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Mocktails

A good mocktail is a real drink, not a consolation prize. These recipes use the same technique as their spirited cousins — proper muddling, fresh citrus, real balance — so drivers, kids and anyone skipping alcohol get something genuinely worth ordering.

16guided recipesml + ozprecise specs

Every drink here is completely alcohol-free. If you’re mixing for a party, the planner can blend these into the same shopping list as the cocktails.

Virgin Mojito in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a breezy coastal café with chalky blue plaster, pale wood and distant sea haze.

Virgin Mojito

Alcohol-freeMuddledMuddled

All the lift of a mojito, none of the rum: mint and lime muddled with sugar, packed with crushed ice and topped with soda. Cool, green and endlessly refreshing.

Shirley Temple in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a breezy coastal café with chalky blue plaster, pale wood and distant sea haze.

Shirley Temple

Alcohol-freeBuilt in glassHighball

The original kids’-table classic: a splash of grenadine under lemon-lime soda, finished with a cherry. Sweet, pink and nostalgic.

Roy Rogers in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a breezy coastal café with chalky blue plaster, pale wood and distant sea haze.

Roy Rogers

Alcohol-freeBuilt in glassHighball

The Shirley Temple’s cola-drinking cousin: grenadine stirred through cola over ice, topped with a cherry.

Virgin Piña Colada in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a calm garden café with pale mineral plaster, old stone and soft herb shadows.

Virgin Piña Colada

Alcohol-freeStirredTropical

Beach holiday in a glass, no rum required: pineapple juice and coconut cream over crushed ice. Thick, creamy and tropical.

Virgin Mary in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a welcoming night café with indigo plaster, dark oak and one low amber table lamp.

Virgin Mary

Alcohol-freeStirredHighball

A Bloody Mary with the vodka left out — all the savoury, spiced tomato flavour, none of the alcohol. The brunch drink for everyone.

Cinderella in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a welcoming night café with indigo plaster, dark oak and one low amber table lamp.

Cinderella

Alcohol-freeBuilt in glassHighball

A classic three-juice mocktail: orange, pineapple and lemon with a touch of grenadine and a splash of soda. Bright and fruity.

Pussyfoot in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a calm garden café with pale mineral plaster, old stone and soft herb shadows.

Pussyfoot

Alcohol-freeStirredHighball

A citrus cooler from the temperance era: orange, lemon and lime sweetened with a little grenadine. Sharp, sunny and simple.

Fresh Lemonade in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a quiet sunroom bar with weathered white timber, linen shade and blurred greenery.

Fresh Lemonade

Alcohol-freeBuilt in glassHighball

Proper homemade lemonade: fresh lemon and sugar lengthened with soda over plenty of ice. Tart, cloudy and better than anything from a bottle.

Cranberry Cooler in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a breezy coastal café with chalky blue plaster, pale wood and distant sea haze.

Cranberry Cooler

Alcohol-freeBuilt in glassHighball

Almost every bottle labeled cranberry on a supermarket shelf is a sweetened juice cocktail, which is why this often reads soft rather than sharp. Track down the unsweetened kind and the lime and soda suddenly have something to push against.

Tropical Fruit Punch in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a contemporary tea room with warm gray limewash, light oak and one handmade ceramic detail.

Tropical Fruit Punch

Alcohol-freeBuilt in glassHighball

A crowd-pleasing party punch: orange, pineapple and cranberry with grenadine and a lift of lemon-lime soda. Fruity, fizzy and family-friendly.

Virgin Sea Breeze in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a calm garden café with pale mineral plaster, old stone and soft herb shadows.

Virgin Sea Breeze

Alcohol-freeStirredHighball

Take the vodka out of a Sea Breeze and surprisingly little goes missing. Cranberry and grapefruit were always the ones doing the talking, one tart and one faintly bitter, and without the spirit underneath they read cleaner and a good deal drier.

Virgin Sunrise in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a breezy coastal café with chalky blue plaster, pale wood and distant sea haze.

Virgin Sunrise

Alcohol-freeBuilt in glassHighball

A Tequila Sunrise without the tequila: orange juice over ice with a sink of grenadine bleeding up from the bottom. As pretty as it is easy.

Raspberry Lemonade in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a welcoming night café with indigo plaster, dark oak and one low amber table lamp.

Raspberry Lemonade

Alcohol-freeBuilt in glassHighball

Two sweeteners in one glass looks like a mistake until you taste it. Raspberry syrup carries perfume and color but not much sugar weight, so a little plain syrup fills in underneath and stops the lemon cutting straight through the fruit.

Orange Fizz in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a quiet sunroom bar with weathered white timber, linen shade and blurred greenery.

Orange Fizz

Alcohol-freeBuilt in glassHighball

Ripe fruit is the whole recipe. Juice from a good Valencia in season needs no sugar at all, while a tired supermarket navel will taste thin and faintly bitter no matter how much soda goes in on top of it.

Mint Lemonade in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a calm garden café with pale mineral plaster, old stone and soft herb shadows.

Mint Lemonade

Alcohol-freeMuddledMuddled

A Middle-Eastern summer staple: lemon and mint muddled together with sugar and lengthened with soda. Astonishingly cooling.

Grapefruit Spritz in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a calm garden café with pale mineral plaster, old stone and soft herb shadows.

Grapefruit Spritz

Alcohol-freeBuilt in glassHighball

Eight milliliters of syrup is not there to sweeten anything. It exists to take the hard edge off grapefruit's bitterness so the soda has something to lift, which is why this drinks dry and slightly bracing instead of like fruit juice.

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