Sober Bars in Denver, CO
Denver pairs Front Range wellness culture with a long-running, award-winning craft cocktail scene — so its non-alcoholic depth lives in the bars and restaurants that take zero-proof seriously. Williams & Graham, the World's-50-Best speakeasy in LoHi, runs a full "Temperance" menu; RiNo's Peach Crease Club labels every drink's ABV and builds zero-proof versions with equal care; Englewood's vegan Fellow Traveler even pours a house non-alcoholic Malört. Michelin-recognized kitchens (Beckon's course-by-course zero-proof pairing, Restaurant Olivia, Pig and Tiger's Taiwanese mocktails) sit alongside RiNo mainstays Honey Elixir Bar, Death & Co, and Nocturne. The fully alcohol-free corner is thinner — Kavasutra's late-night kava lounge on Colfax carries it — but the named-mocktail bench runs deep across LoHi, LoDo, Cherry Creek, and South Broadway.
12 fully alcohol-free · 22 with extensive NA programs · 11 with NA options
Fully alcohol-free venues in Denver
The entire menu is non-alcoholic. No bar pressure, no "what'll you have" awkwardness.
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
Kavasutra Denver is a fully alcohol-free kava and kratom social lounge on the Capitol Hill / East Colfax stretch, part of the Florida-founded Kavasutra chain and among the first true kava bars within Denver city limits. The house specialty is kava imported directly from Vanuatu and served in traditional "shells," alongside kratom teas, loose-leaf and herbal teas, cold brew coffee, and fizzy kombucha-style drinks. Open daily from 10am to 2am, it functions as a late-night, no-alcohol gathering spot — the kind of place Westword has noted draws people who don't drink or are getting sober. One important caveat: it is alcohol-free but not substance-free — it serves kratom, an active and controversial botanical that some reviewers describe as habit-forming.
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
Qamaria Yemeni Coffee Co. is a fully alcohol-free Yemeni coffeehouse on East Hampden Avenue in Aurora, the first Colorado outpost of a chain founded by Yemeni entrepreneurs Hatem Al-Eidaroos and Munif, who source single-origin beans from the Haraz region of Yemen. It opened in April 2026 near the Colorado Muslim Community Center and stays open to 10pm on weeknights and 11pm on Fridays and Saturdays, which makes it a genuine late-evening alternative to a bar rather than a daytime cafe. The room is laid out for lingering, with traditional Yemeni floor seating and cushions alongside conventional tables. Alongside espresso drinks the menu runs to qishr, the tangy infusion brewed from dried coffee husks, and spiced drinks built on cardamom and cinnamon, served with baklava, milk cakes and honeycomb bread.
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
That's Kava is an alcohol-free kava bar on South Broadway in Englewood, on the southern end of the Denver metro's Broadway corridor. The venue states plainly on its own site that "We are an alcohol free establishment" and describes itself as a sober bar. It trades from 8am until 2:30am, which makes it one of the latest-closing alcohol-free rooms in the metro, and it programmes trivia, bingo and board-game nights most evenings of the week. Readers should know what is actually being served: alongside kava, the traditional South Pacific root drink, That's Kava pours kratom and other psychoactive ethnobotanicals, and Colorado law restricts kratom sales to over-21s. The drinks list is organised into kava, teas, on-tap, shots, mocktails and a high-potency "extreme" section.
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
The Karma House is an alcohol-free kava bar at 608 Garrison Street in Lakewood, just west of Denver — a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit run by co-owners Nick Gnieski, Mollie Paige and Deonna Lupola, open 8am to 3am daily including holidays. Its drinks run from freshly brewed kava to a long retail shelf: Leilo kava at $8, Kin Euphorics at $6, Hiyo at $5, Sir Inkwell's yerba maté at $6, Odyssey mushroom elixirs at $5, Rowdy Mermaid kombucha at $4 and Karma Water at $4. ALCOHOL-FREE BUT NOT SUBSTANCE-FREE, and unusually explicit about it: alongside kava it sells kratom in several forms — Mitra 9 seltzers at $8 (20mg kratom extract per can), White Rabbit at $8, Kiody by vein colour at $40, Krabot capsules at $35 — plus CBD soda at $5 (20mg), CBD chocolate at $10, and chewables combining kratom extract, kava and blue lotus. It publishes a dated Legal & Safety Policy: kratom is 21-and-over with photo ID required and kept behind the counter, and it warns against combining botanical drinks with alcohol. No per-gram dosage table is published. The freshly brewed kava itself carries no published price.
