Daniel Rodrigues had a dream. He dreamed of a big, beautiful (but rugged) spa where men could proudly get a pedicure or waxing job without facing the scrutinizing eyes of female clientele.
Then Rodrigues woke up from that dream. It was 3:30 a.m. and he had a business plan.
"I told my wife to get the laptop, before I forgot everything," Rodrigues recalls. While he talked, she wrote. By the end he had a name for the salon, in addition to most of his business plan. "She looked at me and said, ‘this is brilliant, what are you going to do with it?’" Rodrigues says. He replied that he had no idea.
Fast forward a year and a half and all that has changed. His Yorkville spa for men, Metrosexual, is set to open any day now. It offers a gamut of services such as a hair studio, pedicure stop, dental hygiene suite, spray tanning room, fat-reduction room, laser hair removal suite, massage room and all the other bells and whistles that go with today’s metro maintenance routine.
The best part? No girls allowed. "At least for now," says Rodrigues.
Metrosexual, 91 Scollard St, 647-342-8525