Out 'N About opened as a bar in a location that had long held a popular straight bar, and just 1/2 block away from another fairly new LGBT bar, the Harbor Room, a men's leather/levi-type bar that had opened about a year before. Inside the main entrance is a good sized dance floor and long bar, and then up a few steps (housed in an adjacent connected building) is a restaurant.

The bar and dance floor is moderately busy, catering more to a lesbian than gay crowd, although comfortable for and friendly to both. It hosts the occasional special event or party.

The restaurant serves a wide variety of food considering the small size of its "kitchen". In addition to the traditional Friday fish fry, it offers a good range of sandwiches to entrees on nearly every day of the week.

Late in 2005 some sort of naming problem was rumored, and the business was forced to change its name from Out 'N About to MONA's.