Classic Cleaners

Time to update and state that the level of service has never fallen off. Eileen and her sister are still the best. Thanks!

Wash & Fold — this place clearly doesn’t know what it is doing since many of my clothes came back shrunk and with stains set in. On the phone they just bullshitted me and made no concessions.

i feel bad writing a poor review because i’ve been going to classic cleaners for years and the women who work there are absolute sweethearts. they’re also reasonably priced, which i appreciate. however, i just can no longer stand how awful my clothes smell when i get them back. the chemical odor is overwhelming. i get a headache just wearing my «clean» clothes. it’s disgusting and infuriating.
i’ve also noticed a decline in quality lately. for starters, my clothes often return with numerous visible stains that were not removed. i know some dry cleaners ask you to identify stains on your clothes when you drop them off, but if a stain is easily visible (and the entire point of me bringing my clothes to the dry cleaner is to get them cleaned — duh), i expect it to be removed even if i don’t specifically identify it. also, each time i pick up a set of clothes, several items have a little tag on them that indicates the garment has stains that cannot be removed. in some instances, these stains weren’t on the item when i dropped it off! and in other instances, different dry cleaners have been able to remove the stains.
sadly, after many years, classic cleaners has lost my business.

They do miracles here and have great prices!

I have been going to Classic Cleaners for over 10 years. I found them when I lived in the Marina and no matter where I move, I continue to use them for all of my drycleaning and alterations. I’ve tried to move places to be closer to home but I always come back. You can’t beat their service (they always remember my stuff, which is great since I always forget my tickets), their value and their quality alterations I have never had an issue in 10 years!

Great prices and reliable service — clothes always look great and are ready on time. I constantly forget my ticket but they always remember me and grab my stuff right away.
If you’re local this is the place to go. Not open Sundays.

We’ve been using Classic Cleaners for our weekly laundry needs, both wash and fold and dry cleaning for the last 4 years. We even moved to a different neighborhood 2 years ago and we still opt to drive our laundry past 4 other laundry service businesses to get to them. In my mind, they offer the best customer service of any San Francisco business that I use for the following reasons: 1. They learn your name quickly (I love «regular» status). 2. They turnaround your laundry quickly (same day wash and fold!) 3. They can find your clothes without your claim slip. I have always been blown away by the quality of their work and the speed at which they turn your order around. They are fantastic!

the problem with being a munchkin is that i have to get everything shortened. i needed a maxi sundress altered days before i was flying out to hawaii. i called around even in daly city, b/​c i thought it might be cheaper but low and behold the cheapest place was a ½ block away from me. Everyone else quoted me $ 25+ and this lady only wanted $ 10. She did a great job and it was done in 3 days. I think i’ll take all my alterations here!

Great and personal service at this cleaners!
The ladies are super nice, and know their customers pretty well. It gives that small town vibe in your neighborhood!
Alterations are pretty good here, and again, the ladies are pretty nice, honest and just try to help.

I only take a few shirts in every couple of weeks or so, but these ladies always remember my name, and even ask after my parents who’ve taken one or two items there during visits. They’re super nice and work incredibly hard. As if their hours weren’t already long enough, I’ve picked up things 15 or 20 minutes past «closing» several times on my way home from work. Good business, good neighbors.

I’ve been going to Classic Cleaners for 10 years now. I use to live on Chestnut and now live way across town and still make the drive over just to use them. Especially for alterations. They’re great, fast, friendly and cheap! They work really hard and long hours with hardly a day off. I love them!

CLEANING: Cheap and quick, just the way I love my dry cleaning. They do a decent job although I’ve never had to have anything complicated done. I warned them about white wine stains on a silk dress and they cleaned it out just fine. If you bring in an item for cleaning that also needs some easy mending (e.g., hole in a sweater), they’ll fix it free of charge.
ALTERATIONS: They did a great job hemming a couple of jeans and taking the waist in on one pair. What I do love about this place is that they’ll be honest with you even if that means they lose business that way.
Oh, they’ve reinforced buttons on most of my coats /​jackets and so far (a few months later) I haven’t had any loose buttons.
No complaints =)

Love my girls at Classic Cleaners. I can bring the biggest bag of clothes here and still never pay more than 50 bucks. Love this place. However. if there is something big with a stain. I need to take it somewhere else. This is a kind of quick. cheap place that doesn’t really get stains out well. So take nice big coats and stains somewhere else.

I was gettin’ hitched and needed my wedding dress altered. And I wasn’t about to spend a boat-​load on it either. Enter Eileen at Classic Cleaners. I went in 3 times. She was meticulous with each of the fittings. I thought the dress looked good before getting altered — but afterward it was like Eileen had worked her magic — good, clean magic. :) And it only set me back a negligible amount of dough (the exact amount I don’t remember — this was 1.5 years ago. it was maybe 20 or 30 bucks).
The trippy thing about this place is that you have to be prepared to get dressed in this eensy leetle «dressing room» (which is just a curtain pulled around you) in the front lobby of the store front — behind the door! While you’re getting fitted, lots of peeps walking by & checking out what’s going on. Not a biggie, but if you’re modest, be forewarned.

Eileen is probaby the BEST tailor in the City. I’ve been to dozens. Don’t let the modest store-​front fool you. She always does a fantastic job on all of my alterations and comes up with creative methods on how to help me redesign clothes I bring in to her. I frequently buy outfits that don’t come close to fitting me and I dislike the style, but she & I will work together to make the piece just right. Her prices are ridiculously reasonable too. I’ve gone to more expensive tailors who aren’t nearly as skilled as she is. All of the local clothing store merchants (in the Marina) swear by her too!

Cleaning services at Classic Cleaners, I do not know about. Alterations, I do. Do not bother bringing any alterations beyond pants-​hemming to Classic Cleaners. You will be faced with Elaine, who does not listen and screams instead, and who took my lovely Nicole Miller gown, which fit me like a glove and needed only minor strap readjustment, and magically made it too small in the torso. It’s Magic!!! Black Black Magic.