The Charles

The Charles opened in the Design District in 2018 and has stayed one of the harder Dallas reservations to get — a dim, loud, Italian-leaning room that treats dinner as an event. Its non-alcoholic drinks appear under a printed Mocktails heading on the Summer 2026 menu, refreshed in late July.

Three builds carry it. The Blossom Spritz is the most complete drink of the set, combining cherry blossom and grapefruit with Fre sparkling to give it length and lift. The Nada Colada handles the creamy tropical end and the Blueberry di Capri the fruit-forward one. None uses a non-alcoholic distillate, which puts the list a step below the Ritual and Lyre's programmes elsewhere in this guide — but they are built drinks, printed under their own heading, in a restaurant where the wine list is the main event.

The more quietly useful entry is the separate N/A Sparkling listing: Fre Brut, offered by the glass and by the bottle. At a table ordering wine, a bottle a non-drinker can actually share changes the evening more than a single cocktail does. Worth knowing before you arrive from older coverage: the Lavender Limonata, Peary Freshe and Honey Please that appear in press write-ups have since come off the menu.