A Seattle Bar Called Rosette Will Specialize in NA Cocktails. | Eater Seattle

"A hallway-sized bar next to Jude's Old Town in Rainier Beach aims to fill Seattle’s lack of a bar dedicated to not drinking, positioning itself amid a moment when Dry January and sober-curious culture are growing. It plans to serve biodynamic wine and small bites (think oysters) while specializing in low-proof and zero-proof cocktails. Mark Paschal, owner and bartender at Jude's, explains the approach: "For a lot of people, increasingly, what they’re looking out of a cocktail is the experience of the flavor and the discovery of the cocktail, not so much an alcoholic blitz," and he adds, "There’s just so much that goes into a cocktail, and it’s such an incredible alchemy." He hopes the bar will "give a non-drinker the same kind of experience that an alcoholic cocktail can provide in terms of depth of flavor, presentation, and execution." He is critical of much of the global NA scene: "So much of the global NA cocktail scene seems to really be, 'Oh, people are interested in paying money for this, so let’s just give them something. It doesn’t really matter how creative or how good it is.'" Offerings will expand on existing NA cocktails using ingredients like syrups from Jason Vickers, a local Indigenous chef; there will be non-NA cocktails too, but no stocked spirits, so those drinks will be built from components like vermouths and sherries. The bar will also offer natural wines by the bottle and glass and says it will "make an effort to move away from the main European grapes that colonized the world and explore indigenous grapes from around the world." The project will operate as a co-op, carrying forward the community-oriented, progressive values of its sister operation." - Harry Cheadle