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The Best Places for Mocktails Around Austin

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The mocktail has come a long way since the days of the humble (and distinctly childish) Shirley Temple. Today, most of Austin’s bars and restaurants can whip up beverages fit for drinkers and non-drinkers alike, but some spots go the extra mile with mocktails that delight tastebuds with a combination of carefully curated ingredients that go far beyond soft drinks or fizzy juices

From sipping vinegar at Sway to an entirely spirit-free menu at Sans Bar, here’s Eater’s guide to some of the bestAustin spots serving standout mocktails.

For other booze-free drinks, explore Eater’s maps on 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. And be sure to keep an eye out for any pop-ups from Robert Bjorn Taylor, one of Austin’s most creative sober bartenders, who often consults on bar programs.

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Yard Bar

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This Allandale dog park and bar bar rotates its nonalcoholic cocktail menu seasonally. Mocktail offerings are made with nonalcoholic spirits from the Seedlip beverage company. There’s the Strawberry Fields with strawberry and mint syrups and lime juices; the Burnt Orange Blast with orange juice, soda, and vanilla syrup; and there’s also boozeless beers, frozen lemonade, and other soft drinks. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in areas.

Vigilante

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This board game gastropub is known for its cocktails, but it also has a respectable mocktail menu, with offerings like the Bird of Paradise, made with a non-alcoholic spirit, pomegranate, lime juice, and agave, all shaken with sage ice cubes. Or, the appropriately nerdily-named Why’s the Rum Gone, also infused with a non-alcoholic spirit, brown sugar cinnamon simple syrup, lemon citrus, and pomegranate syrup. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

L'Oca d'Oro

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This modern Italian restaurant in the Mueller development kicks up its soda offerings by offering homemade pop in seasonal flavors like basil-lime and orange cream, along with the option to add zero-proof gin as a mixer. But L’Oca crafts a selection of mocktails, too, like its School Night Spritz, a combination of grapefruit-mint cordial, basil, mint, lime, and bubbles. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Bobo's Snack Bar

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With eight items in total, plus a nonalcoholic beer, Bobo’s Snack Bar offers one of the heftiest mocktail or “knock-tail” menus around. Find typical riffs on margaritas, sangrias, and Moscow mules, plus fun additions, like the passion fruit Mockarita, made with Slow Luck non-alcoholic spirits, Liber & Co. passion fruit syrup, and housemade agave-jalapeno-lime juice, and the creamy Coconut Lime Fizz, a mix of coconut lime syrup, Bubb’s Seltzer, and half and half or oat milk creamer topped with whipped cream. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

The Butterfly Bar

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The fun Cherrywood bar’s nonalcoholic cocktails include the Smell the Roses made with actual rose buds, thyme, chamomile, and grapefruit; and the Aphrodite’s Kiss with ginger beer, pomegranate, pineapple and lime. The alcohol-free drinks would pair well with food from on-site Italian food truck Patrizi’s. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in areas.

The interior of a bar that’s extremely dark shows the bar back, hanging lights, and bottles of liquor. The Butterfly Bar

The non-alcoholic drinks at the higher-end West Lake Hills Thai restaurant are the perfect refresher to a flavorful meal. House-made drinking vinegars, offered in flavors like strawberry-basil and mint-lychee, are served over crushed ice with sparkling water, and that’s just the tipping point. Sway also pours up teas, kombucha, and homemade sodas. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

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Sway’s drinking vinegars and sodas
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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 this Central East Austin sports bar, 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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Any cocktail on the menu can be modified at this refined Clarksville New American restaurant, which replaces alcohol with Slow Luck’s non-alcoholic spirit, but it also boasts a menu of specialty mocktails. Try the espresso martini, made with Pathfinder Hemp and Root, Proud Marry espresso, and cherry syrup. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Sans Bar

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This entirely alcohol-free bar from founder Chris Marshall pops up every Friday at downtown fitness center Texas Wellness Oasis. There are indoor dine-in services.

Three customers sit at a bar with a navy blue tile on the bottom and an exposed brick wall behind. Sans Bar

Hillside Farmacy

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The Central East Austin seasonal restaurant offers house-made sodas with nonalcoholic, boozy, and CBD options. There’s the 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 the essential downtown cocktail bar 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.