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
Peak Kava is the Lakewood branch of Roots & Leaves, a seven-strong kava bar group operating across Colorado and New Mexico. The venue states its position without hedging: "Peak Kava is a non-alcoholic bar dedicated to nurturing social connections without alcohol", and the group markets itself under the line "join the sober shift". It is fitted out as a bar rather than a cafe — two pool tables, giant Jenga, a multicade, a fireplace, bar seating and lounge seating — and runs happy hours from 5pm to 7pm and again from 10pm to midnight. The drinks are kava and ethnobotanical teas, both psychoactive: the house tea blends include blue lotus, California poppy, wild lettuce and white willow, and the kava is served traditionally by the shell or CO2-extracted.
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
Mile High Kava is the Westminster branch of the Roots & Leaves group, on the northwest edge of the Denver metro. The venue describes itself as "a unique 18+ non-alcoholic tea and kava bar experience, perfect for those who prefer to socialize without alcohol", and it is programmed like a bar rather than a tea room: a stage for open-mic nights and karaoke, two pool tables, Skee-Ball, darts, couches and a full-size bar. It also has a kid-friendly area with toys, and hookah is available. Drinks are house-brewed kava and a range of traditional and ethnobotanical teas, both psychoactive plant preparations rather than soft drinks. Happy hours run three times a day, including a late slot from 10pm to midnight.
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
Denver Café & Kava opened on East Colfax in Park Hill in early 2026 as a deliberate zero-proof hangout — a room designed so that there is no pressure to drink, rather than a bar with a good alternatives list. It runs 7am to 2am every day of the week, which is the longest trading day of any alcohol-free venue in the city. The menu covers kava, mocktails, coffee and a range of Chinese and Vietnamese teas, plus small bites, and the calendar is community-led: open-mic nights, local vendor markets and themed parties. The founding team — Kevin Bloom, Elizabeth Leung, Cam Webbe, Jayden MacDonald and Jack Kestian — met as customers at Golden Kava Lounge, west of the city, and built this one together.
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
Royal Kumete is a Polynesian-owned and operated kava lounge on South Broadway, just north of Evans, and it is the only venue in the Denver metro that frames itself first as a cultural room and second as an alcohol alternative. The house line — where tradition meets tranquility — describes a programme built on the traditional serving of kava with a modern presentation, named for the kumete, the carved wooden bowl kava is prepared and shared from across the South Pacific. It is an evening venue rather than a café, opening at 5pm and running late, in a stretch of South Broadway otherwise given over to tattoo shops, vintage stores and bars. Kava is served; the lounge does not serve alcohol.
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
Kava Chris is a small alcohol-free kava bar at 2601 West Hampden Avenue in Sheridan, in the Denver metro, open unusually late — 9am to 2am on weekdays and to 4am on Saturday, with complimentary pool tables. Its menu is short and cheap: a single shell of kava (10oz) is $8, a double (16oz) is $15, a specialty kava is $9 and an extract is $8. Boba is $2 and a lime or lemon 50 cents, with seventeen house syrups — from lavender and orgeat to passion fruit, salted caramel and Swiss chocolate — at 50 cents each. Food is minimal: ramen at $2, chips at $1. ALCOHOL-FREE BUT NOT SUBSTANCE-FREE: alongside the kava it serves kratom, listed plainly under its own "Kratom Tea" heading rather than under a euphemism — green, white or red at $8, or an extract at $10. PLEASE NOTE: unlike some other Colorado kava bars, we could find no published dosage guidance, age policy or health warning anywhere on its website, even though Colorado law requires kratom sales to be 21-and-over with photo ID. Ask at the counter before ordering.
