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Chef Ann Ahmed’s Southwest Minneapolis Laotian destination is one of the best bets for mocktails in the city. With four mocktails on the menu, each one is mixed to perfection and will invoke a resort vacation with each sip. Flavors like cucumber, calamansi, pineapple and ginger are the norm here.

Owamni

This much-lauded eatery emphasizing indigenous flavors and eschewing colonial foods—like dairy, wheat flour, cane sugar, beef, chicken, and pork—also takes a trailblazing stance with its zero-proof drink menu. Featuring mocktails with native ingredients like balsam fir, aronia berry, sumac, and cinchona bark, Indigenous tea blends, and sweet-tart switchels, there’s definitely something new to discover. Recently winning the intensely competitive “Best New Restaurant” category at the James Beard Awards, Owamni is definitely a must-visit for lovers of good food and great zero-proof sips.

Italian Eatery

A short stroll from Lake Nokomis on Minnehaha Parkway, Italian Eatery features a lovely seasonal patio that offers a perfect perch for sipping mocktails al fresco. Most notable is the Senza Spritz made with blood orange, soda water, bitter apertivo and N/A prosecco. For something on the bitter side, try the St. Agrestis Phony Negroni.

Stanley’s Northeast Bar Room

If pub grub is more your style, head to Stanley’s for burgers, nachos, and reubens to go with your mocktails. Grab a Blood Orange Mock Mule with blood orange, lime juice and ginger beer in that oh-so-classic copper mule mug or a NAz Rita with Seedlip Grove 42, agave syrup, lime juice and a salt rim.

Local tip: enjoy your mocktail with your four-legged best friend on Stanley’s year-round dog friendly paw-tio.

Umbra

The onsite restaurant of Minneapolis boutique Canopy Hotel by Hilton, Umbra offers an industrial-chic space, seasonal plates featuring local meat, cheese, and produce, a full bar, and hand-crafted non-alcoholic “faux-tails.”

Note: Umbra’s mocktails are only available from 2pm through close.

Spoon & Stable

James Beard Award-winning chef Gavin Kaysen’s chic North Loop dining room melds French cuisine and modern Midwestern fare. Every picture-perfect plate would pair beautifully with one of bar manager Jessi Pollak’s four mocktails.

Martina

Blending Argentine and Italian flavors on plates coming out of the kitchen, this upscale Linden Hills destination leans toward the tropics and Southeast Asia on its mocktail menu. Picture elixirs blending passion fruit, mango, and lime, a lemongrass-forward bubbly with ginger, galangal, and lemon verbena, and the masala chai-based drink with aromatic bitters.

Hai Hai

Few Minneapolis restaurants can make you feel like you’re on a tropical vacation despite the weather outside, but Hai Hai delivers with Chef Christina Nguyen’s spin on Southeast Asian street food fare. The small but mighty trio of spirit-free mocktails brings the freshness to the drink menu, too—order up the Mot (with lychee and housemade jackfruit cordial), the Hai (with housemade rhubarb-strawberry-ginger shrub), or the Ba (with housemade guava-grapefruit cordial) to sip alongside your beef laab lettuce wraps and water fern cakes.

Cabana Club

The star of the show at the Cabana Club is its patio — a wrap around porch overlooking the shaded and historic cobblestoned Main Street. Make this experience even better with a chilled mocktail in hand, named after a popular vacation destination. The Miami is a N/A frozen piña colada, the Shanghai features Aplos Arise, grapefruit, lime and rose water, and if you order the Havana you'll be treated to refreshing strawberry, lime, mint and soda water.

Local tip: Patio seating is available on a first come, first served basis.

Gai Noi

For more mocktails with tropical flair, visit Gai Noi, another Laotian-inspired restaurant from Chef Ann Ahmed. Between the Guava Mule, Star Boi (star fruit elixir and citrus oil), Dole Whip (pineapple and coconut cream), Pineapple Butterfly (a pineapple based cocktail with butterfly pea), and the Lemongrass Palmer it'll be difficult to choose!

Earl Giles

This eclectic spot is named after Earl Giles, an apothecary owner (and distant relative of co-owner Jeff Erkkila) who flew a plane around North America to deliver liquor disguised as medicine during Prohibition. Packed with living plants and a dizzying array of drinks, a visit to Earl Giles is a bit like medicine itself. Order the NA Old Fashioned or the Paez, which features yerba mate, jasmine, pineapple and coconut water.

Market at Malcolm Yards

The Market at Malcolm Yards is known for its enjoyable food vendors and pour-your-own tap wall, but the Boxcar Bar shouldn't be skipped. The mocktail menu is filled with crafted creations. Try the Grilled Peach No Fashioned for the taste of caramelized peaches or the Market "No" Jito for a light sipper.

Sidebar at Surdyks

Craving a "girl dinner" and an Instagrammable mocktail? Head to the back corner of Surdyk's Liquor & Cheese Shop and you'll find Sidebar. First, the snacks here are non-negotiable. Try the cheese curds & hot honey, deviled eggs, or the chips & caviar for something fancy. And the mocktails here are the real deal. Order the Prince-inspired The Purple One (blueberry-poblano shrub, ginger, lime, grapefruit and N/A blanco tequila) or the Mango is Life (mango, orange, lemon, grapefruit and valentine elderflower vodka).

Porzana

This modern Argentinian steak house from Chef Daniel del Prado serves everything from decadent pastas to tuna crudo and the star of the show: wood-fired wagyu steaks. The mocktails here are unique and will compliment your meal incredibly well. Try the Sanguino, which features blood orange, white chocolate, rhubarb, elderflower, lime and sparkling tea, or the creamy Serrata, which pairs blackberry, hibiscus, beet and lemon with Greek yogurt.

Dario

Tucked into a quiet corner of the North Loop, Dario is known for its handmade pastas, seasonal vegetables, and craft bar program. The restaurant feels both edgy and elegant with its velvet booths and great playlists. Dario's spirit-free cocktail list is expansive, with six rotation options. The New Age Outlaw (Dhos blanco tequila free, spritz del conte and lime) and No. 75 (ISH London Botanical, Oddbird Blanc de Blanc and lemon) are customer favorites.

Stargazer

Travel to another galaxy in the heart of Northeast Minneapolis at Stargazer. Order something from the out-of-this-world food menu and sip expertly crafted mocktails (created by an award-winning cocktail master). The spirit-free sector of the menu walks you through each drink's elements and vibe. For example, the Purple Phase is functional and calming, while the It Was All Yellow is bright and refreshing. Don't forget to snap a pic under the stars!