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 and tiki spot Coral Club. The city's fastest-growing alcohol-free scene is its immigrant-run coffeehouses, which WPLN has covered as a deliberate sober nightlife: Yemeni chain Haraz on Woodland Street pours mufawar and adeni chai until midnight at weekends, Palestinian-owned Deir Cafe runs to 1am in Antioch, Swahili coffeehouse Kahawa stays open to 10pm by Vanderbilt, and Somali cafe The Horn brews chai on Murfreesboro Pike and in Midtown.
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Fully alcohol-free venues in Nashville
The entire menu is non-alcoholic. No bar pressure, no "what'll you have" awkwardness.
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
CHECK BEFORE YOU TRAVEL — we cannot confirm this venue is still trading. The Mockery is a fully alcohol-free bar and non-alcoholic bottle shop that operated inside the Nashville Farmers' Market in Germantown, pairing a working bar with retail so guests could drink on site or take bottles home. Its own channel describes the range as non-alcoholic wines, beer, sparkling-wine cocktails and classic cocktails, made by hand to order, on Farmers' Market trading days rather than bar hours — Friday to Sunday, closing in the afternoon. Three things now point the other way. Its website domain no longer resolves at all. It does not appear anywhere in the Nashville Farmers' Market's own current merchant directory, which does list the market house's other restaurants and shops by name. And we can find no dated activity — no post, review or listing — newer than early 2025. Its Instagram account does still exist. No closure has been announced anywhere, so we have kept the listing rather than remove a business that may simply be dormant or have moved, but message the bar before making a trip.
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
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.
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
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.
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
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.
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
Haraz Coffee House is a fully alcohol-free Yemeni coffeehouse on Woodland Street in East Nashville, open until midnight on Friday and Saturday. It is the Nashville franchise of the Dearborn, Michigan chain that roasts sun-dried coffee grown in Yemen's Haraz Mountains, and it opened here in 2024 under franchisees Abdelrahman Abdelwahed and Jobran Mohamed. The drinks list runs to traditional Yemeni preparations alongside the espresso menu: Harazi Mufawar, made with coffee, cardamom and cream; Adeni chai; Sana'ani black coffee with cardamom; Qishr brewed from coffee husk with cinnamon and ginger; and Jubani. The room was designed around handmade blue Turkish tiles, geometric Arabian woodwork and a Yemeni-style couch at the entrance. No alcohol is served at any hour.
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
Kahawa Coffee House is a fully alcohol-free East African coffeehouse at 120 21st Avenue North, on the edge of the Vanderbilt campus, open until 10pm every night of the week. It opened in September 2025 under owner Zahran Almawali, serving Swahili street food alongside a specialty coffee programme. The drinks list is built around East African and Arabian preparations - Kahawa Chai spiced tea by the cup or pot, Zanzibar dirty chai, Zanzibar black tea, Dallat Qahawa Arabic coffee and Turkish coffee - plus a house line of rose and saffron lattes and a Kahawa Mojito with mango, passion fruit, strawberry and sparkling water. Food runs to sambusas, kaimati and spring rolls. The building is a low tropical hut with golden lion statues at the door. No alcohol is served.
- NA Program Strength: 5 of 5?
Deir Cafe Antioch is the second location of Yousef Gumiza's fully alcohol-free Palestinian coffeehouse, on Haywood Lane in the Antioch neighbourhood of Nashville, and it is the one that keeps the late hours: open seven days a week from 9am until 1am. It took over the former La Princesa Market space, first reported in January 2026. The menu follows the original in Wedgewood-Houston - Mediterranean-inflected signature lattes including the Baklawa latte and the Golden Lotus with biscoff and caramel, fruit refreshers named in Arabic such as Roman for pomegranate and Ward for rose, matcha, smoothies and pastries. No alcohol is served at any hour, which is the point: it was built as a night cafe for a community that does not drink.