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
KavaDen runs from 9am to 3am every day of the week in a Lakewood strip unit on West Hampden, which makes it the latest-closing alcohol-free room in the Denver metro. The fit-out is a curved bar under neon, with an open layout, comfortable seating and no loud music — built for conversation rather than for volume — and games and puzzles are left out for people to use. It serves no food, so eat first. Happy hour runs 8pm to 10pm daily at half price. IMPORTANT for readers in recovery: alongside kava the menu carries kratom teas and CBD options. Kratom acts on opioid receptors and carries dependence and withdrawal risk that kava does not, so it is worth asking what is in a given cup.
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
The Karma Casa is an alcohol-free kava bar on Youngfield Street in the Applewood area of Golden, open daily from 10am to 2am. It states its purpose directly: a safe, alcohol-free space for work, arts, games and community building — so the room is set up for people to occupy for hours rather than to pass through, and it works as a daytime workspace and a late-night alternative from the same fit-out. Happy hour runs twice daily, 2pm to 4pm and again 7pm to 9pm. The menu covers kava, kratom and herbal teas. IMPORTANT for readers in recovery: kratom acts on opioid receptors and carries real dependence and withdrawal risk, which kava does not — the two are poured side by side here, so order deliberately.
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
Golden Kava Lounge describes itself as having the vibe of a coffee shop mixed with a nightclub, and that is a fair account of a room that serves kava teas, hosts live music, game nights and themed events, and stays open into the small hours without a drop of alcohol on the premises. It sits on South Golden Road at the western edge of the metro, and its influence on the Colorado scene is larger than its size suggests: the five founders of Denver Café & Kava, now open on East Colfax, met each other here as customers before opening their own room in the city. The list runs kava, exotic teas and specialty products.
Bars with serious NA programs in Denver
These bars serve alcohol but run extensive NA programs — meaning the zero-proof side is a real menu, not a Shirley Temple afterthought.
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
The Bardo Coffee House is the South Broadway flagship of a small Denver chain that bills itself as "Denver's Late Night Coffee House", trading 6am to midnight every day of the week one block north of Alameda. No alcohol appears anywhere on its menus; the drinks list is coffee, espresso, tea and a set of house-blended speciality drinks made in-house rather than from commercial syrups. That combination — midnight closing, seven days a week, on the SoBo strip — makes it a working alternative to a bar rather than a daytime cafe, and it is a rare one on a block otherwise dominated by licensed venues. The room runs on 100 percent wind power and offers free WiFi, ample seating, free customer parking and a public colour laser printer.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Honey Elixir Bar is a wellness-forward elixir lounge tucked into the art-covered alley behind Denver Central Market in RiNo, opened in 2019 by Jocasta Hanson. The bar's animating principle is 'rejuvenation over depletion' — by day, the menu runs cacao, jun (a fermented honey tea similar to kombucha but built on honey instead of sugar), kefirs, smoothies, matcha, and chai; by night, it shifts into apothecary cocktails and a full lineup of NA potions, all made with organic herbs, botanicals, raw honey in place of sugar, and adaptogens including lion's mane, chaga, reishi, mucuna pruriens, and Shatavari. The NA potions are unlike anything else in Denver: drinks like the Radiant Roots (turmeric, ginger, house-made jasmine rice milk, oat milk, honey, vanilla) and the Love Spell (hibiscus, blueberry, star anise, shatavari, damiana, rose, violette) come garnished with actual crystals — citrine, rose quartz, rainbow lemurian — and flowers including gardenia, pink yarrow, linden, and cherry blossom. The space is a retro velvet-forward lounge that doubles as a rotating gallery for Denver artists, with a retail section for local makers. Music event nights run every other Friday; regular service is 18+, music nights are 21+. Featured in Westword's January 2026 NA roundup and 5280 Magazine's restaurant guide.