this is a fabulous restaurant for very well priced delicious food with enough variation and uniqueness to make me feel like it is one of the top places to go in Memphis. Service has been consistent in my experience especially the bar, and it has a irreplaceable decor to it and vibe

Brunch here is beyond delicious! It is such a fun vibe with beauty parlor chairs, private booths, and fun artwork. They have a nice bar as well. Service was fantastic. We were seated quickly, our server stayed on top of our drinks/food and made great recommendations. Everything we tried was incredible and chef-worthy! 10/10:)

Beauty shop is a Memphis institution for good reason: the interior is the exact reflection of the Cooper Young neighborhood - quirky and hip - and the food choices are exciting. I frequently find I have to wait a long time to be seated even if I have a reservation, and then that service at the table can be hit or miss in terms of timeliness. I've come here dozens of times for brunch and a handful for dinner, but brunch is where I think Beauty Shop shines. There are so many choices that are classics with a twist and they are frequently well-executed. Most recently I was in with my husband for his birthday. We shared the corn fritters with blueberry jalepeno chutney and they were excellent. He got the thai-style breakfast bowl which was good, not outstanding. I got the blueberry pancakes with coconut crema, which I wished were a bit more coconut-forward. Our service on this visit was great once we were seated.

I was so excited to try this place since the interior looks so cool from the photos. We had a 1:30 brunch reservation and unfortunately, our table still wasn't ready so we got seated at the bar next door and I never got to the see infamous hair dresser seating. However, my shrimp and grits were delicious and our server in the bar was really sweet and attentive. I'd love to come back and see the actual restaurant!

Came in for dinner right at 5pm, so the place was totally empty, but the vibe is very cool. Service was absolutely perfect, fast and very friendly. I opted for the Please Plz Plz and then the Beautini. Both were good and not too sweet, but fairly simple. It feels like they're missing just a dash of creativity to take the drinks to the next level. For food, the grilled peaches are unbelievable. The blue cheese and balsamic??? Perfection. The eggplant was also excellent, no notes. The only one that didn't quite hit right was the carnitas. The meat was tender but also very very crispy (on the verge of burnt) and a bit sweet, which is not what I think of for carnitas. And then the sauce was just sweet on sweet... It just didn't all work for me. Not bad, just meh. That being said, I'll come back and try some more of the menu for sure! There were so many things that looked good.

I had a hard time deciding whether I wanted to rate this as a 3 star or a 4. But once I started considering everything, I went with 4. The service was wonderful. That is the part of your dining experience that can make or break it all. It was all pleasing to the eye as well. Very pretty and lots of light. I'm not one that cares for a dark dining experience. The cocktails were yummy. Enough to make me try 2 different ones. But not amazing to me. They had some good options tho and I always appreciate that. I'm just not big on sweet and that's hard to find a cocktail when they're mostly all sweet. The prices were a bit high for me for the portions. We didn't leave hungry but felt like we could have eaten a bit more. I do love their effort in matching different flavors that most would never think would work. But I do feel some of it was hit or miss. Not that they didn't pair well, but more like, I could have had MORE sauce or more of something. The absolute best dish to me were the grilled peaches. I would go again, to meet with girlfriends... but I don't see myself choosing this place when I'm hungry. It's more of a drinking, grazing, beautiful place.

The Beauty Shop Restaurant is a local Memphis, Tennessee favorite and the brain child of Memphis-native Karen Blockman Carrier. Of course, no simple décor would suit as the backdrop for her creative cuisine. This hip restaurant is located in the heart of the Cooper-Young Entertainment District in a former 1940s-style beauty shop. The original hair dryers add to the ambiance and the glass-bricked booths give fun and funky seating for groups of 4-6. "Look Good. Eat Good." are the words emblazoned on the front windows at the Beauty Shop One of the best parts of eating at Beauty Shop is that you're eating in a building that used to be an actual beauty shop - Priscilla Presley used to have her beehive hairdos here and was her curl-and-dye spot. It's a camp wonderland where the façade is Jetsons-era Vitrolite, and choice seating is offered beneath hooded Belvedere hair dryers (there is an actual week out waiting list for this choice seating . There are all kinds of cool salon details - the hair-washing sinks at the bar, the hairdryer chairs, the booths tucked into the old salon stations, the huge curved mirror that the daily specials are written on. The other best part is the absolutely delicious food! The Beauty Shop has an eclectic menu, filled with interpretations of classic dishes influenced by international cuisine. And they serve a brunch, dinner, and an underrated lunch. The menu has a down home American stance with world-beat tints and edges. While the atmosphere and swanky vibe always draw me in, it's this creative food that has The Beauty Shop is on every best-of, bucket list, must-visit list in town, including my own personal list of Memphis restaurant favorites.

I've been here twice, and I have not been disappointed yet. I will say that for brunch, if you don't have a reservation, you might get a seat at the bar. It is not the fastest service, but that's what we get for not making a reservation. If you are from Cali or been in SoCal for a while you know chilaquiles are life, and these are very similar to what you get in San Diego. I will be back for more drinks and food.

Wow! I found this on a "Must Try" list and I'm so glad we came. Not only is the menu excellent with some delicious Asian-inspired fare, but the service was top-notch and the ambiance is amazing. True to the name, it has a beauty shop theme in the back with three or four cute tables with a vintage hair dryer you can sit under. I snagged the last open one and was so happy! This is a chic place with a great menu and friendly and helpful servers. I started with a Thai iced coffee - yum! We tried the fried Thai-style dumplings and there were four of them, good sized for an appetizer, they were fresh and warm and had a delicious sauce on top (not too much, just a drizzle). Hubs loves pizza and grilled cheese so when he saw they have a grilled cheese of the day he ordered that with their house-made chips. His grilled cheese had bacon and a fruit jam and was perfectly salty and sweet. The house chips were crisp and yummy. I had the grain bowl with loads of veggies, mango, slaw, avocado, egg, cilantro, etc. I added jerk chicken. Yum! It was filling and delish. Hubs saw the Jewish side of the menu with the rye bread and had to have the Oy Vey fries with cheese, scallions and pastrami. These were very good but very filling as they're large streak fries. Super heavy. I had a matcha pistachio gelato before we left and it was SO good. Loaded to the brim is pistachio, probably too many, but flavorful and great texture. They had a huge menu for dessert. I loved this spot. In a cute part of town with other shops on a two-three block walk, parallel parking or pay parking lots where you can use and app and plenty to see and do. They have breakfast, lunch and dinner. A real gem.