The Boneyard

The Boneyard sits on East Appleway in Greenacres, out in Spokane Valley rather than downtown, and it was opened by a mixologist rather than a restaurateur — which shows in the drinks and in one structural decision that puts it in this guide.

Every mixed drink in the room, with alcohol or without, is built on Side Hustle Syrups, the craft simple-syrup line the owner produces. That is unusual and it matters. The commonest failure in a mocktail is that it is assembled from different, worse components than the cocktails: bottled mixers, canned juice, a splash of soda. When the syrups are the house product and the bar's own business, the alcohol-free drinks are made from the identical pantry — the only difference is the absence of the spirit. The mocktail list reflects that, with a non-alcoholic Spokane Mule, an Old Fashioned build and a White Linen sitting alongside cocktails like the Hello Clarice, a whiskey sour clarified with milk.

The second thing worth knowing is that The Boneyard is an all-ages lounge. Spokane Valley is a suburban, family-heavy part of the metro, and an all-ages craft cocktail bar means a group does not have to split itself by who is drinking or who is old enough. For readers with kids, or for a designated driver who would rather not be the person nursing a Coke in a 21-plus room, that changes what an evening out can look like.

The trade-off is the schedule. The bar opens Wednesday through Saturday only, 3pm to 9pm, and closes Sunday through Tuesday — early hours by cocktail-bar standards, which suits an all-ages room but rules out a late night. It is roughly a fifteen-minute drive east of downtown Spokane.

One more thing worth understanding about the syrup arrangement, because it is the whole argument for this listing. A bar that buys its mixers is limited to what a distributor stocks, and the alcohol-free versions of those products are almost always the cheapest line. A bar that manufactures its own syrups has no such constraint and no cost incentive to cut corners on the drinks with no spirit in them, because the expensive ingredient was never the spirit. That is why owner-produced house components are the single most reliable signal this directory has found for a mocktail list that is worth ordering from.