Level Salon

Much like the nearby Guthrie Theater, Level Salon exemplifies the Mill District’s reemergence as one of the Twin Cities’ preeminent places to see and be seen. Clients come from all over to entrust their hair to the salon’s stylists, who are renowned for creating bold new looks with cuts, coloring treatments, perms, and extensions. It’s also not a bad idea, as many loyal regulars have found, to stop by the salon for a manicure or brow wax before a night out at the nearby theater. As if to assert the arrival of elegance in an area once famed for its flour mills, the salon houses a swirling crystal chandelier and floor-to-ceiling curtains made of billowy dough.