Shops offering booze, other perks raise the bar for customers

Patrons of Monti’s Barbershop in Yaphank for the most part know what to expect when they step inside the salon nestled in a small shopping strip off William Floyd Parkway.

Barbershop fixtures, from a barber’s pole spinning in the corner to mirrored stations and chairs lining the blue-gray paneled wall and sounds of buzzing clippers, serve as a backdrop at the shop where co-owners Anthony Montañez and Justin Raft give their all-male patrons a range of cuts.

Decorated with plush leather couches, chandeliers and seven large TVs tuned to different sports channel, the shop, evocative of a cigar lounge, is more than just a place to get coiffed. It’s also where patrons 21 and older can grab a complimentary drink from behind the white countertop “barberbar” stocked with beers, alcoholic seltzers