What a mocktail costs, city by city
The median zero-proof cocktail on a US bar menu is $11 — from 636 prices printed on the menus of 188 verified venues in 52 cities. Not a survey, not an estimate: the number each bar publishes, read off its own menu and dated.
Data as of September 28, 2026 · 1,260 priced NA menu items in total · free to reuse (CC BY 4.0)
US cities, priciest first
Cities with at least 8 priced zero-proof cocktails on verified menus. Ranked by median, which is harder to skew than a mean.
| # | City | Median | Mean | Range | Priced mocktails | Venues |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San Francisco, CA | $16 | $14.85 | $8–$21 | 33 | 9 |
| 2 | Dallas, TX | $15 | $13.30 | $10–$15 | 11 | 4 |
| 3 | Seattle, WA | $14 | $12.66 | $4–$16 | 16 | 4 |
| 4 | Atlanta, GA | $13 | $11.54 | $9–$14 | 13 | 4 |
| 5 | Chicago, IL | $13 | $11.94 | $6–$15 | 33 | 12 |
| 6 | Savannah, GA | $13 | $12.50 | $9–$14 | 8 | 3 |
| 7 | Washington, DC | $13 | $12.88 | $12–$13 | 8 | 2 |
| 8 | Boston, MA | $12.68 | $13.39 | $12–$16 | 8 | 4 |
| 9 | Charlotte, NC | $12 | $12.70 | $6.99–$19.99 | 17 | 4 |
| 10 | Denver, CO | $12 | $13 | $9–$19 | 26 | 8 |
| 11 | Detroit, MI | $12 | $11.63 | $5–$15 | 8 | 4 |
| 12 | Honolulu, HI | $12 | $12.44 | $10–$15 | 9 | 2 |
| 13 | Houston, TX | $12 | $11.83 | $6–$15 | 15 | 8 |
| 14 | Las Vegas, NV | $12 | $12.08 | $10–$14 | 12 | 4 |
| 15 | Phoenix, AZ | $12 | $11.40 | $8–$14 | 10 | 4 |
| 16 | Portland, OR | $12 | $12.39 | $8–$16 | 23 | 6 |
| 17 | Salt Lake City, UT | $12 | $11.64 | $6.25–$20 | 16 | 4 |
| 18 | Providence, RI | $11.50 | $11.16 | $8–$15 | 16 | 4 |
| 19 | Columbus, OH | $11 | $10.80 | $10–$12 | 10 | 4 |
| 20 | Miami, FL | $11 | $11.82 | $7–$18 | 11 | 4 |
| 21 | New York, NY | $11 | $12.25 | $5.50–$22 | 35 | 6 |
| 22 | Orlando, FL | $11 | $10.97 | $9–$16 | 19 | 4 |
| 23 | St. Louis, MO | $11 | $11.45 | $9–$16 | 11 | 5 |
| 24 | Tampa, FL | $11 | $10.16 | $6–$14.90 | 9 | 3 |
| 25 | Pittsburgh, PA | $10 | $9.28 | $6–$13 | 16 | 5 |
| 26 | Cleveland, OH | $9 | $8.83 | $6–$13 | 12 | 5 |
| 27 | Los Angeles, CA | $9 | $9 | $9–$9 | 26 | 1 |
| 28 | Milwaukee, WI | $9 | $10.19 | $6–$16 | 16 | 4 |
| 29 | Raleigh-Durham, NC | $9 | $8.77 | $5–$12 | 13 | 4 |
| 30 | Asheville, NC | $8.50 | $9.92 | $7–$18 | 12 | 4 |
| 31 | Minneapolis, MN | $8.50 | $9.76 | $6.99–$14 | 26 | 6 |
| 32 | Philadelphia, PA | $8 | $9.54 | $5–$17 | 26 | 8 |
| 33 | Tulsa, OK | $8 | $8.75 | $5–$13 | 12 | 3 |
| 34 | Charleston, SC | $7.50 | $9.19 | $5.50–$19 | 39 | 6 |
Outside the US
Shown in local currency and never ranked against US prices.
| # | City | Median | Mean | Range | Priced mocktails | Venues |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Melbourne, Victoria | A$13 | A$13.32 | A$10–A$18 | 19 | 5 |
| 2 | Toronto, Ontario | C$12.50 | C$11.09 | C$5–C$16 | 22 | 7 |
| 3 | London, England | £10.70 | £11.60 | £7.90–£20 | 27 | 7 |
| 4 | Manchester, England | £8.50 | £8.03 | £5–£12 | 15 | 3 |
How to read this
- Mocktails only. Non-alcoholic beer, wine and spirits are priced very differently and are kept out of this index; they are in the item-level download.
- Only printed prices. A bar whose menu lists drinks without prices is simply absent — nothing is inferred from a neighbor or a “typical” figure.
- Small samples are excluded. 8 priced items is the floor for a city to appear; the “priced mocktails” column tells you how much weight to give each row.
- Re-derived continuously. Menus are re-checked on a rolling basis; a price we can no longer confirm ages out of the page after six months rather than lingering.
Use this data
Two files, both free to use in articles and research with attribution and a link to this page: the city summary behind the table above, and every individual priced NA menu item we hold — venue, city, item name, category, printed price, and the date that menu was last confirmed.
City summary (CSV)Every priced item (CSV)
Cite as: NA Bar Finder Mocktail Price Index 2026, nabarfinder.com — prices from venues' own published menus, verified as of September 28, 2026.Underlying venue data: NA Bar Finder Venue Dataset, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22133238 (Zenodo; monthly snapshots on GitHub).
Companion dataset: the NA Bar Finder City Index → · Browse what is on the menus themselves: by drink →
Questions
Across 636 zero-proof cocktails with a published price on US bar menus, the median is $11 and the mean is $11.15. That is the price bars actually print, not a survey estimate.
Of the 34 US cities with at least 8 priced mocktails on verified menus, San Francisco has the highest median at $16; Charleston has the lowest at $7.50.
A zero-proof cocktail takes the same bartender time and the same house-made syrups, juices and garnishes as the alcoholic version, and the non-alcoholic spirits and aperitifs many bars build them on retail at spirit prices. Bars with a dedicated NA program tend to price accordingly; the cheaper end of this index is mostly bars offering a few simple builds.
Every price is copied verbatim from the venue's own published menu and carries the date we last confirmed that menu. Prices we could not read (image-only menus, unlabeled numbers) are left out rather than guessed. A city is listed only with at least 8 priced mocktails in a single currency. The data is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a link to this page.