Leather barber chairs and mirrors inside Pallance & Sons, warmly lit

Barbers & Shavers · Est. 1921

Pallance&Sons

A traditional gentlemen’s barbershop on Foundry Lane — four generations of the scissor, the comb and the straight razor, kept exactly as they should be.

4.9 · 1,120 reviews

The Appointment Book

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Pallance & SonsEst. 1921
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Choose your service

Cuts
Beard & Shave
The Works

The Bill of Fare

The Service Menu

Flat prices, no surprises. Every service finishes with a hot towel and a proper style.

Cuts

  • The Cut
    $4545 min

    Scissor and clipper work, wash, hot-towel finish and style.

  • Skin Fade
    $5045 min

    A precision fade to the skin — any grade, sharp lines.

  • The Buzz
    $3025 min

    One-guard all over with clean, crisp edges.

  • Kids' Cut
    $3030 min

    For the gentlemen 12 and under.

Beard & Shave

  • Beard Sculpt
    $3530 min

    Trim, line-up, hot towel and finishing oil.

  • Hot Towel Shave
    $5545 min

    The classic straight-razor shave, hot towels, balm.

The Works

  • Cut & Beard
    $7070 min

    The full tidy — cut plus a beard sculpt.

  • The Full Service
    $9590 min

    Cut, straight-razor shave, hot towel, style — and a drink.

The straight-razor shave

The Ritual, in five acts

Fifty-five minutes, unchanged since 1972. Come with a week’s growth and no appointments after.

A gentleman reclined in the barber chair before a shave
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The Recline

You are laid back in the chair and the world is asked to wait. A short consultation on the grain of your beard, and nothing more is required of you.

A hot towel laid over the face
II

The Hot Towel

A towel, steamed and wrung by hand, is laid over the face. Pores open, the beard softens, and the shoulders finally drop.

Shaving lather applied with a badger brush
III

The Lather

Warm soap is whipped in a bowl and painted on with a badger brush, worked against the grain until it stands.

A straight razor drawn across a lathered cheek
IV

The Straight Razor

The blade, stropped to a whisper, is drawn in long confident passes — with the grain, then across. This is the part that cannot be hurried.

Finishing balm applied after the shave
V

The Finish

A cool towel to close the pores, a balm worked in by hand, and a look in the glass. You leave a degree sharper than you arrived.

The Chairs

Our Barbers

Master barbers with a century of standards behind the chair. Request your man, or take the first that’s free.

Marcus Vale, barber at Pallance & Sons

Marcus Vale

Skin fades & tapers

14 yrs at the chair

Deacon Cole, barber at Pallance & Sons

Deacon Cole

Classic scissor work & beards

20 yrs at the chair

Ash Rivera, barber at Pallance & Sons

Ash Rivera

Textured crops & modern styles

9 yrs at the chair

Rey Okafor, barber at Pallance & Sons

Rey Okafor

Straight-razor shaves

16 yrs at the chair

Since 1921

A hundred years of the trade

Four generations, one strop, and a standard that has never once been lowered.

  1. 1921

    The first chair

    Alfred Pallance hangs his pole above a single leather chair on Foundry Lane. A shave is tuppence; a cut, a shilling.

    The original barbershop interior with a single leather chair
  2. 1948

    …and Sons

    Alfred's boys, Edward and George, take up the razor. A second and third chair are set. The name over the door grows by two words.

  3. 1972

    The Shave Room

    A back room is given over entirely to the straight-razor ritual — hot towels, badger brushes and a standing rule of silence.

    A hot-towel straight-razor shave in progress
  4. 1999

    The fourth generation

    The workshop is restored to its 1920s panelling. New hands, old standards — the same strop that sharpened Alfred's blade still hangs by the door.

  5. Today

    By appointment & by tradition

    Master barbers, a members' book and a straight-razor shave done the way it always was. Some things are worth keeping exactly as they were.

    The present-day panelled interior of Pallance & Sons

The Standing Book

Memberships

A standing appointment and a place kept in the book. Cancel at any time, as a gentleman would.

The Regular

$70/mo

  • 2 cuts every month
  • 10% off products
  • Skip the walk-in line
Enrol in The Regular
Most chosen

The Sharp

$120/mo

  • Unlimited cuts
  • 1 hot-towel shave / month
  • Priority booking
  • 20% off products
Enrol in The Sharp

The Icon

$220/mo

  • Everything in The Sharp
  • Your barber, on standby
  • Grooming products included
  • After-hours access
Enrol in The Icon

4.9 · 1,120 reviews

Marcus is the only person I trust with a fade. Fifteen years of going here and it's never once been wrong.
James W.

The full service with the straight-razor shave is a proper experience. Hot towel, a drink, out looking sharp.
Andre T.

Booked in thirty seconds, in and out on time, and the cut was exactly what I asked for. Membership pays for itself.
Diego M.

Great atmosphere and skilled barbers. Gets busy Saturdays — book ahead and you're golden.
Sam H.

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88 Foundry Lane

Dallas, TX 75201

Mon – Fri
9 AM – 8 PM
Saturday
8 AM – 6 PM
Sunday
10 AM – 4 PM
The frontage and interior of Pallance & Sons on Foundry Lane
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