10 Grooming Salons for a Great Haircut and More in Metro Manila

Men’s grooming salons offer everything from beard sculpting to facials, scalp treatments and massage. A good haircut is the starting point, but Manila’s more premium grooming addresses know that sometimes, men want something beyond a quick trim. 

Some make the experience distinctive. Felipe and Sons pairs barbering with bespoke tailoring and Modern Fox offers cocktails and coffee. There is a discreet option, like Hairwatch inside the Manila Polo Club, and verified expertise in salons such as J/Monis, Emphasis, and Basement. The Barbershop at Okada Manila’s The Retreat Spa allows for a resort-like experience, to boot, should you feel like a swim before your shave. 

The best distinguish themselves by price, mastery, setting, and the chops to turn routine maintenance into something worth making time for. 

Whether your priority is precision, privacy, pampering, or an exceptional cut, here are the premium men’s grooming addresses to know in Manila.

The Barbershop at The Retreat Spa Okada 

The Barbershop at The Retreat Spa has an advantage few standalone grooming rooms can match. It sits inside one of Manila’s most elaborate hotel spas. The current spa menu includes precision barbering, styling, and shoulder and arm massage. There is also an option for a facial with a head massage. 

The combination of grooming, wellness, and hotel-level service makes this one of the most complete options for someone who wants to disappear for a few hours.

The Barbershop is located at The Retreat Spa at Okada, New Seaside Dr, Entertainment City, Parañaque, Metro Manila. More information here.

Felipe and Sons Barberdashery 

Felipe and Sons is one of Manila’s most distinctive grooming concepts. Its “barberdashery” combines traditional grooming with a full haberdashery, allowing a client to book a shave or beard trim and discuss a custom shirt, pair of trousers, or suit in the same establishment. Its present barbershop menu includes facials, beard trims, and shaves, while the tailoring side continues to offer made-to-measure menswear.

Its head-to-toe proposition has always been its strongest point. 

Felipe and Sons Barberdashery’s main branch is in Four/Neo, Bonifacio Global City. Find a list of their branches here.

The John Barbers Groomers 

The John Barbers Groomers is less theatrical than some of its competitors, but its breadth is impressive. The menu runs from deluxe cuts and dry styling to signature and premium shaves, head shaves, and beard or mustache trims. A client can add a facial, manicure, pedicure or foot spa, then move into massage treatments. 

Its locations inside Ascott Makati and Somerset Millennium make it practical for executives, expatriates and travelers based in the Makati CBD. 

Ascott Makati and Somerset Millennium is located at Glorietta 4, Ayala Center, Makati City. More information here.

Back Alley Barbershop 

Back Alley helped establish the idea that Manila barbering could be both traditional and design-conscious. It  has historically been rooted in old-school barber rituals—cutting, shaving, hot towels, and massage—combined with the atmosphere of a place where clients are encouraged to stay rather than move immediately on.

Its past collaborations with The Peninsula Manila for the hotel’s Pen Ultimate Father’s Day Dream Lounge also put it within Manila’s broader luxuryLuxuryA lifestyle defined by exceptional quality, craftsmanship, exclusivity, and sophistication, encompassing the finest products, services, and experiences that represent the highest standards of refinement and excellence.Go to Luxury Glossary ecosystem.

Back Alley Barbershop has two branches: one at 1D Bautista St., Salcedo Village, Makati, and at C3, BGC High Street Central, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. More information here.

Modern Fox Barber & Lounge 

Modern Fox takes the most literal approach to making a haircut social. Barbering occupies one half of the idea. The other is a lounge built around coffee and cocktails.

Its barbers handle classic and modern cuts, beard and mustache trims, and straight-razor shaves. 

The concept is suited to its business-district locations. Modern Fox was created with busy professionals and businessmen in mind. Clients can stay for coffee or cocktails, use the Wi-Fi, or even have quick meetings. 