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Death & Co Denver is the second outpost of the New York cocktail bar, opened in 2018 inside The Ramble Hotel in Denver's River North Art District. Founders David Kaplan, Alex Day and Ravi DeRossi opened the original Death & Co in a windowless Manhattan room in 2007, where it helped lead the modern craft cocktail movement. The Denver location is a multi-bar complex within the boutique hotel: the marquee lobby bar with 1930s decor and plush velvet seating, the DC/AM coffee and brunch bar serving 7am to 3pm daily, the seasonal outdoor Garden, and Suite 6A, a mezzanine lounge overlooking the lobby bar. The bar keeps a standing Zero Proof section on its Denver menu, currently the Vibe Shift, Porch Swing, Business Casual and Cap Gun, alongside non-alcoholic wine and beer. Opening bar manager Alex Jump, since departed to open The Peach Crease Club, is widely credited as a founding figure of Denver's modern non-alcoholic bar scene.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
El Five is a fifth-floor rooftop Mediterranean tapas restaurant in Denver's LoHi neighborhood, opened on May 3, 2017 by chef and restaurateur Justin Cucci as part of the employee-owned Edible Beats group. The dining room and open-air patio look across the downtown Denver skyline, and the menu draws on Spain, North Africa and the Middle East: paella, mezze, spreads, kebabs and croquettas. The current dinner menu carries a dedicated Zero-Proof Cocktails section rather than a token option. It runs the Faux Fashioned (Three Spirit Nightcap, spiced piloncillo, Turkish tobacco bitters), the Faux Negroni (Lyre's zero-proof spirit, verjus blanc, aperitif syrup, orange zest), the Scarlet Shrub (strawberry, pink peppercorn, champagne vinegar, soda) and a seasonal Faux Sangria, plus three of the bar's gin and tonics made zero-proof with Lyre's. Executive chef is Corey Ferguson. Dinner reservations are recommended, especially for the patio.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Poka Lola Social Club is a cocktail bar inside The Maven Hotel at Dairy Block in Denver's LoDo (Lower Downtown) neighborhood, with a concept that blends art-deco elegance and Midwestern soda-shop nostalgia inspired by turn-of-the-century American soda fountain culture. Beverage manager Lexi Parker runs a seasonal cocktail program built around fresh produce — recent menus have featured ingredients like ube, lychee, snap peas, turmeric, and pink peppercorn-infused spirits. The bar maintains a dedicated non-alcoholic cocktail menu on its own website, which turns over with the seasons: the current list runs Water Your Garden (La Borosa non-alcoholic agave spirit, Giffard NA aperitif, herbes de Provence, lemon), Sandy Cheeks (house coconut cream, pineapple, lime), Walking on Sunshine (strawberry, honey, mint, lemon), and Rootin' Tootin' (sarsaparilla, molasses, wintergreen, star anise). The venue features live music, an alley bar that opens for warm-weather seating, and a 'Dealer's Choice' option where the bar crew creates a custom cocktail based on the guest's preferences.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Yacht Club is a 2021-founded neighborhood bar in Denver's Cole neighborhood, co-owned by McLain Hedges and Mary Alison Wright. The 'anti-club club' concept sits at the crossroads of upscale cocktail haunt, natural wine bar, and beloved dive bar — with hot dogs and dim-sum-style snacks rounding out the food offering. The bar debuted on the World's 50 Best Bars list in 2023 and won the Ketel One Sustainable Bar Award at North America's 50 Best Bars the same year, recognized for sustainability initiatives including fermentation programs that extend the shelf life of seasonal ingredients. The non-alcoholic program is featured on the menu under 'soft bangers' and has been covered in detail by Visit Denver's December 2025 spirit-free roundup (the Paradise Waits — green pineapple, Lyre's white cane, celery, lime, curry leaf) and Sober Bars Finder's Denver mocktails feature (the Friends In Low Places — Three Spirit Nightcap, Late Harvest Verjus, coffee, N.O.T. Chocolate Vinegar). The split-based, wine-forward cocktail philosophy that defines the alcoholic menu extends to the NA program: thoughtful, ingredient-driven, and far from the standard mocktail playbook.