Moonshine Beach and The Deck at Moonshine Flats reopen

May 22, 2021 11:39 AM PT

Moonshine Beach bar in Pacific Beach is known as a hangout for 49ers football fans.

Moonshine Beach, Good Time Design’s country and western Country-Western honky-tonk in Pacific Beach, has reopened with a 7,500-square-foot expansion in the adjacent parking lot at 1165 Garnet Ave.

The new all-outdoor area includes a 40-foot bar, a 600-square-foot stage for live music and two raised wooden decks. A new menu featuring dishes prepared on an outdoor grill is being served at picnic tables on an Astroturf-lined lot. The restaurant has reopened for limited hours on Fridays through Sundays only. Visit moonshinebeachsd.com.

Meanwhile, its sister venue, The Deck at Moonshine Flats at 335 Sixth Ave. in Downtown San Diego, has also reopened with service on Fridays through Sundays only. Visit thedecksd.com.

Kragen writes about restaurants and San Diego artisan food and drinkmakers for The San Diego Union-Tribune.

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Pam Kragen

Pam Kragen is the arts and entertainment editor, as well as the chief theater, dining and opera critic, for the San Diego Union-Tribune. She joined the Union-Tribune staff in October 2012 after 27 years at the North County Times, where she served as the Arts & Features Editor, as well as the paper’s longtime arts writer and theater and opera critic. She is the co-founder of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from San Diego State University and completed fellowships in theater criticism at the University of Southern California and opera-classical music criticism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. And in 2022, she was chosen as one of the fellows in the prestigious National Critics Institute, run by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterf, Conn.