Honey Elixir Bar

Honey Elixir Bar is a wellness-forward elixir lounge tucked into the art-covered alley behind Denver Central Market in RiNo, opened in 2019 by Jocasta Hanson. The bar's animating principle is 'rejuvenation over depletion' — by day, the menu runs cacao, jun (a fermented honey tea similar to kombucha but built on honey instead of sugar), kefirs, smoothies, matcha, and chai; by night, it shifts into apothecary cocktails and a full lineup of NA potions, all made with organic herbs, botanicals, raw honey in place of sugar, and adaptogens including lion's mane, chaga, reishi, mucuna pruriens, and Shatavari. The NA potions are unlike anything else in Denver: drinks like the Radiant Roots (turmeric, ginger, housemade jasmine rice milk) and the Soothed By Saffron (saffron, rose, cardamom, vanilla, honey, oat milk, Shatavari) come garnished with actual crystals — citrine, rose quartz, rainbow lemurian — and flowers including gardenia, pink yarrow, linden, and cherry blossom. The space is a retro velvet-forward lounge that doubles as a rotating gallery for Denver artists, with a retail section for local makers. Music event nights run every other Friday; regular service is 18+, music nights are 21+. Featured in Westword's January 2026 NA roundup and 5280 Magazine's restaurant guide.

“Tuck into the art-covered alley behind Denver Central Market to sample potions galore. Many from Honey Elixir Bar star a range of feel-good superfoods like raw cacao, functional fungi and medicinal herbs. Sample its jun, a fermented drink made from green tea and honey, or the Radiant Roots mocktail featuring turmeric, ginger and housemade jasmine rice milk.”

— Westword

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