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13 Austin Bars and Restaurants Serving Up Creative Nonalcoholic Cocktails

When you’re looking to go alcohol-free

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Sway’s drinking vinegars and sodas.
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Austin has its fair share of craft cocktail destinations and local breweries scattered around the city, but there’s a rising scene of nonalcoholic cocktails accessible to those who don’t partake.

While most restaurants and bars can serve up a pretty good mocktail these, days, this is Eater’s guide to the truly excellent mocktails that are sure to please in Austin. These creative nonalcoholic cocktails go beyond simple sodas or juices, ranging from drinking vinegar at Sway to an entirely spirit-free menu at Sans Bar. Leave without a hangover.

For other booze-free drinks, explore aguas frescas, coffee, and milkshakes. For boozy drinks, scope out the city’s essential bars and hot new ones. Plus, there are Austin’s iconic drinks. Be sure to keep an eye out for any pop-ups from Robert Bjorn Taylor, one of Austin’s most creative sober bartenders.

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Yard Bar

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This dog-friendly bar rotates its nonalcoholic mocktail menu seasonally. Mocktail offerings are made with Seedlip nonalcoholic spirits like the strawberry fields with strawberry, mint, and lime, and there’s also frozen lemonade and other soft drinks. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in areas.

L'Oca d'Oro

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This modern Italian restaurant in the growing Mueller development has house-made sodas (in seasonal flavors like pear-ginger or grapefruit-basil) and mocktails like the Take it Easy with watermelon and pepper shrubs, hellfire bitters, and herb salt. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Olamaie

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In the spirit of Southern hospitality, Olamaie has a few nonalcoholic options, like a grapefruit soda with a touch of Tabasco, or a mint spritz. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Served over crushed ice with sparkling water, the strawberry-basil drinking vinegar at higher-end Thai restaurant Sway is the perfect refresher to a flavorful meal. There are also teas, kombucha, and house-made sodas. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

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Sway’s drinking vinegars and sodas
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Sans Bar

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This entirely alcohol-free bar from founder Chris Marshall pops up every Friday in Central East Austin.

Skinny's Off Track Bar

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One annoying feature of mocktail menus is being charged the same price for a spirit-free drink. Not the case at sports bar Skinny’s, where the price is right for nonalcoholic options. Enjoy the game and use the extra funds for the excellent wings. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Pecan Square Café

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This refined restaurant serving seasonal fare near Clarksville can modify its entire cocktail menu using Slow Luck's nonalcoholic spirit. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Hillside Farmacy

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Hillside Farmacy offers house-made sodas with nonalcoholic, boozy, and CBD options. Options include a hot or cold Country Doctor, with ginger, fresh apple, and cinnamon; a coffee soda; and more. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

The Roosevelt Room

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The experts at essential cocktail bar Roosevelt Room offer zero-proof varieties as well, like the Na’groni with zero-proof gin and Giffard Bitter Aperitif sirop or the Castaway, a tropical concoction with mint, cream of coconut, lime, and ginger beer. There are indoor dine-in services.

The Castaway mocktail at Roosevelt Room
The Castaway mocktail at Roosevelt Room
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The Well

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This special-diet-friendly restaurant downtown can make a couple of its cocktails nonalcoholic with Seedlip spirits. That includes the 2nd Street Margarita and the Elixer, with charcoal maple syrup, lemon, apple, ginger, cucumber, and cayenne. Go during happy hour when cocktails are half off, or try the many juices, smoothies, and other drinks. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Launderette

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Launderette has a couple of rotating nonalcoholic options, like the Kickdrum with spiritless bourbon, lemon, and walnut bitters, as well as nonalcoholic beer. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Cosmic Coffee + Beer Garden

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With sprawling patio seating and some of Austin’s best food trucks, South Austin’s Cosmic is a great option to hang out for a spell. In addition to a wild variety of coffee drinks (orgeat matcha latte, anyone?), Cosmic also offers a frozen booze-free painkiller and aguas frescas. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Armadillo Den

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Most of the draft drinks at South Austin patio bar Armadillo Den — like a spicy rita and a paloma — come booze-free. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Yard Bar

This dog-friendly bar rotates its nonalcoholic mocktail menu seasonally. Mocktail offerings are made with Seedlip nonalcoholic spirits like the strawberry fields with strawberry, mint, and lime, and there’s also frozen lemonade and other soft drinks. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in areas.

L'Oca d'Oro

This modern Italian restaurant in the growing Mueller development has house-made sodas (in seasonal flavors like pear-ginger or grapefruit-basil) and mocktails like the Take it Easy with watermelon and pepper shrubs, hellfire bitters, and herb salt. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Olamaie

In the spirit of Southern hospitality, Olamaie has a few nonalcoholic options, like a grapefruit soda with a touch of Tabasco, or a mint spritz. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Sway

Served over crushed ice with sparkling water, the strawberry-basil drinking vinegar at higher-end Thai restaurant Sway is the perfect refresher to a flavorful meal. There are also teas, kombucha, and house-made sodas. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Tall glasses with liquids.
Sway’s drinking vinegars and sodas
Travis Hallmark/Sway/Facebook

Sans Bar

This entirely alcohol-free bar from founder Chris Marshall pops up every Friday in Central East Austin.

Skinny's Off Track Bar

One annoying feature of mocktail menus is being charged the same price for a spirit-free drink. Not the case at sports bar Skinny’s, where the price is right for nonalcoholic options. Enjoy the game and use the extra funds for the excellent wings. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Pecan Square Café

This refined restaurant serving seasonal fare near Clarksville can modify its entire cocktail menu using Slow Luck's nonalcoholic spirit. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Hillside Farmacy

Hillside Farmacy offers house-made sodas with nonalcoholic, boozy, and CBD options. Options include a hot or cold Country Doctor, with ginger, fresh apple, and cinnamon; a coffee soda; and more. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

The Roosevelt Room

The experts at essential cocktail bar Roosevelt Room offer zero-proof varieties as well, like the Na’groni with zero-proof gin and Giffard Bitter Aperitif sirop or the Castaway, a tropical concoction with mint, cream of coconut, lime, and ginger beer. There are indoor dine-in services.

The Castaway mocktail at Roosevelt Room
The Castaway mocktail at Roosevelt Room
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The Well

This special-diet-friendly restaurant downtown can make a couple of its cocktails nonalcoholic with Seedlip spirits. That includes the 2nd Street Margarita and the Elixer, with charcoal maple syrup, lemon, apple, ginger, cucumber, and cayenne. Go during happy hour when cocktails are half off, or try the many juices, smoothies, and other drinks. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Launderette

Launderette has a couple of rotating nonalcoholic options, like the Kickdrum with spiritless bourbon, lemon, and walnut bitters, as well as nonalcoholic beer. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Cosmic Coffee + Beer Garden

With sprawling patio seating and some of Austin’s best food trucks, South Austin’s Cosmic is a great option to hang out for a spell. In addition to a wild variety of coffee drinks (orgeat matcha latte, anyone?), Cosmic also offers a frozen booze-free painkiller and aguas frescas. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Armadillo Den

Most of the draft drinks at South Austin patio bar Armadillo Den — like a spicy rita and a paloma — come booze-free. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

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