With the rise in popularity, many bars across metro Detroit have been adding non-alcoholic drinks to their menu, allowing people to try something unique and delicious without alcohol.
If you’re partaking in Dry January or trying to limit your alcohol this month or throughout the year, here are some of the best places in metro Detroit to grab a mocktail. Menus are constantly changing and many spots have special seasonal offerings, so be sure to check out their website or Instagram page for the latest deets.
Wright and Co.
The bar and restaurant located on the second floor of a historic building in Downtown Detroit has a wide variety of cocktails, but also a dedicated area for mocktails.
On the menu are five non-alcoholic cocktails. The “Oxford Comma” has cold brew coffee, toasted coconut, and non-alcoholic old-fashioned bitters. You could also try the “Palm Grove” which has Seedlip Grove, toasted coconut, passionfruit, pineapple, and lime.
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The Monarch Club
Located at the top of the Metropolitan Building in Downtown Detroit, The Monarch Club offers scenic views and great, flavorful drinks. There are three different mocktails to try.
The St. Croix Crush has pineapple, soda, lime, vanilla, cola syrup, and cream.
The Root Chakra has lemon, ginger, lavender, and tonic water, and the Coco Lassi has mango, cream of coconut, turmeric, sugar water, and lime juice.
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Castalia at Sfumato
Castalia is an experimental cocktail bar in Midtown Detroit that focuses “on the harmony between flavor and fragrance.”
They have eight different mocktails on the menu with a variety of flavors. The “Sleepless Night” has barley, orris, and genetian roots, grains of paradise, snow pea, lemon verbena, and honey.
The “Spun Out of Control” has ginger, pine, turmeric, honey, soda, and lemon, or "The Best Policy” has cinnamon, orange, lemon, turbinado, star anise, barley, orris and gentian roots, and grains of paradise.
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Ivy Kitchen and Cocktails
Tucked in a building along Jefferson Ave., Ivy Kitchen and Cocktails has great drinks for both brunch and dinner.
Their mocktails include a “Shirley Ginger” which is ginger beer, club soda, lime juice, and grenadine, or the “Rosemary Blueberry Smash” which has blueberries, lemonade, sparking mineral water, and a rosemary sprig.
Dragonfly
In Detroit’s Milwaukee-Junction Neighborhood, the cocktail bar Dragonfly has been serving up the non-alcoholic cocktails that have been served up at other areas in Detroit.
“If you’re sober, or if you just don’t feel like imbibing but still want to hang out with friends and drink tasty drinks, come and see us,” they wrote on Instagram. “From day one, we’ve dedicated a portion of our menu to non-alcoholic cocktails.”
Grey Ghost
Grey Ghost is known for its delicious food and drinks, but the cocktail menu also has a few mocktails for people to try.
The “House Rock & Rye” has cherry, vanilla, cinnamon, and soda, and the “Spa Water” has cucumber, mint, honeydew, and lime soda.
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Public House
The bar and restaurant in Ferndale, about 15 minutes north of Detroit, has four different mocktails on the menu. If you like the combination, you can also make it alcoholic by adding a shot of the alcohol they suggest.
The “Florence” is a strawberry-lavender lemonade, while the “Leilani” features tropical flavors of mango, pineapple, banana, lime, coconut, and ginger.
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