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Point Easy is a chef-driven New American restaurant in Denver's Whittier neighborhood, opened on June 29, 2022 in the former Whittier Pub space at the corner of East 28th Avenue and Williams Street. The owners are Andy Bruch and brothers Dan and Dennis "Denn" Phelps, alumni of the Kitchen Restaurant Group in Boulder who had developed the concept years before the pandemic delayed it; Denn Phelps, who wrote the opening menu, died unexpectedly on July 22, 2022, weeks after the doors opened, and the team has run the restaurant in his memory since. The kitchen is now led by executive chef Reuben Tomlins, with Richard Long as general manager. The menu is seasonal and farm-driven with a house-made pasta program, and the wine list favours biodynamic and small-producer bottles. The bar keeps a headed 0% ABV section of six drinks on its own published menu, from a fermented pineapple tepache and a Colorado-made non-alcoholic crabapple cider to cocktails built on Dr Zero Zero amaro, Citadel non-alcoholic gin and Giffard elderflower non-alcoholic liqueur, and the bar's Get Fed service will build a drink to a guest's stated preferences.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Retrograde is a retro-futuristic cocktail lounge hidden behind the freezer door of Sweet Action Ice Cream on East 19th Avenue in Denver's Uptown. Guests flip a light switch by the door to signal staff, then enter a dim room styled with mid-century furniture, cosmic detailing and cult films projected on the walls. The cocktail list is named after B-movies, and the non-alcoholic list follows the same conceit: the current board, titled "Invasion of the Pod People", carries four built non-alcoholic cocktails rather than a single bartender's-choice option. They are Forbidden Texture (apple custard, toasted sugar, aromatic bitters, aqua faba), Low Orbit (apple, orange, marshmallow), The Thing on the Rocks (American oak tea, pear core, aromatic bitters) and The Day the Juice Stood Still (clarified orange juice, cold pear, lemon, sobacha, soda water). Retrograde is 21+, first-come first-served with no reservations, and caps parties at five.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Lady Jane is a neighborhood cocktail bar on West 32nd Avenue in Denver's LoHi (Lower Highlands), established in 2018 and known for a menu that rotates frequently and a collaborative bar team led by general manager Stuart Weaver. Westword has described the non-alcoholic program as having "a permanent place" on the menu rather than being a Dry January promotion, and the current list keeps four built zero-proof drinks at a flat $12 alongside the spirited cocktails: the Grapehojicha Swizzle (Three Spirit Livener, Concord grape, Giffard pineapple shrub, pineapple, hojicha tea, lime), the Pineapple Nogroni (AMASS Riverine, Giffard bitter aperitif, pineapple, Leopold Bros non-alcoholic aperitivo), the Cucumber Spritz (UNDONE Little French Aperitif, cucumber, matcha honey, soda) and Morning Bun & Coffee (The Pathfinder Hemp & Root, Three Spirit Nightcap, cold brew, morning bun syrup, cardamom). The bar was named Reader's Choice Best Bar in 5280's Top of the Town 2023 awards, and operates mainly first-come first-served.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Adrift Tiki Bar is an immersive Polynesian and Caribbean-inspired tiki bar on South Broadway in Denver, established in 2011 and bought in 2016 by current owner Loren Martinez, who also runs Little Man Ice Cream. The room is a full tropical build: a totem-pole-flanked bar, pufferfish lights, and an outdoor patio with a firepit, with a kitchen turning out spice-route Polynesian and Caribbean plates to match the rum-forward list. The menu carries a dedicated "On Dry Land (No ABV)" section — Anchored Tides (ginger, lime, demerara, Leopold Bros non-alcoholic aperitif), the N/A Mai Tai and N/A Painkiller (both built on Ritual N/A Rum), and the P.O.G. of passion fruit, orange and guava — plus a Mash Gang non-alcoholic IPA. A separate "In Shallow Water" section lists low-ABV cocktails for guests moderating rather than abstaining. Vince Polizzi is bar manager.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Nocturne Jazz & Supper Club is a modern jazz and supper club opened in 2015 by Nicole and Scott Mattson, set inside a restored early 20th-century warehouse in Denver's RiNo Arts District. The two-level art deco space — designed for the acoustics of its raw steel and tall wood ceilings, with a mezzanine overlooking the stage — features live jazz nightly Wednesday through Sunday, including an Artist-in-Residency programming where artists explore a single musical icon, genre, or original work across a four-to-eight-week run. The dinner program is built as 'Dinner and a Show' — a three-course seasonal menu paired with the evening's music — and Nocturne is the only venue in Colorado to feature jazz programming exclusively. The non-alcoholic offering is just