A brown-ish orange cocktail sits on the edge of a table, garnished with mint. The Roosevelt Room

The Well

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This special-diet-friendly restaurant downtown offers a bunch of nonalcoholic cocktails. There’s the Freshly Minted made with booze-less spirit Aplos’s Calme. Others include the Matcha Fizz mixed with coconut, lemon juice, vanilla-agave, and basil, and the Pillow Talk with a strawberry-hibiscus water base, coconut cream, rose, a vanilla-cinnamon-infused honey, and aquafaba. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Two people sit at a white board table with food and two colorful cocktails in front of them. The Well

Uptown Sports Club

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Beverage director Ericka Predmore knows her cocktails — both boozy and non-alcoholic. On the menu here are the Pretty Fly for a Chai Guy, with Ritual whiskey alternative, Seedlip, and Wilderton citrus blend, and chai-spiced carrot simple syrup. The Bitter Believe It, made with booze-less Ritual gin, Wilderton citrus, and aromatic and bittersweet aperitivos, is topped with Rambler for a fizzy finish. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

The interior of a bar has exposed brick walls and a bar back, with a neon sign reading “Cocktails” in red. Nick Simonite

Arlo Grey

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Tour each of the Line Hotel’s three restaurants for a different mocktail experience this Dry January. At Arlo Grey, the Deep Orchard mocktail offers a sweet-and-vinegary concoction with fig and balsamic reduction and soda. At F6, the hotel’s rooftop bar, you can partake in the Velveteen Rabbit, with carrot juice, egg white, pineapple, and lemon. Cantero, a sotol-focused bar on the property, offers a mocktail called the Chamomile Haze, a cannabis-infused sip made with grapefruit, chamomile, and Texas Breeze CBD soda. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Kinda Tropical

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This casual East Austin bar has a strong showing of non-alcoholic brunch drinks, such as the jalapeno pineapple margarita, made with Ritual tequila, orange juice, pineapple, jalapeno, lime, and tajin, and the booze-free Hopwater Michelada made with Lagunitas non-alcoholic hopwater beer. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in areas.

Two women sit at a table in a bar and raise their glasses in a cheers. Kinda Tropical

Holiday

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Eater Austin’s best new bar of 2023 carries one of the best mocktail selections in the city. The Govalle bar’s nonalcoholic options include the Hu-No Spritz, made with kiwi, nonalcoholic Floreale vermouth, lemon, and elderflower tonic; and the Fountain of Youth, with Seedlip Garden, hibiscus tea, rosemary, grapefruit, and lime. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

A light and airy bar with white walls has black and light wood furniture and cement floors. Holiday

For this wine-focused Mediterranean restaurant, Ezov’s herbaceous and fruity mocktails are actually the only mixed drinks on the menu. Consider the Good Intentions mocktail, made with Tennyson non-alcoholic spirit, strawberry, rose, and hibiscus; the Third Chai — lemongrass masala, black pepper, and pineapple; or keep it simple with a glass of its non-alcoholic white wine. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Equipment Room

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Mixologist Robert Bjorn Taylor developed the cocktail menu at the hi-fi bar within the Hotel Magdalena in Travis Heights, which includes a very thoughtful nonalcoholic section. The Multi-Love is made with Ritual gin, Lyre’s Rosso aperitif, Bonbuz Slowburn, Giffard aperitif, Tennyson Black Ginger, Pathfinder, blood orange, and orange oil; the Million Reasons uses Odd Bird Blanc de Blanc, Giffard Elderflower, strawberry balsamic shrub, lemon, and soda; and the Japanese-inspired Underdog combines Pear Cinnamon Amazake with Seedlip Spice 94, yuzu, shiso tincture, and blue lotus flower. There are indoor dine-in services.

Launderette

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In addition to its robust cocktail, this ritzy and highly lauded East Austin cafe offers three reasonably priced mocktails, including a spirit-less version of the MPC, a favorite made with Kentucky 74, honey, ginger, lemon, ginger beer, and bitters. Perk up with the No Wave — Lyre’s Aperitif Rosso & Orange, grapefruit oleo, lime, and tonic water, or channel Caribbean vibes with Easy Jungle, which features Ritual rum alternative, orgeat, pineapple, lime, grapefruit, and soda. There are indoor dine-in services.

Diners sit outside on a patio that’s painted white with green and white striped umbrellas. Launderette

Cosmic Coffee + Beer Garden

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With sprawling patio seating and some of Austin’s best food trucks, the Dawson neighborhood cafe and beer garden 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 aguas frescas and creative mocktails, like the Cold Fashioned, a nonalcoholic coffee-Old Fashioned fusion with Oaked Bourbon Vanilla Super Cold Brew, orange oil, and spiced cherry bitters served on the rocks. Find a similar menu at its East Austin location. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Meanwhile Brewing

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For those who want the quintessential Austin brewery experience without the alcohol, this South Austin brewery and taproom has a mocktail menu and standout agua fresca. The rosemary and hibiscus agua fresca offers a refreshing, flora beverage featuring blood orange, lemon, and mint; while the yuzu and candied ginger, offers a zing of lemongrass, lemon, mint foam, and nutmeg. Bargoers can also consider the Palmer Royale —  black tea, yuzu, lemongrass, and candied ginger. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Armadillo Den

