Best Sober Date Night Spots in Albuquerque

Albuquerque's alcohol-free drinking grew up around Old Town and the Sawmill District, and its best room does not use the word mocktail at all. Lost Cultures Tea Bar builds cocktails out of tea — an Ancient Fashioned of pu'erh, sugar, orange bitters and wood smoke, a Smokey Rose on lapsang souchong with grapefruit, lemon and rose syrup, a chamomile paloma — and owner Ryan Brown says people thank him twice a week for providing a completely non-alcoholic space. UrbanMama505 brews kombucha and pours it as flights in a cement-block building on Central. Electric Playhouse serves Cocowatts and Nebula inside an immersive projection space that is genuinely all-ages. On the licensed side, TEN 3 sits at the top of the Sandia Peak tramway pouring On Mountain Thyme, Campo at Los Poblanos works from its own organic farm and lavender fields, and M'tucci's Bar Roma makes shrub mocktails on pineapple-rosemary and blueberry-raspberry. Two closures to note: Pureland Kava, the city's first full kava bar, is permanently closed, and the Luxe Lounge mocktail parlour on Old Town Plaza no longer returns a listing. For a date, the venues below balance a real NA program with an atmosphere that actually works for talking to someone.

8 date-friendly venues