Sober Bars in Salt Lake City, UT
Salt Lake City may have the deepest non-alcoholic scene in the country relative to its size — Utah's large non-drinking population means a real zero-proof option is the rule, not an afterthought. The fully alcohol-free corner is anchored by 1833 Craft, a Sugar House speakeasy whose entire menu is zero-proof (the name nods to 1833, the year of the Latter-day Saint "Word of Wisdom"), and Botanika, the city's first non-alcoholic bottle shop and gourmet grocer in the Granary. Downtown carries the craft-cocktail depth: Post Office Place prints a full non-alcoholic menu, Laurel Brasserie at The Grand America runs a standing "Zero Proof" list, and Lake Effect, Bar X, Copper Common, The Ruin, and Van Ryder's rooftop "Proofless" menu all build spirit-free drinks with real care. HK Brewing brews its own award-winning Han's Kombucha and zero-proof cocktails in the Ballpark district, the Polynesian kava lounge Kai Po holds down the late-night sober-social side, and the all-ages SHOUT dance club proves a night out downtown doesn't need a drop of alcohol.
5 fully alcohol-free · 8 with extensive NA programs · 6 with NA options
Fully alcohol-free venues in Salt Lake City
The entire menu is non-alcoholic. No bar pressure, no "what'll you have" awkwardness.
- ★★★★★?
Salt Lake City's dedicated non-alcoholic speakeasy, opened in December 2024 inside a restored century-old Sugar House home known as The Eclipse House and run by sibling team Matthew and Kelly LaPlante. The entire menu is zero-proof — "0% Alcohol, 100% Heart" — built by co-owner and lead bartender Matthew, a former Salt Lake Tribune reporter who quit drinking but never left bar culture, with his sister Kelly, a designer, styling the room as a forest-green, 1920s-inspired lounge. The duo have developed 50-plus craft NA cocktails on premium spirits like Lyre's, Dhōs, Trejo's and Kentucky 74, finished with herbs from their own basement hydroponic garden. The name nods to 1833, the year of the Latter-day Saint "Word of Wisdom," and because nothing on the menu contains alcohol, no ID is required — a genuine cocktail experience for people in recovery, designated drivers, never-drinkers, and the sober-curious.
- ★★★★★?
Salt Lake City's first all-non-alcoholic bottle shop and gourmet grocer, a woman-owned spot founded by Kate Riser that opened in May 2025 in the historic Artspace Rubber Company building on 200 South. Riser, who spent years in food and beverage across San Francisco, New York and nearly a decade in Europe, built it out with concrete floors, white walls and custom display cases. The shelves run deep on zero-proof spirits, wine, aperitifs, mixers and canned cocktails — roughly 300 products from about 50 mostly small, independent and minority-owned makers, including brands like The Pathfinder Hemp & Root and Aplós — alongside gourmet pantry goods. A small lounge lets visitors open an alcohol-free wine, sip a canned botanical cocktail and linger, making it a sober "third place" for the sober and sober-curious.
- ★★★★★?
A women-owned, queer-owned kombucha brewery and taproom in the Ballpark/Granary district that doubles as one of the metro's strongest zero-proof cocktail programs — winner of City Weekly's "Best Zero-Proof Cocktails" in 2024 and 2025. The taproom opened in spring 2023 inside a converted former auto-repair shop, the project of founder Hannah Hendrickson, who began brewing Han's Kombucha while at the University of Utah, and co-owner Kate Lubing. Non-alcoholic Han's Kombucha is fermented on-site, poured in a build-your-own flight, and forms the base of many crafted zero-proof cocktails like the High Noon Hibiscus Mule. As Lubing puts it, whether a guest is sober-curious, fully sober, a cocktail lover or a beer drinker, the space is built so everyone feels equally considered.
- ★★★★★?
Opened in June 2018 by Takashi and Tamara Gibo — the team behind the acclaimed Takashi sushi next door — Post Office Place is an intimate craft cocktail bar that shares an entrance with the restaurant on Market Street. Known for a deep Japanese whisky list and a James Beard Foundation Outstanding Bar Program semifinalist nod in 2023, it also keeps one of the most thorough printed non-alcoholic menus in Salt Lake City. The dedicated NA menu itemizes a bottled St. Agrestis Phony Negroni, Athletic NA beers, Gruvi Sparkling Rosé, and build-your-own zero-proof cocktails on Spiritless (Kentucky 74, Jalisco 55), Dhōs Gin, and Monday Zero whisky — plus a bespoke "Bartender Roulette" the team crafts to order. In 2026 the bar was named Salt Lake magazine's Best Restaurant alongside its Takashi omakase collaboration.
- ★★★★★?
A fully alcohol-free mobile mocktail bar founded in 2020 by Annali and Cameron Walker, who started the company after failing to find a "high-class soda bar" for their own wedding reception. Every drink is zero-proof — the founders describe mocktails as "mock cocktails" where all the options have 0% alcohol — built into custom, color-matched menus and served from portable bars, with options like a blackberry-jalapeño-salt mocktail, peach-strawberry, and grapefruit-mango. Based in the Lehi/Riverton area, it caters weddings, corporate functions and private events across the Salt Lake metro, and has been featured on KUTV and in Voyage Utah.
Bars with serious NA programs in Salt Lake City
These bars serve alcohol but run extensive NA programs — meaning the zero-proof side is a real menu, not a Shirley Temple afterthought.
