Honey Elixir Bar

Honey Elixir Bar opened in 2019 in the art-covered alley behind Denver Central Market on Walnut Street in RiNo, founded by Jocasta Hanson around a stated operating principle of rejuvenation over depletion. The room is a velvet-heavy retro lounge that doubles as a rotating gallery for Denver artists, with a small retail section given over to local makers; standard service is 18+, and the music events that run every other Friday are 21+. The daytime menu is built on cacao, jun, kefirs, smoothies, matcha and chai. Jun is the house signature: a fermented tea closer to kombucha than to sweetened iced tea, but built on raw honey instead of cane sugar and cultured on green tea. After dark the bar shifts into what it calls potions, an apothecary list assembled from organic herbs, botanicals, raw honey in place of refined sugar, and adaptogens including lion's mane, chaga, reishi, mucuna pruriens and shatavari. Drinks come garnished with actual crystals, among them citrine, rose quartz and rainbow lemurian, and with edible flowers such as gardenia, pink yarrow, linden and cherry blossom.

The alcohol-free potions are the main event rather than a side list, and they carry the same construction and pricing as everything else on the menu. Radiant Roots ($12) blends turmeric, ginger, house-made jasmine rice milk, oat milk, honey and vanilla; Love Spell ($13) layers hibiscus, blueberry, star anise, shatavari, damiana, rose and violette; Cooling Embers ($16) starts from organic cherry-apple juice, chamomile and lemon balm and is layered with fennel, saffron, black cohosh and ashwagandha root; Chocolit ($16) is a cacao drink built with reishi, lion's mane, chaga, mucuna pruriens, honey, sea salt and MCT oil, with orange, rose or peppermint available as a dollar add-on. Rose of Venus ($14) uses a non-alcoholic gin and NOVA non-alcoholic rose alongside hibiscus simple syrup, ginger honey and lime. A rotating Honey Cream Soda ($12) and ceremonial-grade Peruvian cacao round out the list. Westword named the bar in its January 1, 2026 round-up of local non-alcoholic options, singling out the jun and the Radiant Roots. A Press Seltzer ($9) and ceremonial-grade Peruvian cacao in micro and macro pours ($12 and $15) sit alongside them, and the cacao and Chocolit both take orange, rose or peppermint add-ons for a dollar. The bar is closed Mondays and runs to midnight Tuesday through Saturday, which puts it among the few genuinely late alcohol-free rooms in the neighbourhood.