as intentional as the live music: the seasonally-rotating 'Ain't Misbehavin'' menu is a curated collection of four original NA cocktails, available à la carte at the bar or paired with the dinner menu. Current and recent named selections include the Violet Suede (Lyre's N/A gin, verjus, aquafaba, blueberry pink peppercorn syrup), Crimson & Clover (Lyre's London Dry N/A gin, spiced cranberry syrup, soda), Cha Cha Chai (chai-infused Seedlip 94, rosemary, coconut water, cranberry, lemon, orange), and Golden Harmony (Lyre's White Cane Spirit, Seedlip Garden 108, tamarind, verjus, orange, spice whipped honey). A Billie Holiday mural by Denver street artist Detour marks the entrance. A per-guest artist fee is added to checks to support the performing musicians.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Dew Drop Inn is a women-owned gastropub at 17th and Downing in Denver's Uptown neighborhood, opened in 2021 by the team behind two of Denver's classic dive bars — the Horseshoe Lounge and the Embassy Tavern. Named Westword's Best New Bar in 2022, the venue blends a neighborhood-bar warmth (all-day $8 beer-and-shot specials, two daily happy hours running open–6pm and 10pm–close) with a serious gastropub program: Bangkok-style mussels, charcuterie, muffuletta, fried chicken, with 85% of the menu prepared gluten-free. The bar runs a named non-alcoholic program called 'clear-headed cocktails' — six rotating NA cocktails alongside two NA beers and a non-alcoholic prosecco, called out by 303 Magazine in their 2025 Sober Summer mocktail roundup. Named NA selections include the Be Nice (NA gin, lavender bitters) and the Cosmonaught (orange liqueur, cranberry, citrus). The space — tiger-print wallpaper, exposed brick, long wooden bar — is consciously designed to 'make regulars,' a philosophy the founding team has carried through 20 years of Denver hospitality.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
The Peach Crease Club is a mid-century-inspired vinyl listening bar in Denver's RiNo district, across the plaza from Mission Ballroom, opened November 28, 2025 by husband-and-wife bartenders Alex Jump and Stuart Jensen. The culinary-driven cocktail list names drinks after the dishes they reference, and — crucially for non-drinkers — the menu prints the alcohol-by-volume of every drink and marks those that can be built non-alcoholic, with a full Non Alc page carrying four cocktails of their own: Green Curry (non-alcoholic rum, curry spices, palm sugar, rice, coconut, MSG, soda), Peanuts & Cola (The Pathfinder, Three Spirit Nitecap, peanuts, cola), Borscht (non-alcoholic vodka, beets, yogurt, dill, lime, horseradish cream) and Hazelnut & Peaches (non-alcoholic white wine and French aperitif, peaches, sweet potato, dukkah). Non-alcoholic beer, wine and Casamara Club sodas are listed alongside. It earned a 2026 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards nomination for Best New US Cocktail Bar.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Williams & Graham is a Prohibition-style speakeasy in Denver's LoHi neighborhood, entered through a hidden door disguised as a bookcase in a faux bookstore. Bartender Sean Kenyon opened it in 2011 with partner Todd Colehour, and it has become one of the country's most decorated bars — a James Beard nominee for Outstanding Beverage Program, a World's 50 Best Bars listee and a Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards winner. Alongside its classics it keeps a standing "Temperance" section of seven zero-proof options priced $8 to $12 and built on serious non-alcoholic spirits: Staycation (The Pathfinder, chocolate and roasted corn, Coco Lopez), My Bitter Clementine (Earl Grey, clementine shrub, Giffard aperitif, lemon), Heat Seeker (Three Spirit Nightcap, Amass Riverine, lime, gochujang and tea, Coco Lopez, cucumber), Imposter Syndrome (Giffard aperitif, The Pathfinder, Giesen zero-proof sauvignon blanc, strawberry rose living vinegar), Windowshopper, Passionate Earl and three house-made sodas. A second outpost operates at Denver International Airport.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Fellow Traveler is a fully vegan bar and cafe that opened in January 2022 at 3487 South Broadway in Englewood, just south of Denver, from a team including former Sputnik bartender Joe Phillips. It is celebrated for a deep collection of roughly forty amari and bitter liqueurs, but it also runs one of the inner metro's most developed zero-proof programs: a dedicated Zero Proof cocktail list alongside non-alcoholic beer and wine. Named alcohol-free pours include Nectar of the Gods (grapefruit, lemon, pickle brine, simple and soda), Billows & Thieves (grapefruit, lemon, cold brew, cardamom-cinnamon syrup), the N/agroni (Sanbitter, tart cherry, juniper syrup) and the N/alort, the house zero-proof answer to Malort, plus a Rosemary Peach Bellini, an Agua de Jamaica and a tart cherry, lemon and ginger health shot. 5280 flagged its "great nonalcoholic cocktail choices," and Westword named it Best You'd-Never-Know-It's-Vegan Restaurant in 2025.