Minneapolis's Zero-Proof Craft Cocktail Bar

Every mocktail is $10 and made to order, and several are quietly Vietnamese at heart. The Canh Chua Cooler riffs on the sweet-sour tamarind soup of the Mekong Delta; the BBH Sparkler nods to Bún Bò Huế with lemongrass, ginger and lime; the Pho Spice Sour builds an aromatic five-spice sour around fresh lime. It is a mocktail list you will not find anywhere else in Minneapolis, because it grew out of a Vietnamese kitchen.

If you want something bright and easy, the Guava Kiss layers guava, plum and hibiscus, the Da Lat Empress pours N/A gin with strawberry and a whisper of orange, and the Piña Colada keeps it creamy and tropical. A couple — the Lychee O3 and the Pho Spice Sour — are shaken with egg white for that soft, cloud-topped finish. Full flavor, zero proof.

There are plenty of reasons to skip the drink — you are driving, you are pregnant, you are in recovery, it is Dry January, or you simply do not feel like it tonight. At most bars that means a soda and a shrug. At Wishi it means a menu built for you, in a room designed to stay in.

It also makes for one of the few genuine sober date nights in the city: a craft drink in hand, dinner from the same kitchen — the Nicollet burger, bò né, the Wishi salmon plate — and no pressure to order a cocktail to feel part of the evening.

Wishi Co. is the rebrand and expansion of 8th Street Nourish, run by the same women-owned, Asian-owned team on Eat Street in the Whittier neighborhood. The nourish idea never went away — it just grew a night side.

You will find us at 2653 Nicollet Avenue, one block from Quang, with street parking on Nicollet and the Minneapolis Institute of Art a few minutes away. Come for the matcha, stay for the mocktails.