last night I stopped in to check out “Tops Off”, a new male-centric salon and spa on hale street. located in what was recently the Vault, the formerly pretentious supposedly hip urban club. fortunately Tops Off seems not to take itself as seriously, except when one of the guys is holding a straight razor millimeters from your jugular vein.

I was the recipient of a free quickie chair massage and I was treated to a good old fashioned straight razor shave. (Gulp… I just realized that I didn’t even ask if Jason (not a good name for a razor wielding barber) had been imbibing himself at the open taps before he put that razor to my neck!)

My favorite feature of the place is the bar! Tops Off will serve draft beer and has cleverly managed to convert part of the Vault bar into a draft dispensing pedestal.

I wish them well and hope they keep at least one or two decent beers on tap; last night they were serving Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, which is a good sign.

I wonder if they have discounted rates for bald guys like me?

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