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Beckon is a Michelin-starred, 18-seat chef's counter in Denver's RiNo neighborhood, opened in 2018 by chef and owner Duncan Holmes, a James Beard Award semifinalist. Diners sit facing the open kitchen for a multi-course, reservation-only seasonal tasting menu that changes through the year, with produce coming in part from the restaurant's own one-acre farm. Beyond the wine list, the beverage menu carries a labelled Zero Proof section built to track the food rather than to sit beside it: First Ascent (passion fruit, almond, ginger beer) and Starry Maid (flowering coriander, hibiscus, Seedlip Grove 42, Ghia non-alcoholic aperitivo, lime, faba), both at $10. Allison Anderson of Beckon won the Michelin Guide Colorado Service Award in 2024. It is a fine-dining counter rather than a walk-in bar; book ahead.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Forget Me Not is a cocktail lounge tucked off Clayton Street in Cherry Creek North, opened in 2019 with a bright, floral-leaning room and a small-plates menu of salmon crudo, street corn dip and wagyu steak tartare. Its drinks list carries a standing "Zero Proof" heading rather than a footnote, with three house non-alcoholic cocktails priced at $13 — the same tier as much of the low-ABV list — that rotate with the seasons. All three are built on Seedlip non-alcoholic spirits and treated as compositions rather than juice: the earthy Deep Roots, the herbal Green Machine and the floral Osaka Afternoon. Both 5280 and Visit Denver have singled the bar out for its zero-proof program.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Gold Point is a whiskey-forward neighbourhood bar on Larimer Street in Five Points, known locally as an industry hangout where bartenders drink after their shifts, with a patio and no pretension. Despite the reputation, it keeps a standing "Non-Alcoholic" heading on its own drink menu alongside cocktails, cans and bottles, wine and combos. The three house zero-proof drinks are built on non-alcoholic spirits rather than juice, and priced at $11 to $12: a fruity non-alcoholic French 75 made with Ritual gin, a Phony Negroni, and a tropical bitter spritz built on The Pathfinder hemp spirit. The bar also stocks Athletic Brewing's Atletica Mexican-style lager and Three Spirit Spark by the can. It opens at 4pm on weekdays, 2pm at weekends, and trades to 2am daily.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Briar Common is a brewery and restaurant on the corner of Clay Street in Jefferson Park, a short walk from Empower Field, focused on classic beer styles paired with an eclectic food menu. Its bar list carries a dedicated "Zero Proof" heading with six house non-alcoholic drinks at $7 each — all built from fresh juices, house syrups and teas rather than bought-in mixers — plus a guest non-alcoholic beer shelf at $6 that runs Best Day Brewing's Electro-Lime and West Coast IPA alongside 4 Noses Camp Zero Tangerine Guava Blonde. The zero-proof list includes a colour-changing lemonade made with butterfly pea blossom syrup and a hot chamomile-and-honey drink, so the range covers a full evening rather than one token option.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
The Tatarian is a contemporary neighbourhood cocktail bar on Tennyson Street in Berkeley, opened in 2018 and named for the Tatarian maples that shade the sidewalks outside. Its drinks are themed around trees of the world, and the theme extends into the non-alcoholic list: the house zero-proof cocktail, Luna, is named in honour of the activist Julia Butterfly Hill, who occupied a thousand-year-old California redwood to stop it being logged. Unusually for a Denver bar, the back bar carries non-alcoholic spirits as stocked bottles rather than as a single house pour — CleanCo Tequila Blanco, Lyre's London Spirit and Seedlip Garden 108 are all listed by the glass — alongside Partake's non-alcoholic IPA. 303 Magazine picked the bar out in its 2025 sober-summer guide.