Amaru
A three-hat tasting-menu room where the non-alc pairing of house teas, shrubs and sodas is treated as an equal to the wine.
Alcohol-free bars in Melbourne
Non-alc bars, matcha houses, pubs pouring NA beer on tap, bottle shops with serious alcohol-free ranges and sober run and social clubs across the inner north, CBD and bayside. Last updated .
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Armadale
Brunswick
The Edinburgh Castle Hotel
Brunswick's oldest pub, with a big beer garden and free live music. It pours Heaps Normal non-alc beer on draught, so you can order a schooner rather than a can.
Brunswick East
Brunswick Aces
Opened as Australia's first permanent non-alc bar, set behind the distillery that makes Sapiir NA spirits. It now also serves a little alcohol, but the menu is overwhelmingly zero-alc, with a bottle shop attached.
Teller
An all-day bar in a heritage bank building with five named zero-alc cocktails, using local NA spirits like Brunswick Aces, plus several NA beers.
Bridge Road Brewers Brunswick
A large, family- and dog-friendly brewery hall that brews its own Free Time alcohol-free range, including a hazy pale, a hazy IPA and a stout.
Carlton
The Lincoln
An award-winning Carlton pub whose drinks list has a proper 'Zero Alc' section of house sodas and shrubs, an NA Veneziano spritz and a block of non-alc tinnies.
Cheltenham
NON HQ
Billed as the world's first non-alcoholic cellar door. The NON wine alternatives are tasted in guided sessions that must be booked, so this is an outing rather than a drop-in bar.
Citywide
Blackhearts & Sparrows
An independent bottle shop group recommended by Pub With No Booze for its large selection of non-alc beer, wine, spirits and alternative wines.
Melbourne Alcohol Free Social Group (MAFS)
A Meetup group for people in their 20s to 40s, with alcohol-free dinners, hikes, theatre, gigs and game nights.
Sellebrating Sobriety Melbourne
A Meetup group for alcohol- and drug-free socialising in Melbourne.
Pub With No Booze
A Melbourne non-alc champion that runs tasting parties of 70+ NA products and publishes a venue guide to bars with good alcohol-free lists.
Collingwood
Matcha Mate
A daytime matcha shop and tasting room, opened late 2025, with seven first-harvest blends and two hojicha. Fully alcohol-free and a good alternative to meeting for drinks.
SAMU Matcha House
A Japanese matcha teahouse and cellar door, alcohol-free by design. Short opening hours from Thursday to Sunday.
Beermash
A craft beer bottle shop and bar with a dedicated non-alc collection of around 50 beers, from Heaps Normal and Hop Nation to Garage Project's Tiny range. It was one of the first venues to pour Heaps Normal on draught in 2026.
Runner Up Rooftop Bar & Garden
A relaxed rooftop in Collingwood Yards with Heaps Normal, NON by the glass, a Lyre's spritz and a short list of house mocktails.
Fitzroy
Builders Arms Hotel
Andrew McConnell's Gertrude Street pub, featured by Pub With No Booze for a well-thought-out non-alc list of AF beer, wine, spritzes and cocktails.
Cutler
A Fitzroy fine diner that Broadsheet calls stellar for booze-free drinking, with AF beers, NON wine alternatives and a healthy list of alcohol-free cocktails.
Marion
Andrew McConnell's wine bar keeps plenty of low- and zero-alcohol options, from an Italian orange spritz with verjus to a salted raspberry and cranberry fizz.
Black Pearl
A Fitzroy cocktail institution that gives its booze-free drinks equal billing, such as a savoury lacto-fermented tomato shake with Lyre's. Heaps Normal is in the fridge.
Polly Bar
Reputedly Melbourne's oldest surviving cocktail bar, with a printed list of house mocktails, and bartenders who will mix to taste.
The Old Bar
A live music pub with gigs nightly, and one of five Melbourne venues picked to launch Heaps Normal's non-alc beer on draught in 2026.
Footscray
Mr West Bar & Bottle Shop
A down-to-earth bar and bottle shop with a real alcohol-free shelf of NA beer, wine and spirits to take home, and house-made non-alc drinks at the bar.
Melbourne CBD
Beneath Driver Lane
A blues bar in an old brick vault with four fully alcohol-free cocktails, including a zero-proof Negroni and a spiced pineapple daiquiri.
Fable Melbourne
A CBD rooftop with three signature mocktails that Time Out calls painstakingly prepared, made with watermelon cordial and alcohol-free spiced rum.
Father's Office QV
A big CBD bar with a dedicated non-alc menu of NA cocktails, wine and beer, and zero-proof bottomless sessions.
Society
A grand Collins Street dining room whose lounge bar has a short, thoughtful mocktail list using native ingredients such as strawberry gum and leatherwood honey.
Supernormal
Andrew McConnell's Asian-leaning diner runs three separate alcohol-free sections, with house sodas and cocktails, 0.5% beers and NA wines by the glass.
NOMAD Melbourne
Its bar menu ends with a Non-Alc page of house cocktails, such as a savoury chilli Picante, plus NON, Heaps Normal and kombucha.
Vue de monde
A Melbourne fine diner 55 floors up, offering a course-by-course non-alc pairing of house-made drinks, teas and sans-alcohol cocktails.
Ishizuka
A 16-seat kaiseki counter with a dedicated non-alc pairing of house juices, teas and infusions, listed alongside the wine match.
Middle Park
Middle Park Hotel
A bayside gastropub that Broadsheet lists for non-alc. As well as AF beer and wine, there's always a cocktail or two, such as a Lyre's espresso martini.
Northcote
Danté
A modern Greek restaurant and cocktail bar where every cocktail on the list can be made alcohol-free with NA spirits. The bar will also build something bespoke.
Ripponlea
Attica
Ben Shewry's acclaimed tasting-menu restaurant offers a full non-alc pairing of house-made juices, ferments and infusions, largely from its kitchen garden.
Southbank
Yarra Botanica
A floating bar on the Yarra with an all-Victorian drinks list that includes Hop Nation NA beers, Four Pillars zero-alc and a few mocktails.
St Kilda
The Morning Drop
A sober morning rave and run club. Monthly sunrise runs, walks, yoga and dance parties, mostly free and open to all.
St Kilda East
The Local Taphouse
A craft beer pub that takes non-alc beer as seriously as the rest, with Heaps Normal, Hop Nation and occasional European imports.
St Kilda West
Run Into Recovery
A free Sunday-morning running and walking group for people in recovery or making positive changes, with refreshments afterwards.
West Footscray
Harley & Rose
A wood-fired neighbourhood restaurant with house mocktails, a non-alc mulled wine in winter and a short zero-proof list of NA beer and wines.
West Melbourne
Benchwarmer
A beer hall and bottle shop near Queen Victoria Market stocking lesser-seen imported NA craft beers. Take them away or drink in for a small corkage fee.