Still hanging around is the Touché spa cat who typically lounges upstairs on the warm tile floor. Esme is a friendly, mild mannered member of Touché Beauty Bar. Esme joined Leo, an English Bulldog, and the Touché Beauty Bar family in the fall after the beloved Milly passed away from lung cancer in August. When I do not bring one of the spa pets in, the clients ask about them,” shares Arnold.Įsme, a French Bulldog, is the newest addition to Touché Beauty Bar. For the most part, our clients want the animals to be around them. We have clients stop by just to see the animals on days when they do not even have an appointment. Touché Beauty Bar owner Jenell Arnold believes pets, like her French Bulldog Esme, offer a healing presence in her spa. Yet in addition to the allure of the historic charming brick structure where Touché Beauty Bar operates, the rejuvenating treatments, and diverse collection of local and beauty oriented products nearly every client greets and calls out to the Touché Beauty Bar spa pets. Along with Jane Iredale makeup, Glymed Plus, and GM Collins skincare products, Touché Beauty Bar carries an extensive selection of beauty products as well as distinctive boutique items from a rotating assortment of designers such as LaLicious, Voluspa, Clarisonic, Spiritual Gangster, Leeliu Lily and Fair Portia.
Some clients come to celebrate a private event in the lovingly appointed full service spa while some come to shop. Owner Jenell Arnold and her team offer a wide range of treatments designed to pamper clients and leave them feeling renewed. Touché Beauty Bar offers distinctive boutique items in addition to beauty products and treatments. It is true that since opening in 2013 most of the women and men who frequent the boutique style spa come for the skincare or waxing services.
With Touché, Portland loses one of the more unique nightlife opportunities in the city: a robust Italian restaurant and bar with an expansive, second-story billiards room atop a spiral staircase.Touché Beauty Bar is a full service spa and nail suite that provides premium skin care, waxing, massage, nail services, and lash and brow extension services in a beautiful, historic space on Olympia’s Upper Eastside. The Touché website says Perlina - opened in 1992 - was the first restaurant to serve wood-fired Italian pizza in Portland. We love you, and thanks for the two decades of love and support.įrank Ernandes founded Touché in the space formerly home to Perlina. We are working on finding a new location, but in the meantime, come down and see us while you can. We have been faithfully serving food and booze in the Pearl for over 20 years, long before the boom of condos and apartments that is unfortunately pushing us out. Touché Restaurant and Bar writes on Facebook:
Touché will serve its final Pasta Sherwood on May 14, according to its Facebook page, but the owners still hope to reopen in some form down the road. Located at 1425 NW Glisan St., Touché Restaurant and Bar has been serving wood-fired pizzas and house pastas since 1995, and it appears the beloved Italian spot with a swank upstairs billiards room is closing on to make way for a new development (Eater first reported the possible closure last spring).