Fleurish

Emily Tanski launched Fleurish in 2024 after exploring sober curiosity herself and discovering that Cleveland's dining and events scene offered a non-drinker almost nothing beyond soda and juice. The business is entirely alcohol-free. It provides zero-proof bartending for weddings, corporate functions and private parties, building bespoke menus of crafted non-alcoholic drinks and serving them with the presentation and equipment a full bar would get — the point being that nobody at the party is holding a plastic cup of cranberry juice while everyone else drinks from stemware. Because the service travels, it covers the whole metro rather than one neighbourhood, which matters in a region where the alcohol-free rooms are concentrated in two small clusters.

What makes Fleurish more than a caterer is its own programming. Santé is a sober supper club that pairs Cleveland chefs with non-alcoholic beverage pairings across several courses, staged at rotating venues around the city; Sober in the City is the fine-dining version of the same format, and both have drawn local coverage as a genuinely new fixture in the Cleveland food calendar rather than a Dry January novelty that disappears in February. Tanski's framing is that everyone deserves to raise a glass in style and nobody should feel left out of the toast, and the events are built for mixed tables — people not drinking and people who simply want the food — rather than as a recovery meeting with dinner attached. Her stated obstacle has been the stigma itself: the work is as much education as it is bartending.

Because Fleurish is mobile and event-driven there is no address to visit and no walk-in hours; dates are announced through Instagram and tickets sold per event. Its own domain is currently not resolving, so Instagram is the reliable channel. For anyone planning an alcohol-free wedding or party in Northeast Ohio, it is the established local operator.