Modern Fox has two locations: in BGC, at Level 1, Tower 3, Robinsons Trion, 8th corner McKinley Parkway, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, 02 8636 7277 or 0917-566-3369; in Ortigas, The Sapphire Bloc, Phase 2 Sapphire Rd, Ortigas Center, Pasig, 0917-167-3087. More information here.

Covent Grooming Lounge 

Covent offers intimate interiors, personalized attention, and a grooming menu designed to feel private.

A compact men’s grooming lounge more than a conventional barbershop, its Legazpi Village location also makes sense for clients who want discretion and convenience in the middle of Makati.

The lounge appeals to those who want a place where the barber already understands how you wear your hair.

Covent is located at The Grand Midori, 160 Legazpi St, Makati. More information here.

Hairwatch Salon  

Hairwatch is located inside the Manila Polo Club, which also means that services are limited to the club’s members. In any case, Hairwatch has quite a steady clientele that even spans generations.

Its men’s offerings are broader than its low-profile presence might suggest. Its current salon menu includes beard shaves and trims and men’s creative cuts and head shaves, as well as hair  treatments and color. Grooming includes massage, foot spa, manicures, and ear cleaning.

Hairwatch is a fit for the club member who wants several things taken care of in one appointment. The club has six hectares of polo field and incorporates equestrian, sporting, dining and leisure facilities within its Forbes Park setting. Ride, play tennis, or have lunch, then get groomed before heading home. 

Manila Polo Club is located at 35 McKinley Rd, Forbes Park, Makati City. More information here.

The Dojo 

The Dojo looks to Japanese craftsmanship. The brand describes its concept in terms of precision, elegance, and restraint, in a peaceful environment intended to make grooming feel deliberate.

Its position on the fifth floor of Opus Mall offers ease of grooming in the neighborhood. It is one of the more contemporary choices on this list, and a place where luxuryLuxuryA lifestyle defined by exceptional quality, craftsmanship, exclusivity, and sophistication, encompassing the finest products, services, and experiences that represent the highest standards of refinement and excellence.Go to Luxury Glossary is precision.

The Dojo is located at Bridgetowne Boulevard corner C5 Road, within the Bridgetowne Destination Estate, Quezon City, 0919-073-4855. More information here.

Tipuno X+

While the wider Tipuno X network operates barbershops across Metro Manila and the provinces, the company identifies two locations separately as Tipuno X+, the Autocomplex on Mercury Avenue in Bagumbayan, Quezon City, and Versailles Town Plaza along Daang Hari Road in Las Piñas.

A visit can begin with a haircut and styling. You can also add a hair consultation, hot-and-cold towel finish, shampoo and rinse. There is a hair-and-scalp treatment and half-body massage option.

At The Autocomplex, the experience can include a two-hour VIP Package with an aromatherapy scalp treatment, a hydro rinser with automated scalp massage, facial treatment, photon rejuvenation therapy, shoulder and neck massage, priority access, and a complimentary signature drink. 

Hair color, perms, beard sculpting and other specialist treatments also appear on the X+ menu. Its location at The Autocomplex where top of the line car detailing, customizing, car parts, and more makes it a perfect one-stop shop for both you and your car.

The Autocomplex is located at 8 Mercury Avenue, Brgy. Bagumbayan,
Libis, Quezon City (beside Eastwood City). More information here. Versailles Town Plaza is located along Daang Hari Road, Almanza Dos, Las Piñas, Metro Manila. More information here.

M Barbers by Jing Monis and J/Monis Salon 

M Barbers by Jing Monis belongs to a category unlike the traditional barbershops on this list. Its strength lies in salon-level hair expertise—not leather chairs and hot towels.

Jing Monis built his name within fashion and celebrity hairstyling. For male clients, when things involve more than maintaining a cut–color, highlights, hair treatments, and transformative styling–this is the place to go. 

Access to stylists accustomed to thinking about hair as part of an entire image is part of the appeal. 

Visit their Instagram at M Barbers by Jing Monis. M Barbers is located at B Hotel Quezon City, 14 Scout Rallos St., Laging Handa, Quezon City.