C & C Cleaners

Check all the cloths! I only checked the hangers and realized at home that one was empty. Of course, they said we must have lost it on our way home. We parked close by and didn’t, certainly. They weren’t friendly and understanding at all. Go somewhere else, there are plenty of options in Berkeley.

This has been my go-​to dry cleaner. They have great service and dry cleaning!

This is the ONLY dry cleaner I trust. Mr. Kim has successfully cleaned three designer dresses, including Armani and Ellie Tahari, men’s cashmere sweaters, a merino wool blanket, woven cotton placemats, a pastel Pashmina scarf, hand-​knit slippers from South Asia, and many other items both delicate & workaday. Everything has been cleaned perfectly, and returned in superb condition at the time promised.
In 2014, Mr. Kim rescued a dress that had a large and terrible blotch on the front from my trying a Tide stain stick while traveling. I’d resigned myself to losing the dress, but he saved it, like new. He’s a true professional.
I don’t live in the neighborhood, but it’s worth the drive across town to C&C for the assurance of good results. They also have seamstress services right there, so hems or buttons are quick & easy in the same trip.
The counter staff – Sophia & her successor – are friendly, on the mark, and always share a smile. I like how they call me «Mrs. Blair.»

I live in Los Angeles. I dropped off 8 shirts to be laundered on Wednesday afternoon, the day before Thanksgiving. I was told that the shirts would cost $ 2.50 each. I asked to have the shirts laundered by Saturday at 6:00 PM. On Friday, the lady called me to say that the shirts were ready. When I went to pick them up, she told me that she had to launder them by-​hand and she dry cleaned two or three shirts for $ 7.00 a piece. I asked why she did not call me and ask my permission first, and she responded that there was no time.
The cleaning was just average, and the cost was astronomical. Just because I was from out-​of-​town was not a good reason to cheat me. I would never again go to this cleaners. How dare they operate in such a low, awful manner.
Please beware of C C Cleaners on College Avenue in Berkeley.
AJC

Decent prices, but you definitely get what you pay for. I usually go to Eclipse Alterations on Piedmont but was on College so I thought I’d take a chance. C+C totally ruined the dress I was going to wear to a wedding this weekend. They also somehow managed to stretch out and create crazy marks on my pants that I dropped off for a quick zipper fix. I dropped 2 pieces and both are completely messed up to the point where I will have to take them to someone else to fix, or just toss them and call it a day. Lesson learned: only go to professionals for alterations. Only people who know how to sew and understand how dresses are made should be trusted to work on altering them. This is such a hack job. Embarrassed and sad that I now have to safety pin the dress where they messed it up so I can go to the wedding. There’s a big bulge where they should have sewn it straight. Unreal. Avoid at all costs!!!

Hmm. So I didn’t much like it when they raised the price for laundering shirts to $ 2.00, but now if I bring in something slightly odd (like a linen shirt) they want $ 3.50 to launder and press it. (They say it is because they can’t machine press it, it has to be hand pressed.) Seems a bit steep to me. And their pressing on regular dress shirts isn’t that great — the collars often have little wrinkles pressed in. I can do better at home. Heading towards two stars, but they are still friendly, and stuff gets done on time.

find another place! this is what i plan to do, after going here for many years (under previous management). I brought in some kitchen curtains (purchased in France) for dry cleaning. I don’t know if they used some kind of chemical on the curtains or put them in a wringer washer, but the curtains were returned in tatters. they still expected me to pay the $ 12 to get them out. yeah — but i will not be going back. i have had a few other issues with this cleaners over the past few years, one the prices going up & a few other smaller things. this was the final straw!

These guys go out of their way to help you out.
I called ahead to let them know I was en route but traffic was likely going to push me into the 6:15 time range. They said they’d stay open for me — and they did!
Got some pants hemmed there recently, and they did a great job with them in a good amount of time.
I’ll be coming back.

This cleaner damaged rain coat from Burberry. Cleaner admitted that dry clean damaged waterproofing layer. He, however, said that he followed instruction, so manufacturer (Burberry) is the one to be blamed…
Fact is coat was dry cleaned before, and it was ok. I believe extra heat/​chemical damaged water proofing layer of the fabric. Business reported to BBB. Simply avoid this cleaner. See the photos uploaded.

Decent prices, fast turn-​around and friendly staff.
I come here to get my business clothes dry cleaned from time to time and they also do a perfect job. The clothes smell clean, have any slight stains removed and are always pressed nicely.
The people at the front desk are also very quick at processing you either when dropping off or picking up which I really appreciate since I tend to not pay for the meter when I stop by!
Once my boyfriend needed a shirt dry-​cleaned for an interview the next day. I dropped it off at about 3pm and it was ready the next morning so that he could pick it up and get ready in time for the interview. They didn’t even charge extra for this!

