Both work. Walk-ins are taken in order behind whoever is already booked, and the board by the door shows the wait honestly rather than the "5 minutes" every shop seems to say. Saturdays are the one day we’d book ahead for.

Every straight razor here takes a single-use disposable blade, changed for each customer and never touched by anyone else’s skin. The used blade goes straight into a sharps bin, collected by a registered waste carrier — the same route a clinic uses, not the ordinary bin. Clippers, combs and scissors are wiped and sanitised between every chair, and towels are laundered at 60°C or above.

Because the dyes used in beard colouring carry the same allergy risk as any hair colourant, and a reaction can be serious. We test a small amount on your skin 48 hours before, exactly as the manufacturer’s instructions require. If you’ve had a dye service anywhere in the last six months we can usually work from that test, but a first visit always gets a fresh one.

Both. Michael and Priya hold City & Guilds Level 3 Barbering; Aiden holds Level 2 and is working toward his 3. All three are registered with the National Hairdressers’ Federation, which keeps a public directory you can check us against.

From about five upwards, yes — under-12s are £14 rather than the full £24 skin fade, and we’d rather you booked ahead for a first visit so we can give a slower chair to someone who might be nervous about it.

Both, plus contactless and Apple/Google Pay. No minimum card spend, and no card surcharge — the price on the board is the price on the card machine.

Kirkgate Market’s own car park is two minutes’ walk and is free after 6pm and on Sundays; on-street pay-and-display runs out at 6pm most days. Leeds train station is a nine-minute walk if you’re coming in that way.

Text or ring with as much notice as you can — there’s no fee for cancelling, we’d just rather know than have an empty chair. Persistent no-shows may be asked to pay when booking in future, which has happened exactly twice since 1974.