Amir Precision Cuts sits on Ventura Boulevard in Encino, a few minutes on foot from the Encino Oak Tree and just west of Louise Avenue. Anyone already on that stretch — working there, running errands, walking back from Encino Park — can reach the chair without getting into a car. Appointments run Tuesday to Saturday.
The stretch of Ventura Boulevard the shop sits on
This barbershop on Ventura Boulevard in Encino sits on a stretch that changes character every few blocks. The shop is at 17388, between Louise Avenue and Hayvenhurst Avenue, on the run where the storefronts sit close together and the sidewalk is wide enough to be worth using. The Encino Oak Tree is a few minutes east. Los Encinos State Historic Park is a little further along in the same direction, and Encino Park sits north of the boulevard.
That geography does something to how often men get their hair cut, and it is not a small thing. A barber you can walk to is a barber you actually see. The appointment stops being an errand that needs a parking plan and becomes fifteen minutes of walking either side of the work. Men who live or work between Hayvenhurst and Louise tend to come back on a sensible interval for exactly that reason. Men who have to drive across the Valley tend to stretch it, and a stretched interval is what turns a good cut into a shape that has to be rebuilt. That is the practical case for choosing a barber near the Encino Oak Tree over one you have to plan a trip around.
If you are looking for a barber near the Encino Oak Tree, the landmark is the easier way to find the shop. Start at the tree, walk west along the boulevard, and you are there before the walk becomes a journey.
What arriving on foot changes about the appointment
More than you would expect.
You turn up unhurried. Nobody who has just spent six minutes circling for a space sits down relaxed, and the first two minutes of an appointment are the ones where you explain what you want. Those two minutes decide the cut. Rushing them is how men end up with a shape they did not ask for and cannot describe afterwards.
Your hair also arrives in its own state. A car headrest flattens the back and a driver's window pushes one side around. Neither is permanent, but both make it harder to read how the hair actually falls, and how it falls is what the cut has to work with. Hair that has been walked in sits the way it sits at home.
Then there is the end of the appointment. A fresh cut goes straight under a seatbelt and a headrest when you drive off, which is a strange way to finish something that was just shaped carefully. Walking out onto the boulevard is a better last five minutes. You see it in daylight, in a window, at the angle other people will see it.
None of this is a reason to walk if you live in Tarzana. It is a reason to walk if you already could.
How the appointment runs
Amir works alone. Every appointment is with him, and the chair is not double-booked — that is the whole reason the shop runs on appointments rather than a queue. Nobody is parked in a waiting area while a second client is started in the same time slot.
The practical effect is that the shop cannot absorb a man who simply appears at the door. It can nearly always find him a slot a day or two out. Midweek is easier than Saturday. If you want to book on your way past, message on Instagram rather than standing outside working out whether the door is open.
"A man who has walked five minutes to get here talks differently in the first minute than a man who has just parked. I get better information, so he gets a better cut." — Amir, barber
The consultation is not a formality. It is where the neckline gets decided, and the neckline is the part of a haircut that dates first.
If you are driving
Most people still drive, and it works.
Street parking runs along Ventura Boulevard, metered nearest the shop and free further out as you move away from the busiest blocks. Midweek it is straightforward. Saturday is genuinely busier — the boulevard fills, the closest meters go first, and the walk from wherever you land might be the five minutes you were trying to avoid. Leave a few extra minutes rather than arriving at the appointment already behind it.
Metro runs along the boulevard, with stops a short walk either side of Louise Avenue. For men coming from Sherman Oaks or Van Nuys without a car, that is the simplest way in. A walkable barber in Encino only stays walkable if the last part of the journey is short, and from those stops it is.
Hours are Tuesday to Friday, 9 in the morning until 8 in the evening, and Saturday until 7. Closed Sunday and Monday. Full directions and hours are on the site, and if something about the visit is unclear, the common questions probably cover it.
A haircut in Encino is $50, and the shape of the visit is the same whether you walked or drove. The walk is just a better version of the same appointment.