Places in London to drink when you’re not drinking

The first permanent UK site for mindful drinking collective, Club Soda. This shop and tasting room sells over 150 low-alcohol and alcohol-free drinks brands and, excitingly, there's a bar at the back. Cocktails, beer on tap and masterclasses are available. The perfect place for a no-booze sesh. 

Visit the Bombay-styled bar beneath Dishoom King’s Cross when on a voyage of sober discovery. Their tee-total tipples menu includes sober Negronis and booze-free Espresso Martinis, as well as affordable sharbats made from fruits and flower petals. 

Danish brewery Mikkeller first UK bar offers up 20 different beers on tap (and more available in bottles and cans), which always includes a non-alcoholic option. Currently, it's an American style wheat ale brewed in Belgium. Pop down and see what's new. 

On the wall is a board of beers from across the land, with each one’s hefty ABV advertised. But in fact, the Earl has got the soft options on lock. Lucky Saint beer is on tap and full of the hoppiness you'd expect from any round at this pub, and there's a special low and no alcohol section of the menu, too. If beery flavour is too much like temptation, the Earl also stocks a solid range of sodas.

Okay, it’s not a bar. But Lina Stores has the answer for the indulgent pasta-and-wine moment you may well be craving at the times you go sober. Boozeless cocktails on the menu include the Nogroni, a Crodino Spritz and a Lyre’s Bitter & Tonic, which all stand up to the bold comfort-food flavours. Minus the booze, but still buonissimo.

The mega-bling hotel bar may be famed for its Martinis, but you can still make it a place for one hell of a celebration when on the wagon. Mocktails – presented with just as much artistry as the hard stuff – include luxe ingredients, from salted cacao coconut water to red berry kombucha.

At the foot of Exmouth Market you’ll find just as appetising a spread of delicacies at beery institution the Exmouth Arms. Away from the hard stuff, feel-good brews from Erdinger and Lucky Saint are on offer. 

Now we know what you’re thinking: this is a party bar in the middle of Shoreditch. But party doesn’t always have to end with a hangover, and The Book Club proves that with its ‘Lo and No’ menu, with a range of booze-free beers and ciders.  

This lavish Mayfair hangout with a terrible name caters to a fashionable crowd with its menu of three booze-free cocktails. The Orange & Clove is made using aromatic alcohol-free spirit Seedlip Spice 94, and the Grapefruit & Rosemany with Æcorn Bitter, a non-alcoholic spritz with botanical herbs and flavourings.

You can still have a night out on the hops at Brewdog’s Camden branch, where they regularly pour their own non-alcoholic craft beer Nanny State from the taps. Beer guzzling never felt so saintly.