Sober Bars in Nashville, TN
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.
4 fully alcohol-free · 6 with extensive NA programs · 10 with NA options
Fully alcohol-free venues in Nashville
The entire menu is non-alcoholic. No bar pressure, no "what'll you have" awkwardness.
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The Mockery is a fully alcohol-free bar and non-alcoholic bottle shop tucked inside the Nashville Farmers' Market in Germantown. Billed as "100% alcohol-free," it pairs a working bar with retail: guests can order from roughly 19 house-made zero-proof cocktails or shop bottles to go. The drink program spans de-alcoholized wines (white, rosé, sparkling, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet), NA beers (IPA, pilsner, amber and dark styles), and non-alcoholic spirits, alongside spritzes, highballs, and sparkling-wine-style cocktails. Beyond service, The Mockery hosts NA wine tastings, mocktail-making classes, and private events, positioning itself as an anchor of Nashville's growing sober-curious scene. It keeps Farmers' Market hours, open Friday through Sunday.
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Killjoy is Nashville's first booze-free beverage shop, founded by Stephanie Styll, who stopped drinking at the end of 2020. It launched in 2023 as a hidden 200-square-foot space in Wedgewood-Houston before relocating in November 2024 to a storefront in The Shoppes on Fatherland in East Nashville. The shelves are entirely alcohol-free: NA beer, still and sparkling wine, zero-proof spirits, ready-to-drink cocktails, plus kava, adaptogens, and THC/CBD drinks, with a knowledgeable team to guide customers through the selection. Confirmed brands on its own store include Athletic Brewing, Best Day Brewing, Go Brewing, Untitled Art, Dromme, and Prima Pavé. Killjoy was named among the country's top nonalcoholic bottle shops by Wine Enthusiast, and Styll won a NEXT Award from the Nashville Entrepreneur Center in 2024. It runs frequent Dry January tastings and sober-social events.
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Killjoy Berry Hill is the second location of Killjoy, the alcohol-free bottle shop founded by Stephanie Styll, who stopped drinking in 2020 and launched the business in 2023. After starting as a Wedgewood-Houston pop-up and opening a retail store in East Nashville, Styll expanded to Berry Hill — the neighborhood where the idea began — opening this roughly 1,000-square-foot shop in October 2025. Like the East Nashville store, it sells exclusively non-alcoholic beer, wine, spirits, and functional beverages (including adaptogenic, THC/CBD, and herbal drinks), and offers on-site sampling so customers can taste before buying. Killjoy bills itself as Nashville's first booze-free beverage shop and, per Styll, the only alcohol-free retail business of its kind in the city. The shop's stated mission is to help change the culture around drinking in Nashville.
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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.
Bars with serious NA programs in Nashville
These bars serve alcohol but run extensive NA programs — meaning the zero-proof side is a real menu, not a Shirley Temple afterthought.
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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.
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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.
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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%.
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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.
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Audrey is chef Sean Brock's Appalachian fine-dining restaurant, opened in 2021 in East Nashville and named for his grandmother; it is Michelin-recommended and now led by executive chef Sam Jett. Its non-alcoholic program is built the same way as its cocktails: around fresh, local seasonal produce. At the main restaurant, the zero-proof "menu" arrives as a basket of whole fruits and vegetables — guests pick what they want featured, and the bar builds a drink from no more than three ingredients, using NA bases like Pentire Adrift and the agave alternative Sobre. Head bartender Mike Wolf has said the team will make any drink non-alcoholic. In February 2026 the team opened Upstairs at Audrey, a 30-seat bar above the dining room with a dedicated five-item "zero proof" list, every item priced at $5.
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Southern Grist Brewing opened in February 2016 as a 430-square-foot East Nashville operation run by founders Kevin Antoon, Jamie Lee, and Jared Welch — three friends turned homebrewers — and their wives. It has since grown into one of Nashville's most respected craft breweries, known for hazy IPAs and fruited sours, and now runs two taprooms: this East Nashville location on Douglas Avenue (its newest, in the neighborhood where it started) and a larger spot in The Nations. What earns it a place here is its house non-alcoholic line: Oasis, a zero-proof, calorie-free hop water brewed with Citra and Motueka hops for a floral, citrusy character, plus CBD Oasis, a mango variant infused with local CBD from LabCanna. Because the NA drinks are made in-house and poured on draft alongside the beer, sober and sober-curious drinkers get a genuine brewery experience, not an afterthought.
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 Nashville
Yes. Nashville has 4 dedicated alcohol-free venues: The Mockery, Killjoy, Killjoy Berry Hill, Passage Kava Lounge. An additional 6 bars run extensive NA programs alongside their full bar.