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Chez Maggy is the ground-floor French restaurant of the Thompson Denver hotel on Market Street, and the first restaurant outside Los Angeles from Michelin-starred chef Ludo Lefebvre. It is named for Lefebvre's late mother-in-law Margaret, a Colorado native who was killed by a drunk driver in 2019 — context that gives the restaurant's zero-proof list more weight than a hotel bar's usual courtesy offering. Visit Denver describes a delectable selection of zero-proof cocktails, naming the Earl Grey Bliss, built on tea-infused Ritual zero-proof gin with lemon and honey, and a St. Agrestis Phony Negroni made with the brand's non-alcoholic mezcal. The kitchen applies the same approach to the food, cooking classic French dishes with Colorado ingredients. Bar M, in the hotel lobby, is the companion cocktail room.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Wildflower is the restaurant of the Gravity Haus Denver hotel on Navajo Street in Highland, serving locally-sourced, carefully curated dishes and listed in the Michelin Guide. Its non-alcoholic list is short but built with the same technique as the cocktails: Westword describes the El Corazón as melding coconut, lemon, orgeat and hoja santa, the Mexican herb whose flavour runs close to root beer, and the Padre Pio as combining chamomile honey, lavender and lemon. A sparkling green tea rounds out the list. The pairing of a hotel restaurant with an outdoor-focused hospitality group means the room draws a mixed crowd, and the drinks are priced and presented alongside the full-proof list rather than tucked away. Wildflower serves dinner Monday to Saturday and closes on Sundays.
What makes a bar "sober-friendly"?
"Sober-friendly" covers a wider range of venues than people usually realize. On one end: a fully alcohol-free bar where every drink on the menu is zero-proof and the staff is trained around the experience. On the other: a regular cocktail bar with a couple of mocktails listed but a vibe that still revolves around drinking. Both can work, depending on what you need.
What we look for in a 5/5 rating: the entire menu is alcohol-free, the owners explicitly position the space as a non-alcoholic destination, and the staff treats NA drinking as the default rather than the exception. A 4/5 rating goes to bars that serve alcohol but maintain a deep, named NA program — usually with multiple signature mocktails and an NA-spirits section on the back bar.
We don't claim to be a recovery resource — for that, your local AA, NA, or SMART Recovery chapter is the right call. But for anyone choosing not to drink tonight, for any reason, this is the directory you want.
Frequently asked about sober bars in Denver
Yes. Denver has 12 dedicated alcohol-free venues: Kavasutra Kava Bar, Qamaria Yemeni Coffee Co., That's Kava, The Karma House, Roots and Leaves: Peak Kava, Roots And Leaves: Mile High Kava Bar, Denver Café & Kava, Royal Kumete Kava Lounge, Kava Chris, KavaDen, The Karma Casa, Golden Kava Lounge. An additional 22 bars run extensive NA programs alongside their full bar.
A sober bar is fully alcohol-free — the entire menu is non-alcoholic, the space is built for people who don't drink, and there's no risk of social pressure to have a drink. A regular bar with an NA program serves both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. Both can be welcoming, but they're structurally different experiences, and we rate them differently (5/5 vs 4/5).
Denver pairs Front Range wellness culture with a long-running, award-winning craft cocktail scene — so its non-alcoholic depth lives in the bars and restaurants that take zero-proof seriously. Williams & Graham, the World's-50-Best speakeasy in LoHi, runs a full "Temperance" menu; RiNo's Peach Crease Club labels every drink's ABV and builds zero-proof versions with equal care; Englewood's vegan Fellow Traveler even pours a house non-alcoholic Malört. Michelin-recognized kitchens (Beckon's course-by-course zero-proof pairing, Restaurant Olivia, Pig and Tiger's Taiwanese mocktails) sit alongside RiNo mainstays Honey Elixir Bar, Death & Co, and Nocturne. The fully alcohol-free corner is thinner — Kavasutra's late-night kava lounge on Colfax carries it — but the named-mocktail bench runs deep across LoHi, LoDo, Cherry Creek, and South Broadway.
Most are, but we list venues for everyone who wants a great non-alcoholic drink — sober, sober-curious, pregnant, designated drivers, or just not drinking tonight. NABarFinder is a directory, not a recovery resource. If you're looking for recovery-specific spaces, your local AA / NA / SMART Recovery chapter is the right place to ask.
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