Classic Cleaners

We’ve been coming here for a decade. Very attentive staff. Quality care of our clothes — from dry cleaning of suits, gowns, business clothes, etc., alterations, to laundering of delicates. They are very friendly, flexible about rush requests — and always very personable.

All I can say about this place is don’t go here. If you do keep your recipes. I dropped off a pair of jeans to have the zipper repaired. They did an excellent job of that. However I paid twice because I lost my receipt. I personally think that this is BS!!! I will definitely not ever be giving these guys anymore business. If you go here keep your receipt and don’t prepay.

They destroyed my HAND WASH ONLY corset I brought in to get HAND WASHED because I didn’t want to mess it up by doing it myself. I said over and over that it was HAND WASH and she even looked at the label that says HAND WASH… a week later I picked it up and it had shrunk! They had obviously MACHINE washed my HAND WASH ONLY product. I specifically explained to her that I wanted to pay to have it hand washed so I wouldn’t ruin it and as I’m repeating myself here… I repeated it to her OVER AND OVER. Their LAZINESS caused my $ 135 corset to be useless to me. It no longer fits and I am 15 lbs smaller than when I purchased it and it fit me. DO NOT COME TO THIS PLACE!!! They are the worst!!!

Wow, I had no idea people disliked this place so much. I feel like it’s important to write a review in response. These guys are good. I have been going to them for four-​and-​a-​half years now and never had a single problem. They get the job done in a timely fashion and reasonable price — what more do you want from a dry cleaner? They’ve also fixed many, many pieces of clothing for both me and my husband, and they always go over what exactly they’re going to do to fix the clothes first to make sure we’re comfortable. They’ve also occasionally recommended against fixing something that would just get ruined in the process. So, no complaints. Sure they can be a little difficult to understand, but again, they are dry cleaners. Completely satisfactory. There’s tons of parking and they have great hours, too. Seriously, no complaints.

i would give this place between 2.5 & 3 stars.
serviceable laundering of men’s shirts. $ 2.25 per shirt if you drop off three at a time.
after reading the Unilocal reviews, i decided to see if i could get the counter help to be polite via blanket courtesy. this did finally work,
& was an entertaining challenge.
have not had dry cleaning done or lost here so i can’t comment about the quality or absence thereof.

This place is HORRIBLE! I took my boyfriends 3 piece suit to get dry cleaned here as well as my dress to get tailored. To make a long story short. When I came back the following week to pick everything up. They had lost my dress! Luckily we found it (untailored) under a pile of clothes for the tailor. But we couldn’t find it because she had put it under a different customers name! I obviously took it with me, not trusting her to lose it again.
I paid for my boyfriends suit and high tailed it out of there. We left it wrapped in plastic for a few days and took it with us to a wedding we were attending up north. We get to the hotel and he tries to put on the suit and it DOESNT FIT! (He had worn it to a different wedding the week prior and it fit like a glove) The idiots shrunk it!!! I am never ever going back to this place, I am writing this review to help prevent future experiences to other locals. God speed.

Wow I can’t believe all of the bad reviews of this place. Ever since moving to Los Feliz, I have been coming to this place since it is close to Gelson’s, so I can pick up my grocceries at the same time I pick up and drop off my dry cleaning. To me this place is reasonably priced, easy to park and they have always done a great job on the many pieces I have brought them to clean and the many things I have brought them to alter. That being said, I would not bring them any complex alternations or very expensive garments which require special cleaning, but for basics, they are great. Also, I have never experienced any chemical smell on any of my clothing like what the others posted here.

