Best Sober Date Night Spots in Greenville

Greenville's alcohol-free drinking is concentrated in a few walkable blocks of South Main and the West End, and the bars there write it into the menu rather than leaving it to be asked for. Juniper, the rooftop above Paloma, lists its drinks under a Zero Proof heading — a Juice Bomb of watermelon shrub, black sesame seed syrup, lemon, grapefruit and grapefruit soda, a Root For Me on blackberry sauce, ginger and lime cordial, a Kiwi Crush — all at the same $10. Bar Margaret in the Village of West Greenville runs a section headed Don't Call Them Mocktails, built on non-alcoholic gin and bourbon. Group Therapy Pub & Playground pours Spiritless bourbon into a Not Your Grandpa's Old Fashioned. The Captain, at Hotel Hartness, gives mocktails a full page of its menu, and UP on the Roof keeps a Walk the Line of lemon and pink grapefruit juice, blackberry syrup and club soda as a staple rather than a special. The one fully alcohol-free room is The Kava Konnection on Wade Hampton Boulevard, open to midnight most nights and 2am at weekends. Two caveats worth carrying: Herban Spirits, billed as Greenville's first non-alcoholic bottle shop, has not opened yet, and Urban Wren, recommended in current mocktail round-ups, is permanently closed. 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