Best Sober Date Night Spots in Indianapolis

Indianapolis had a dedicated alcohol-free bar and lost it. Memento Zero Proof — billed as Indiana's first — opened in Fishers in October 2023 and closed permanently about a year later after its owners could not agree new lease terms; several city guides still list it. So the honest picture in 2026 is that the metro has no alcohol-free cocktail bar, and what it has instead is unusually good depth inside ordinary bars plus a scattered set of fully alcohol-free rooms. The retail anchor is Orangily, opened in Carmel in 2022 by sisters Andrea Simpson and Kristin Patrick as Loren's Alcohol-Free Beverages, which added a second shop on East 54th Street in SoBro in March 2025 — the only non-alcoholic bottle shop inside Marion County. Massachusetts Avenue carries the zero-proof density: The Ball & Biscuit, Indiana's original craft cocktail bar since 2010, prints seven named non-alcoholic drinks including a Spritz AF on Lyre's and Fre; The Fountain Room, the Wisconsin-style supper club in the Bottleworks District, runs a printed "No ABV" section; Sundry & Vice builds Seedlip Grove into 24 Carrot Magic; and BODHI, women-owned and family-run, layers Lyre's and Fre Rosé into the Water Lily Dessert. Fountain Square is the other pocket worth walking: The Inferno Room, Ed Rudisell's 2018 tiki bar, prints a MOCKTAILS section of layered $10 builds three blocks from Nine Lives, the alcohol-free cat café Kelley Niiyama has run since 2020. Elsewhere, Sun King brews its own N/A Sunlight Cream Ale at the Cole-Noble taproom, SKOSH in Garfield Park calls itself Indy's first SlowBar and is alcohol-free throughout, and Seedlip turns up in four venues across the city. The Mood in Fishers is the metro's only kava lounge — no alcohol, but kava is psychoactive and the same counter sells hemp-derived THC, which is worth knowing before you go. For a date, the venues below balance a real NA program with an atmosphere that actually works for talking to someone.

11 date-friendly venues