Murdock

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Gays love grooming

Years ahead of the transatlantic cultural beard expansion, former City gent and restaurateur Brendan Murdock set up shop — a neo-retro barbershp — in east London's Old Street, inspired by "the masculine luxury of the capital's Victorian male grooming establishments". That was 2006. Three years later he opened this golden-glow outlet in Covent Garden, immediately opposite the Monmouth Coffee House [see entry] and just minutes from Soho. The full whack of head treatme...

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