Blue Moon Restaurant & Bar

About this place Blue Moon Restaurant & Bar

The Blue Moon Restaurant and Bar at 35 Baltimore Avenue is the most recognisable building in gay Rehoboth Beach — its exterior painted in stripes of the pride flag colours, visible from the intersection, a landmark that has been guiding gay visitors to Baltimore Avenue since the 1980s. The Blue Moon is not only a bar; it operates as a full-service restaurant with a kitchen that takes its food seriously, and the combination of proper dining and the bar atmosphere makes it the appropriate choice for a complete evening rather than a stop on a bar crawl. The outdoor patio on Baltimore Avenue is one of the most pleasant summer drinking spaces in Rehoboth — close enough to the street to feel connected to the neighbourhood's social life, shaded enough to be comfortable in the Delaware summer heat. The Blue Moon draws the full range of Rehoboth gay visitors: DC political and professional class visitors who summer here regularly, couples celebrating anniversaries, groups of friends on weekend getaways from Philadelphia and Baltimore, and the regulars who have been coming for decades. The Blue Moon's position as Rehoboth's flagship gay institution is unchallenged; it is the venue that defines the character of gay Rehoboth more than any other single address.