With a straight-razor shave menu that includes a full hot-towel treatment and beard line-up as separate bookable services, Boulevard Barber & Shave in La Mesa Village brings finishing-grade blade work to the La Mesa Boulevard grooming corridor. The shave-and-cut combo takes roughly an hour per sitting, pairing clipper-over-comb blending on top with a multi-pass lather shave below — the kind of full-service session that wedding parties book alongside tuxedo fittings at Friar Tux on Grossmont Center Drive. Online booking through Squire lets clients lock in specific barbers and time slots, reducing wait times for the straight-razor work that demands unhurried blade control. The hot-towel protocol uses successive steamed linen wraps per shave session, cycling through freshly laundered towels with the same fabric-temperature precision that Prestige Alterations and Dry Cleaning applies to garment pressing and seam work in La Mesa. The most demanding service involves multi-angle straight-razor contouring along the jawline and neckline, finishing with a cold-towel close and bay rum application to seal pores post-shave.