style bars in Nashville run non-alcoholic programs we've verified. Top picks include Passage Kava Lounge, Redemption Bar, The Fox Bar & Cocktail Club.