The 'A' Street Barbershop sits on the second floor of Sultan Plaza, at #02-08, 100 Jalan Sultan, in Singapore's Bugis neighbourhood. Its approach is simple and barber-led: rather than a walk-in free-for-all, appointments are made through the shop's online scheduling page, where every booking is attached to a specific barber. You pick the person, pick the time, and know whose chair you are heading for before you arrive.
Two names appear on the schedule. Khairi books out under the category 'Curry (Khairi)', while Shafaat Zainal appears as 'Shafaat Zainal (Art)' — memorable shorthand that makes it easy for regulars to keep returning to the same pair of hands. Categories are selected straight from the page, and available times follow from there.
The shop runs its bookings on Acuity Scheduling. Visitors can sign up for an account or log in to an existing one, and booked slots collect under 'Show All Appointments', so your next visit is never a scroll through the inbox away. One practical note: the page is a booking tool rather than a full brochure — hours, prices and direct contact details are not listed, so it is worth confirming those with the shop before a first visit.
The 'A' Street Barbershop occupies a second-floor unit in Sultan Plaza, at 100 Jalan Sultan in Singapore's Bugis neighbourhood. Its approach is refreshingly straightforward: instead of a walk-in free-for-all, appointments are made through the shop's online scheduling page, and every booking is attached to a specific barber. You choose the person, choose the time, and know whose chair you are walking towards before you arrive. For a first-time visitor, the essentials are easy to gather: where it is, who works there, and how the appointment system runs.
The booking page is organised by barber, and two names appear on it. Khairi is listed under the category 'Curry (Khairi)', and Shafaat Zainal appears as 'Shafaat Zainal (Art)'. Whether those labels are nicknames or a bit of the shop's personality showing through, they do exactly what a regular wants: they make it easy to keep going back to the same pair of hands.
That structure says something about how the shop sees its work. In a stretch of Bugis where plenty of chairs compete for attention, being bookable by name is a quiet promise of consistency. If you liked what Khairi did last month, you select 'Curry' again. If Shafaat is your person, you pick 'Art' and the schedule does the rest. Both categories sit side by side on the same page, so comparing availability between the two is a matter of a click rather than a phone call.
Appointments run through Acuity Scheduling, the platform the shop has set up as its front door. The flow is simple: select a category, choose from the available times, and confirm. Visitors can sign up for an account or log in to an existing one, and once a booking is made it is collected under 'Show All Appointments', so there is no digging through emails to remember when your next slot falls.
The sign-up and login options matter more than they first appear. They turn a one-off booking into a running record, which is useful for anyone who trims regularly and wants their history at a glance. It is a small piece of structure, but it is the kind you appreciate once you have stood outside a shop trying to remember whether your appointment was this Saturday or the next.
The full address is 100 Jalan Sultan, #02-08 Sultan Plaza, Singapore 199001. The unit number matters: Sultan Plaza is a multi-storey building, and the shop is on the second floor rather than at street level, so first-time visitors should head up. The plaza sits along Jalan Sultan in Bugis, where older blocks, malls and food spots sit close together, and the address drops cleanly into any maps app.
One honest caveat: the shop's scheduling page is a booking tool, not a full brochure. It does not publish opening hours or prices, and no phone number or email is shown there. That is not unusual for small independent barbershops, but it does mean a first-time visitor should confirm hours and rates with the shop before making the trip, rather than assuming a standard retail day.
What the page does make clear is the shape of the experience: an appointment with the barber you chose, at a time you picked, in a shop that keeps its operation simple. Select a category, keep your login handy, and check 'Show All Appointments' whenever you need to confirm the details of your next visit.
For regulars, the ritual is probably already familiar: log in, tap the same name you always do, and lock in the next cut. For newcomers, it is a low-friction way to try a Bugis barbershop that puts its barbers front and centre — starting, as every good cut does, with picking the right person for the chair.