You're 25 years old and ready to graduate from the tired club scene overridden with youngsters and plastics to an environment with a level of maturity. Sounds like you're ready for Moonshine, where 25-35 year olds, unwilling to exchange a sense of cool, congregate for home-brewed beer.

The lounge/restaurant offers complete diversity; suits coexist with dreadlocks and high fashion intermingles with second-hand put-togethers. Men, women, blacks, whites, straights and gays harmonize enjoying all Moonshine represents: food, music and spirits.

The homey vibe helps. Wood and stone floors hold up four-top tables and empty barrels. Track lighting and lamps sprouting from wooden pillars modestly light the space. Two full-service bars, one on the main floor and another on an elevated platform, add color with razzmatazz-red backdrops. A DJ booth sits sandwiched between the elevated bar and a lounge area decked in wavy couches. And an outdoor patio, ribbed with a picket fence and potted flowers, always fills.

The lack of a dance floor removes the club intensity the music (A Tribe Called Quest and numerous house tracks) sometimes delivers, causing tapping toes and twisting torsos in seated positions while waiting for a round of strawberry basil mojitos.

The genuinely warm wait staff appear as in control as Janet Jackson despite the chaos and capacity. On our visit, the waitress recommended the Grapes of Wrath martini (Ciroc, white grape juice and fresh white grapes, $8) before a bowl of fettucini alfredo, $13. The menu, like the decor, is a tad all over the place with country, Italian and bar food but comes quick and hot. Post meal, drown in three flavors of house-brewed beer like the Chronic, made with organic hemp seed, $5.

Average cost: $10-$20

Centerstage Reviewer: David-Anthony Gonzalez