- ★★★★★?
A downtown Salt Lake City craft cocktail bar, Latin-inspired kitchen, and live-music venue that opened in 2017 inside a historic 1910 building. Spread across three spaces — the main floor, the Rabbit Hole jazz speakeasy downstairs, and the Church bar and club upstairs — it pairs an extensive cocktail program with a dedicated Non-Alcoholic Beverages menu that gets the same craft treatment as the full bar. The zero-proof list leans on premium NA spirits, with Seedlip-based mocktails like Like A Virgin and Mountain Flower, Monday Zero whiskey builds such as the New Fashioned and an NY Whiskey Sour, and Dhōs-based highballs. Axios Salt Lake City has highlighted Lake Effect's list of non-alcoholic libations as a reliable stop for a Dry January or sober night out.
- ★★★★★?
Inside The Grand America Hotel, Laurel Brasserie & Bar pairs classic European cuisine with a modern American approach and runs a standing zero-proof, alcohol-free cocktail list the kitchen treats as the equal of its cocktail program rather than an afterthought. The lineup is anchored by the Eastside — built on Seedlip Spice with muddled cucumber, kaffir lime syrup and lime, per Utah Stories — alongside a seasonal shrub, the coconut-forward Dreamcicle, and a Tamarind Lemon Spritz, each priced like a happy-hour bite at $7. Developed under beverage director Mark Moulton and opened in late 2021, it is one of the clearest documented NA programs in a fine-dining setting downtown.
- ★★★★★?
A downtown craft cocktail bar and gastropub from chef Ryan Lowder, part of his CO Hospitality group alongside The Copper Onion. Opened in 2014 in the former Plum Alley space and rebooted as "Copper Common 2.0" in 2022, it was named Salt Lake magazine's 2025 Best Restaurant. Its bartenders treat alcohol-free orders with the same care as the acclaimed cocktail list: the signature move is "mocktail roulette," a bartender's-choice non-alcoholic cocktail they'll also tailor to your taste, backed by a low-ABV menu for those on the fence — making it a consistent pick among the city's best for alcohol-free drinking.
- ★★★★★?
A historic downtown cocktail bar that traces its roots to 1933 and was restored into its current craft-cocktail incarnation in 2011 by a group that includes Modern Family actor Ty Burrell. There's no fixed mocktail menu; instead bartenders take a "roulette" approach, asking what flavors you're craving and building custom zero-proof drinks from house-made syrups, fresh juices, ginger beer and tinctures — sometimes finishing with a flamed-cinnamon flourish for theater. The Salt Lake Tribune singled out Bar X for its non-alcoholic creativity, and as manager Julie Tall puts it, the staff geek out over flavors more than the spirits, so cocktails and mocktails get equal care.
- ★★★★★?
An 11th-floor rooftop bar atop the Le Méridien Salt Lake City Downtown, opened in February 2023 with a Western-saloon aesthetic. Its non-alcoholic program is unusually deep: a dedicated "Proofless Cocktails" menu (the Honey Badger Redux and Meet Me in The Garden, both around $11) plus a separate "Proofless Beer" list. Director of Libations and Service Elyse Evan has put the zero-proof program at roughly 15% of total sales, with NA beer running 25-30% of all beer sales. The spirit-free builds get the same care as the full rooftop cocktail list, served against floor-to-ceiling skyline and Wasatch Range views.
- ★★★★★?
An upscale, whiskey-forward cocktail bar on the second floor above the Grand Hall of the restored 1908 Union Pacific Depot, opened in late 2024 with the Asher Adams (Marriott Autograph Collection) hotel at The Gateway downtown. Named after the historic Union Pacific No. 119 steam locomotive, it pairs original stained glass and terrazzo floors with skyline views. The hotel's food and beverage director has said the bar carries roughly as many non-alcoholic options as traditional cocktails, anchoring a serious zero-proof program built on NA spirits like Seedlip Garden 108.
- ★★★★★?
A Polynesian-owned, family-operated kava lounge and restaurant on the State Street corridor in South Salt Lake, where the owner shares the ancestral history of kava alongside every pour. The fully alcohol-free bar serves traditional kava, an ever-rotating line of flavored kava shots (the guava version and a fall "KavaChata" kava-horchata among them), kava mocktails, and exotic teas, paired with island-style Polynesian plates and desserts. With a DJ spinning relaxed island and old-school West Coast music, it bills itself as "Good Vibes Only" and is one of the few zero-proof social bars in the metro open into the early-morning hours.
- ★★★★★?
An 18+, fully alcohol-free dance club at 32 Exchange Place in downtown Salt Lake City, opened on May 24, 2024 for the under-21 and sober/sober-curious crowd. Founded by Roger Muir, it runs as a themed-event venue rather than a nightly bar: a real dancefloor with fog and laser-light shows, a game area, and a separate video-gaming lounge. The bar is zero-proof, pouring mocktails and dirty sodas — the first mocktail is complimentary at each event — so check the schedule before heading out.
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 Salt Lake City
Yes. Salt Lake City has 5 dedicated alcohol-free venues: 1833 Craft, Botanika, HK Brewing Collective, Post Office Place, Bottoms Up Mocktails. An additional 8 bars run extensive NA programs alongside their full bar.