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Most of the draft drinks at the far south Austin patio bar come booze-free, making it perfect for anyone abstaining from alcohol. Consider the inventive Fords Ranch Water, with Thai basil sparkling water, cucumber, and lemon, or the Frescadillo Paloma, with pink and white grapefruit, lime, and sea salt. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

A group sits outside at a picnic table at a bar, with a Texas flag in the background. A woman in the foreground holds the collar of a golden lab. Armadillo Den

Yard Bar

This Allandale dog park and bar bar rotates its nonalcoholic cocktail menu seasonally. Mocktail offerings are made with nonalcoholic spirits from the Seedlip beverage company. There’s the Strawberry Fields with strawberry and mint syrups and lime juices; the Burnt Orange Blast with orange juice, soda, and vanilla syrup; and there’s also boozeless beers, frozen lemonade, and other soft drinks. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in areas.

Vigilante

This board game gastropub is known for its cocktails, but it also has a respectable mocktail menu, with offerings like the Bird of Paradise, made with a non-alcoholic spirit, pomegranate, lime juice, and agave, all shaken with sage ice cubes. Or, the appropriately nerdily-named Why’s the Rum Gone, also infused with a non-alcoholic spirit, brown sugar cinnamon simple syrup, lemon citrus, and pomegranate syrup. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

L'Oca d'Oro

This modern Italian restaurant in the Mueller development kicks up its soda offerings by offering homemade pop in seasonal flavors like basil-lime and orange cream, along with the option to add zero-proof gin as a mixer. But L’Oca crafts a selection of mocktails, too, like its School Night Spritz, a combination of grapefruit-mint cordial, basil, mint, lime, and bubbles. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Bobo's Snack Bar

With eight items in total, plus a nonalcoholic beer, Bobo’s Snack Bar offers one of the heftiest mocktail or “knock-tail” menus around. Find typical riffs on margaritas, sangrias, and Moscow mules, plus fun additions, like the passion fruit Mockarita, made with Slow Luck non-alcoholic spirits, Liber & Co. passion fruit syrup, and housemade agave-jalapeno-lime juice, and the creamy Coconut Lime Fizz, a mix of coconut lime syrup, Bubb’s Seltzer, and half and half or oat milk creamer topped with whipped cream. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

The Butterfly Bar

The fun Cherrywood bar’s nonalcoholic cocktails include the Smell the Roses made with actual rose buds, thyme, chamomile, and grapefruit; and the Aphrodite’s Kiss with ginger beer, pomegranate, pineapple and lime. The alcohol-free drinks would pair well with food from on-site Italian food truck Patrizi’s. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in areas.

The interior of a bar that’s extremely dark shows the bar back, hanging lights, and bottles of liquor. The Butterfly Bar

Sway

The non-alcoholic drinks at the higher-end West Lake Hills Thai restaurant are the perfect refresher to a flavorful meal. House-made drinking vinegars, offered in flavors like strawberry-basil and mint-lychee, are served over crushed ice with sparkling water, and that’s just the tipping point. Sway also pours up teas, kombucha, and homemade sodas. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

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

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 this Central East Austin sports bar, 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

Any cocktail on the menu can be modified at this refined Clarksville New American restaurant, which replaces alcohol with Slow Luck’s non-alcoholic spirit, but it also boasts a menu of specialty mocktails. Try the espresso martini, made with Pathfinder Hemp and Root, Proud Marry espresso, and cherry syrup. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Sans Bar

This entirely alcohol-free bar from founder Chris Marshall pops up every Friday at downtown fitness center Texas Wellness Oasis. There are indoor dine-in services.

Three customers sit at a bar with a navy blue tile on the bottom and an exposed brick wall behind. Sans Bar

Hillside Farmacy

The Central East Austin seasonal restaurant offers house-made sodas with nonalcoholic, boozy, and CBD options. There’s the 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 the essential downtown cocktail bar 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.

A brown-ish orange cocktail sits on the edge of a table, garnished with mint. The Roosevelt Room

The Well

This special-diet-friendly restaurant downtown offers a bunch of nonalcoholic cocktails. There’s the Freshly Minted made with booze-less spirit Aplos’s Calme. Others include the Matcha Fizz mixed with coconut, lemon juice, vanilla-agave, and basil, and the Pillow Talk with a strawberry-hibiscus water base, coconut cream, rose, a vanilla-cinnamon-infused honey, and aquafaba. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Two people sit at a white board table with food and two colorful cocktails in front of them. The Well

Uptown Sports Club

Beverage director Ericka Predmore knows her cocktails — both boozy and non-alcoholic. On the menu here are the Pretty Fly for a Chai Guy, with Ritual whiskey alternative, Seedlip, and Wilderton citrus blend, and chai-spiced carrot simple syrup. The Bitter Believe It, made with booze-less Ritual gin, Wilderton citrus, and aromatic and bittersweet aperitivos, is topped with Rambler for a fizzy finish. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