ZERO stars, not because they ruined a shirt, but because they lied about it and showed themselves to be wholly unethical and dishonest.
I have been taking my clothes here for about 8 months, and in the last four months have been bringing in the button-​downs my boyfriend wears to work. Everything was ok, until last time, when he went to put on a shirt and there was a one-​inch long and one-​inch wide hole in a sleeve. It looked like it caught on a machine and ripped, and since accidents happen, I hoped it was an aberration –i brought it back and gave them the chance to do the right thing and offer to replace it, or at least give the replacement amount in dry-​cleaning, especially for a weekly customer. Unfortunately they denied the damage, and said my boyfriend had ripped it, not them, basically accusing me of fraud. I tried to calmly explain that was not the case, and I really wanted to keep coming back but just needed them to accept responsibility for their accident, do the right thing, and then I would feel more comfortable remaining a customer. While still claiming they did not rip the shirt, they offered to mend it, which wouldn’t work, as that would mess up the pattern and the fit of the sleeve. They didn’t seem to understand or care when I explained that my boyfriend shouldn’t have to, and actually couldn’t, show up to work with a patched shirt, and grabbed it from my hand anyway, and sewed it. When I showed them how it looked very different from the other sleeve, and very nicely just asked them to do the right thing and replace it, they said since the shirt was not brand new it was only worth half the amount he paid for it, and offered to credit half that amount in dry-​cleaning, which is tantamount to accepting responsibility for ruining it while still refusing to replace it. I explained that the replacement cost would not be half the amount but the full amount, as stores do not sell six-​month-​old slightly worn shirts for 50% off next to brand new ones, but they would not budge. From the way the manager, Sunny, was negotiating, I got the feeling this kind of conversation happens frequently. I also had that impression when I first went in yesterday to discuss the situation, and the man behind the counter screamed in my face, unprovoked, as soon as I mentioned the shirt had been damaged there, and continued to yell until a girl who worked in the back came out and apologetically asked me to come in today when Sunny would be there.
Worth pointing out that a woman picking up a dress from the tailor at the same time was surprised to discover that though she had asked for the sleeves to be shortened, they had taken them off entirely (!) The tailor found the discarded sleeves in a pile and they asked her to put the dress back on and said they would reattach the sleeves and then shorten them as she had originally requested. Once she did that the tailor then started screaming at her, and she finally left, telling them she did not feel comfortable leaving the dress with them and would go somewhere else. She was incredibly calm and kind given the situation, and it was disconcerting to see how they handled it. Not once did they apologize or take any responsibility; they acted like she had changed her mind when picking up the dress.
This place seems to be consistently careless with people’s clothes, and wholly unethical. Unless you are ok with having your clothes permanently damaged and then paying out of pocket to replace them, I would try another dry cleaner.

$ 51 for 4 dress shirts, a cocktail dress, and overcoat. Just dry cleaning. I went there on a Saturday and the man that greeted to me and knew I was a «first» time customer and made it appear I was getting a good deal. Especially on the coat. I even asked how much for everything and I am very certain he didn’t say $ 51. I’ve been to several dry cleaners before but this is a little pricey. When I picked it up I couldn’t even ask the lady working about cost because she had poor English. Idk just seems high to me. Convenient yes but there goes my happy hour

If I could give this place a zero for customer service I would.
I made the mistake of taking a light Steven Alan jacket to get cleaned here.
Having asked the male Korean owner/​manager what he suggested the best way to wash the jacket he suggested dry cleaning it rather than washing. I told him to clean however it need be, which he’d read the label in front of me and said «we should dry clean».
Skip to picking my jacket up and being helped by a different women. I took a look at the jacket and it was totally faded and ruined. It was nothing like when I brought it in. She started blaming me and saying it says «wash» not dry clean.
I explained to her her colleague had read the instructions and said it should be dry cleaned. Am I stupid to assume if I ask you, the dry cleaner, to figure out what was appropriate means to clean that I am the one who made he mistake? Aren’t you the dry cleaner after all? She got on the phone and in Korean, which I don’t understand, has a loud argument with, I’m assuming the guy, on the phone, only to come back and CHANGE her story and say this coat wasn’t dry cleaned, it was washed. We wouldn’t dry clean if the label said wash only and it’s the coats fault, «manufacturer problem».
These people don’t know what they are doing, have THE worst communication skills, take zero responsibility for their actions and are rude as hell. She didnt have the courtesy to finish discussing the damaged coat and started helping ither customers.
Don’t have any of your cloths ruined by these idiots!

