In Ayacucho the hair salon serves triple duty as a telephone booth and a lawyer's office.
Up the central staircase, the Shai Salon serves tea, coffee, Arabic sweets and French pastries, while a harpist and flautist play every afternoon.
The outer ring, of people I've known from the bar scene and the bathhouses, people I've met on the AIDS ward at the county hospital, where my hair salon serves dinner every other week--maybe three hundred.
This Japanese tea salon serves beautiful, precisely made pastries, like zangetsu, a soft ginger-flavored pancake folded over a filling of sweetened azuki bean paste, etched with a pattern of chrysanthemum petals.
These reasons include boredom, the fact that I may have come to the conclusion that I was being some weird hair color Nazi, that my salon serves you wine when you walk in the door, and everything sounds great after a couple glasses of chardonnay.
We felt that recruiting through hair and beauty salons serving the Black community would help us identify women from our target population including those who may not routinely access healthcare.
Across from the Burton, for instance, Jennifer Willemsen just celebrated the first anniversary of her shop, Curl Up and Dye, a retro-themed hair salon serving 1,500 clients.
The Salon d'Honneur served as military hospital during World War II.
Catherine Graziano, manager of the Inn at Irving Place, which houses Lady Mendl's, made a special note of the ambience, and that seemed true of all these salons — they served tea and a little peace, too.
The salon also serves whole wheat crumpet paninis and vegan desserts like red velvet cake.
