Barber & Parlour

Barber & Parlour is a three-floor space on Redchurch Street in Shoreditch offering several grooming options for men and women. There’s a Cheeky Parlour for manicures and pedicures; Cheeky Hair by colourist Josh Wood for colours, cuts, up-dos and blowouts; a Beauty Store stocked with cult products, and a Neville Barber for beard trims and haircuts.

The hot new place in London to go for instant beauty gratification!

Just like Shoreditch House – kind of – only we can go too.

When you’ve already got swanky members’ clubs in all the world’s coolest cities, what’s your next move? Well, in the case of Soho House, the answer is to open a multi-use space just around the corner from one of those swanky members’ clubs. The glaring difference with Barber & Parlour – the venture in question - is that any oik off the street can get into this ‘hang space’ and enjoy brunch, cocktails and generally sitting around talking breeze.

To lay it down, so you know what you’re getting yourself into, Barbour & Parlour is about no one single thing. There’s the café/barber/bar/retail space on the ground level, the boutique cinema in the basement and the salon on the first floor. What this means is that finally we have a place where we can get our avocado toast before sprucing ourselves up with a haircut or a shave, doing a spot of shopping for that essential piece of homeware and then heading to the cinema to see the latest rom-com or whatever. It’s just like a ‘mall’ – only one where everything is good and there are no fish pedicure stands or Avril Lavigne types waiting to crash it.

On our visit we enjoyed a delicious Americano alongside bacon and avocado on toast, before killing two hours with good company with locally brewed pale ales on a comfortable, low-slung sofa beneath a gaping warehouse window. It’s just like Shoreditch House – kind of – only we can go too.

Reviewed by T.A.O anonymously
Published on Aug 6, 2015

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