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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.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
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.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
The Fox Bar & Cocktail Club is a plush 1,000-square-foot craft cocktail bar in East Nashville's Inglewood stretch, tucked behind an Italian restaurant on Gallatin Pike. It opened on 28 September 2017 from Bryan Rushton and Andrew Cook, longtime music-industry friends and Massachusetts natives, in a room fitted out with reclaimed wood from Nashville-area houses. Food & Wine named it one of the 10 Best U.S. Bars in 2023, Eater Nashville made it Bar of the Year the same year, and USA Today's 2026 list called it one of the city's strongest cocktail programs. Its non-alcoholic drinks are built with the same technique as the full menu and, importantly, they rotate with the seasons rather than sitting still — the current three are the East Coast Inferno (Sanbittèr Red, orange juice, Old Bay, habanero, lemon), Pêche Mode (Almave Ámbar non-alcoholic tequila, peach, lime, salted honey) and Duck Hunt (duck fat Lapsang Souchong, The Pathfinder, cherry, BBQ bitters), all $12.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
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%.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Le Loup is a vintage-inspired craft cocktail bar from restaurateur Ford Fry's Rocket Farm Restaurants group, opened in early 2022 in Nashville's Germantown neighbourhood above its sister restaurant The Optimist. The cocktail programme was built by Kenneth Vanhooser, a Nashville native who spent a decade working in New York. The room is deep green marble and rich colour under a custom underwater mural by Rebecca Green — The Infatuation summed up the effect as the distinct feeling you're submerged in a submarine — and the food is seafood-leaning: bluefin tuna belly, West Coast uni, smoked fish dip with trout roe. The bar keeps a short section headed "Zero Proof", currently two made-to-order drinks at $8 each: Lift to the Scaffold (lemon, mint, cucumber, alfalfa, tonic) and Four (grapefruit, calpico, pineapple, ginger, chili). Athletic's Atletica zero-alcohol beer is $6.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Deir Cafe is a fully alcohol-free Palestinian coffeehouse on Hagan Street in Wedgewood-Houston, open seven days a week from 7am to 6pm. Owner Yousef Gumiza named it after Deir al-Balah, his family's city in Gaza, and built it as a community room as much as a cafe: it keeps a dedicated prayer space alongside the counter. The drinks are Mediterranean-inflected rather than standard third-wave - a Baklawa latte, a Golden Lotus latte with biscoff and caramel, a Strawberry Dubai Chocolate latte, a Banana Spice latte - plus fruit refreshers named in Arabic: Roman for pomegranate, Ward for rose, Khokh for peach. Matcha, smoothies and pastries fill out the list. No alcohol is served. A second Deir Cafe operates on Haywood Lane in Antioch.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
The Café at Thistle Farms is a fully alcohol-free cafe, tea room and event space on Charlotte Avenue in West Nashville, run as a nonprofit social enterprise that employs women survivors of trafficking, prostitution and addiction. It sits on the Thistle Farms campus alongside the organisation's shop and body-care workshop. The kitchen serves locally sourced breakfast and lunch, and the cafe runs a daily seated tea service - by reservation, 1pm to 3pm - with a steeped pot, a china cup donated by a supporter or programme graduate, and six chef's-choice bites on a tiered tray. The loose-leaf list includes Earl Grey Lavender, Casablanca Twist, Cha Cha, Masala Chai and a house blend called Communi-Tea. No alcohol is served. Closed Sundays.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Pushing Daisies is a subterranean agave bar beneath Fifth + Broadway in downtown Nashville, opened in November 2022 by restaurateur Sam Fox as his first bar concept. It is a licensed cocktail bar built around margaritas, tequila and mezcal, and it carries a standing zero-proof section on its printed menu headed Nada Guey: the Paloma Refresco with ruby grapefruit, lava salt, fresh lime and fizzy water; La Playa with fluffy pineapple, toasted cinnamon, pomegranate and chia seeds; and the Fresa Loca with fresh strawberry, mandarin orange and citrus tonic, each $9. The room is a low-lit lounge with a hidden entrance across from Bridgestone Arena, floral wall murals and a daisy-tiled floor, and it stays open to 2am on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
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 7 dedicated alcohol-free venues: The Mockery, Killjoy, Killjoy Berry Hill, Passage Kava Lounge, Haraz Coffee House, Kahawa Coffee House, Deir Cafe Antioch. An additional 7 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).
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 and tiki spot Coral Club. The city's fastest-growing alcohol-free scene is its immigrant-run coffeehouses, which WPLN has covered as a deliberate sober nightlife: Yemeni chain Haraz on Woodland Street pours mufawar and adeni chai until midnight at weekends, Palestinian-owned Deir Cafe runs to 1am in Antioch, Swahili coffeehouse Kahawa stays open to 10pm by Vanderbilt, and Somali cafe The Horn brews chai on Murfreesboro Pike and in Midtown.
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.