The interior of a bar has exposed brick walls and a bar back, with a neon sign reading “Cocktails” in red. Nick Simonite

Arlo Grey

Tour each of the Line Hotel’s three restaurants for a different mocktail experience this Dry January. At Arlo Grey, the Deep Orchard mocktail offers a sweet-and-vinegary concoction with fig and balsamic reduction and soda. At F6, the hotel’s rooftop bar, you can partake in the Velveteen Rabbit, with carrot juice, egg white, pineapple, and lemon. Cantero, a sotol-focused bar on the property, offers a mocktail called the Chamomile Haze, a cannabis-infused sip made with grapefruit, chamomile, and Texas Breeze CBD soda. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Kinda Tropical

This casual East Austin bar has a strong showing of non-alcoholic brunch drinks, such as the jalapeno pineapple margarita, made with Ritual tequila, orange juice, pineapple, jalapeno, lime, and tajin, and the booze-free Hopwater Michelada made with Lagunitas non-alcoholic hopwater beer. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in areas.

Two women sit at a table in a bar and raise their glasses in a cheers. Kinda Tropical

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Holiday

Eater Austin’s best new bar of 2023 carries one of the best mocktail selections in the city. The Govalle bar’s nonalcoholic options include the Hu-No Spritz, made with kiwi, nonalcoholic Floreale vermouth, lemon, and elderflower tonic; and the Fountain of Youth, with Seedlip Garden, hibiscus tea, rosemary, grapefruit, and lime. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

A light and airy bar with white walls has black and light wood furniture and cement floors. Holiday

Ezov

For this wine-focused Mediterranean restaurant, Ezov’s herbaceous and fruity mocktails are actually the only mixed drinks on the menu. Consider the Good Intentions mocktail, made with Tennyson non-alcoholic spirit, strawberry, rose, and hibiscus; the Third Chai — lemongrass masala, black pepper, and pineapple; or keep it simple with a glass of its non-alcoholic white wine. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Equipment Room

Mixologist Robert Bjorn Taylor developed the cocktail menu at the hi-fi bar within the Hotel Magdalena in Travis Heights, which includes a very thoughtful nonalcoholic section. The Multi-Love is made with Ritual gin, Lyre’s Rosso aperitif, Bonbuz Slowburn, Giffard aperitif, Tennyson Black Ginger, Pathfinder, blood orange, and orange oil; the Million Reasons uses Odd Bird Blanc de Blanc, Giffard Elderflower, strawberry balsamic shrub, lemon, and soda; and the Japanese-inspired Underdog combines Pear Cinnamon Amazake with Seedlip Spice 94, yuzu, shiso tincture, and blue lotus flower. There are indoor dine-in services.

Launderette

In addition to its robust cocktail, this ritzy and highly lauded East Austin cafe offers three reasonably priced mocktails, including a spirit-less version of the MPC, a favorite made with Kentucky 74, honey, ginger, lemon, ginger beer, and bitters. Perk up with the No Wave — Lyre’s Aperitif Rosso & Orange, grapefruit oleo, lime, and tonic water, or channel Caribbean vibes with Easy Jungle, which features Ritual rum alternative, orgeat, pineapple, lime, grapefruit, and soda. There are indoor dine-in services.

Diners sit outside on a patio that’s painted white with green and white striped umbrellas. Launderette

Cosmic Coffee + Beer Garden

With sprawling patio seating and some of Austin’s best food trucks, the Dawson neighborhood cafe and beer garden 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 aguas frescas and creative mocktails, like the Cold Fashioned, a nonalcoholic coffee-Old Fashioned fusion with Oaked Bourbon Vanilla Super Cold Brew, orange oil, and spiced cherry bitters served on the rocks. Find a similar menu at its East Austin location. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Meanwhile Brewing

For those who want the quintessential Austin brewery experience without the alcohol, this South Austin brewery and taproom has a mocktail menu and standout agua fresca. The rosemary and hibiscus agua fresca offers a refreshing, flora beverage featuring blood orange, lemon, and mint; while the yuzu and candied ginger, offers a zing of lemongrass, lemon, mint foam, and nutmeg. Bargoers can also consider the Palmer Royale —  black tea, yuzu, lemongrass, and candied ginger. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Armadillo Den

Most of the draft drinks at the far south Austin patio bar come booze-free, making it perfect for anyone abstaining from alcohol. Consider the inventive Fords Ranch Water, with Thai basil sparkling water, cucumber, and lemon, or the Frescadillo Paloma, with pink and white grapefruit, lime, and sea salt. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

A group sits outside at a picnic table at a bar, with a Texas flag in the background. A woman in the foreground holds the collar of a golden lab. Armadillo Den

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