salonTabatha Takes Over · Season 3, Episode 5 · Aired January 10, 2011
Avanti Salon
Boston, Massachusetts
It is still up and running.
On the show
Season 3, Episode 5 · January 10, 2011 · salon
aired as Tabatha's Salon Takeover
What happened after
Official site (avantisalonboston.com) states the salon is in its 40th year at 20 Newbury St; Facebook has 2,069 followers (4.5/5, 224 reviews); Yelp lists current hours.
What happened on the show
Boston, Massachusetts, hosted this third season salon episode, set on Newbury Street. As across the run, the show followed Coffey's format rather than a preserved storyline: an immersive look at the operation, blunt assessments of staff and leadership, a team shakeup, and a renovation reveal. No synopsis for this installment survives, so the specific scenes are not on the record and we do not reconstruct them. What is documented is the format and the business, an Avanti salon on Newbury Street in Boston. Coffey's throughline held here too, that a salon's troubles usually trace to leadership more than technique, and that the value of the intervention was an honest reset before the renovation reshaped the room. Even a decades old salon, the show argued, can drift the moment its leadership stops paying attention.
After the cameras left
Avanti Salon is open. Its official site states the salon is in its fortieth year on Newbury Street in Boston, its Facebook carries roughly two thousand followers with a strong rating across hundreds of reviews, and Yelp lists current hours. The live official site, the stated four decade run, and heavy social activity make this a high confidence survivor. A long established Boston salon that came through its takeover intact.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.