The Barber Shop is Serving Free Cheese Boards to Tinder Dates

In breaking-stop-everything-tell-your-friends news, The Barber Shop is making things a little more extravagant for the single gentlemen of Sydney. Australia’s first barber shop/bar and the 2014 Bartender Awards' Bar Operator of the Year, the Barber Shop has teamed up with Chivas to celebrate their very first birthday, and the romantic among you reap all the rewards. If you take a Tinder date to the party, you'll get a free cheese board. FREE. CHEESE. BOARD.

Part of a flurry of birthday pampering options created especially for the occasion by Chivas and the Barber Shop — whisky tasting flights, cocktail-paired haircuts, hot shaves, face scrubs, acid jazz — the bar has created a special menu for the second half of the evening: over 40 gins to choose from, sharing plates by David O'Brien (ex-Merivale). But the pièce de résistance for us? When you're booking your table, tell 'em you'll be on a Tinder date and they'll throw in a cheese board for zilch — served with cornichons and baguette.

But hold up. There are a few factors at play here, most only dependent on how much you care about strangers' opinions of you. Firstly, if you get a cheese board without being on a Tinder date, you're going to look like you're on a Tinder date anyway; a kind of Scarlet Letter sitch where you're branded with the cheese plate. So if you're one to get shuffly about everyone knowing you're on a Tinder date, maybe take it to Shady Pines for the free peanuts.

Next, are you going on Tinder to specifically to get a free cheese board? In which case, should you be up front with your date about this? Should you be changing your profile deets to not mislead poor, innocent Tinder users who thought you were here because you liked their holiday selfie? You monster, using people for delicious, delicious cheese.

This is serious, people. If you're going to score a free cheese board, you'd better know what's up or innocent people are going to get hurt. Don't run any birthdays now.

Find The Barber Shop at 89 York Street, Sydney.

The birthday sitch? The Chivas Ultimate package is $125 and includes Chivas signature cocktail, haircut, hot towel shave, face scrub and Chivas Whisky Tasting Flight (12yr, 18yr and 25 yr). The Chivas Experience is slightly less at $98 and includes Chivas signature cocktail, haircut, and hot towel shave. (All appointments from 2pm receive complimentary White Rabbit White/Dark Ale, MOAR freebies).

Bookings essential via 9299 9699 (or website). And remember to tell them it's a Tinder date if you're after that cheese board.