ADRIFT Mare

ADRIFT Mare sits on the 25th floor of Hotel AKA Brickell, a Mediterranean restaurant and cocktail bar from Michelin-starred chef David Myers with terrace views over Biscayne Bay. The kitchen pulls from the French Riviera, the Balearics, Italian produce, Levantine hospitality and the Greek isles, and serves breakfast, lunch and dinner daily rather than only in the evening.

The bar programme is the reason it earns its place. It was built by Moe Aljaff and Juliette Larrouy, bartenders whose backgrounds include Himkok in Oslo and Two Schmucks in Barcelona — both rooms that have appeared on the World's 50 Best Bars list. Bartenders from that tier treat a zero-proof drink as a construction problem rather than an inconvenience, and it shows in the approach: the alcohol-free cocktails lean on spice, citrus and freshness rather than sugar, with Chai Life and Palm Paradise the named builds, alongside Lyre's-based non-alcoholic aperitivo classics that mirror the bar's spritz-forward sensibility.

Spritz-forward matters more than it sounds on a Miami rooftop. The spritz is the one cocktail category that translates almost perfectly without alcohol — it is built on bitterness, dilution and bubbles rather than on spirit weight — so a bar whose house style is already spritzes has a structural advantage in making a good zero-proof list.

Resident Magazine featured the mocktails in its Dry January round-up, noting that the restaurant approaches zero-proof drinking with Mediterranean clarity.

It is a polished hotel rooftop for a sit-down meal with credible non-alcoholic choices, not a dedicated NA bar — but the all-day service makes it usable at breakfast and lunch as well as for an evening. Ask what the bar team can build off-menu; with backgrounds like theirs, the printed zero-proof list understates what is possible.