Before noon
Brunch mocktails
Alcohol-free brunch drinks — the sparkling and citrus-led drinks that work at eleven in the morning.
Brunch is where alcohol-free drinking is least awkward, because the whole category already leans toward juice and sparkling wine. The alcohol-free Mimosa and Bellini are near-identical to their originals, and nobody at the table needs to know which glass is which.
Keep them light. A brunch drink that fills you up before the food arrives has failed at its one job, so favour the sparkling and citrus-led builds over anything creamy or heavily fruited. Most of these can be pre-mixed and topped at the table, which matters when you are also cooking.
Shirley Temple
Ginger ale and grenadine with a maraschino cherry — a bright, fizzy classic mocktail.
Garden Highball
Alcohol-free botanical spirit, tonic, cucumber and mint — a crisp, herbal highball for the garden.
Espresso Tonic
Chilled tonic water over ice with a fresh double espresso poured on top — bittersweet, fizzy and cold.
Kombucha Mule
Ginger kombucha and lime over ice — a tangy, faintly funky alcohol-free take on the Moscow Mule format.
Cucumber Mint Cooler
Muddled cucumber and mint lengthened with lime and soda — a cool, green, alcohol-free highball.
Roy Rogers
Cola and grenadine with a maraschino cherry — the cola-based sibling to a Shirley Temple.
Virgin Sunrise
Orange juice and grenadine, layered so the colour bleeds from red to gold — the Tequila Sunrise without the tequila.
Alcohol-Free Bellini
Peach purée topped with alcohol-free sparkling wine — two ingredients, and the same drink the original always was.
Virgin Sea Breeze
Cranberry and grapefruit over ice — the Sea Breeze's dry, tart half, which was always the interesting part.
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Recipes carrying the brunch occasion tag in the catalogue.
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