I’ve been patronizing C&C’s ever since I moved into the neighborhood in 1995 and loved it, not just b/​c of the location. Since the new owners took over, the quality has gone down and the prices have increased. Claims to be a green cleaners but I think that’s a marketing ploy to justify the higher prices. Most recently, I brought in a brand new suit jacket to be hemmed and they ruined it by cutting the arms too short; and there wasn’t enough left to fix it. Perhaps it was due to the major language barrier? Not sure but I was not happy. They wouldn’t comp the mistake, nor reimburse me for the ruined jacket. Needless to say, I won’t be returning. Think I’ll try Arlene’s up the street.

I just picked up a fleece jacket and they shrunk it! Sleeves are too short, and there’s bunching around the seams. I specifically pointed out that this was not to be dry cleaned, and that it had a label that recommended air-​drying, not using a machine — I showed them this TWICE. It is ruined, and I am angry.

My clothes never come out clean from here. I’ve tried them 3 times and not been pleased any of them.
The staff is very friendly, but the quality is lacking.

The husband and wife who own and operate this dry cleaning business are friendly, helpful and longtime Elmwood business owners.
My dry cleaning is always clean and pressed, the price is right, and I am always greeted by (my last) name when I patronize this business. This place is reliable and always able to find my cleaning without a hitch.
I love the Elmwood!

After bout a six month run of good luck with this place, I took one of my favorite spring dresses there only to find it ruined in the front. The gentleman at the counter said three times that he may be able to fix it and when he couldn’t tried to offer me a store credit. (Why would I continue bringing clothes here?) It was only after another customer entered did he agree to give me cash for my dress. I greatly did not appreciate the run around he gave me after returning to the store multiple times and then shooing me away with cash so I wouldn’t make a scene. The one star is really for the cute dog.

This dry cleaner is seriously awful. My fiancée and I started using them because they are right around the corner from our place.
They were fine for the first bunch of months, other than the occasional not-​getting-​the-​stain-​out-​the-​first-​time kind of thing. My fiancée brought a big bunch of clothes for cleaning and tailoring (they do tailoring as well). One of those items was a $ 350 jacket that needed the sleeves hemmed. We thought we brought it home a week later but later discovered it was not in the bag with the rest of the clothes. (I’ll get back to that shortly.)
In the meantime, we brought our dry cleaning as usual only to have several pairs of dress pants have their buttons MELTED on to the pants. We brought them back in and said they didn’t understand how it happened. However, he did fix this for free so we gave them the benefit ot the doubt. Then we brought some more dress pants and they ripped buttons off of those. We had decided to no longer frequent this store when we discovered the missing jacket. When we talked to the owner, he repeatedly stalled us by saying «I need to talk to my wife» and promised to call us back. But he never did. At this point, we’ve resigned ourselves to losing the jacket, although we are considering our options and will certainly be reporting him to the Better Business Bureau. I would recommend NEVER GOING TO THIS DRY CLEANER.

WORST ALTERATIONS EVER. Since I had never had any major problems with this cleaner, I decided to drop off my brand new silk dress here to be hemmed. A basic, simple request for any professional seamstress. She told me it would be ready in a week. When I returned a week later, the man at the front desk told me they had misplaced the dress. He assured me that they would locate the dress and asked me to come back in two days. This concerned me quite a bit, but since I did not need the dress right away, I decided not to make a big fuss about it.
When I returned to pick up the dress two days later, I was horrified to see what they had done. There was buckling in the silk and the haphazard stitching showed through the fabric. Additionally, the slip underneath had been cut, but never hemmed. The seamstress insisted that I had purchased the dress with a cut and frayed slip. I told her it was impossible. HOW could she even argue that??!
In the end, I paid $ 35 for a mutilated silk dress and a ruined day. Thanks.

I had an experience similar to Jane D. I’d been getting clothing cleaned there for years and needed a dress altered in a hurry. I was attending a black tie affair on the east coast and arranged to pick my dress up two days before leaving. Well, they pulled the fabric in poorly so that the dress buckled in a pretty severe way. Fortunately, I tried it on before leaving so I was able to speak with the tailor while wearing the dress. Unfortunately, she insisted that I’d brought the dress in with this defect and that it should be returned to the manufacturer. When I told her that I’d tried the dress on for her to alter several days prior and there had been no defect, she got defensive and was extremely rude to me.
It’s not my style to argue with service people, so I basically just chalked the experience up to a loss, but I definitely will not be going back.

Don’t have any complaints – my clothes came out fine.
They have a cute little dog

A solid 4-​star cleaners.
I come here a lot of dry clean my wool/​cashmere items and they did a good job in my opinion so I suggested my boyfriend bring his dress shirts to get dry cleaned/​washed & ironed as well. I also agree with other Unilocalers that their turnaround can be very quick if you request it to be.
Overall, a great place to get your clothing dry-​cleaned at an affordable price in Berkeley!