The ladies at Classic Cleaners work so hard, I thought I’d help them out with a great review. They always do a great job. Reasonably good turnaround times. Price for pants is a little high, but most cleaners are like this. Shirts are a good deal, service is not with a smile, but I think it’s because of the long hours they keep :-(

Don’t trust your clothes with this place! I live around the corner and found it convenient to take my clothes to this facility. They messed up on a blouse that I took but due to convenience, I still would drop of clothes. My husband dropped off a new pair of pants that he needed for his grandmother’s funeral. He was very specific about the date he need them by. When he went to pick them up, they could not find them. The owner wasn’t there at the time. When I went back over a week later to discuss the issue of the pants, the owner stated they were there and brought them to me. I asked her if she was filled in as to what happened. She really didn’t have much to say, even when I told her that she lost our business. The only thing she had was a stupid look on her face.
Dont waste your time, money and clothes!

WORST CLEANERS EVER! They will not take responsibility for their own incompetence and then want to charge you for fixing something they did. They are a COMPLETE WASTE OF SPACE and should be driven out of business by rival cleaners. If I could put no stars I would, but I don’t think that would bring their average down.

DON’T EVER GIVE THESE IDIOTS YOUR CLOTHES!
They washed a pair of $ 175 jeans and completely ruined them.
The owner is an absolute fool who walked out on our discussion on how he ruined the jeans.
WOW. Not taking responsibility for your mistakes is not a good business move. I am so mad I’m shaking and there’s nothing I can do about this.
I REPEAT, DON’T EVER TRUST THEM.

Despite the terrible Unilocal reviews of this spot, I took the advice of a friend who lives around the corner and took six months worth of dry cleaning to Classic Cleaners. 12 pieces (2 pants, 2 fancy blouses, 1 sweater, 1 two-​piece suit, 4 skirts, and 1 pair of knickers) cost $ 63.20 with a two-​day turnaround. Not bad, I thought.
Except one of my favorite shirts that I’ve had since I was 18 — light green silk with delicate white abalone buttons — was destroyed by the cleaning process. A fine thread detail on both shoulders completely unravelled and now the shirt is literally falling apart.
On the one hand: it’s just clothes (and I should probably go shopping more often. I mean who the heck wears a shirt for 15 years?). On the other hand, it appears that either the gods of fashion have deemed my attire wholly unsuitable, or this particularly dry cleaner went Edward Scissorhands ape-​shit on my delicates.
Either way, I’m going to have to throw my shirt away, which really bums me out. Also, it would have been nice had they admitted the shirt had been destroyed during the process of dry cleaning rather than hide it in the very middle of a plastic-​wrapped mosh-​pit of its brethren.
There’s a place directly across the street with far better reviews.

This place is fine if you need to clean simple cotton, but woe to those who bring them designer clothing, velvet or more complex things. They washed a brand new velvet suit jacket of mine by mistake and shrank my friends designer sweater all in the course of one month. They tried to convince me the problem was with my very expensive jacket, but a trip back to the store of purchase and two other dry cleaners showed me otherwise. Foolishly, I bought their explanation, and now it is too late for me to seek recompense. They are expensive, but don’t seem to know the technical ins and outs of dry cleaning. I now travel all the way to Fashion Cleaners in Pasadena/​South Pasadena, where they 100% know what they are doing. It’s the only safe bet.

Close, convenient, quick, open late and reasonably priced. What else could you want from a cleaners?
While I think I did have an experience like Mouton D. once with the chemical smell (though not nearly as bad) I have been taking my cleaning here for the past two years and have been very pleased with the service and quality of work.
I recently moved and I&A Cleaners on Sunset is closer to my new house however I still drive my clothes over to Classic Cleaners.

I use this dry cleaners from time to time even though they’re a little pricy, because it’s convenient and they seemed honest and helpful. Well, I took a pair of pants in there recently for alterations and they came back 2″ too long (after I had them pinned there, and ended up paying more than the usual hemming price), and I had to take them back to get them fixed a second time, supposedly «for free.». I then dropped off a pantsuit jacket that had to have the sleeves shortened and when I picked them up, a week late, I was charged $ 75!!! Are you kidding?!? I’m feeling really ripped off, and can only advise that anyone who goes for alterations get a quote in writing before they drop their stuff off. But bottom line, I dont think I’ll EVER go back there again.

I recently took three shirts here instead of my usual spot, which is Celebrity cleaners on Hillhurst. I thought I’d give these guys a try since I drive by them more frequently than Celebrity.
My shirts came back reeking of some chemical, like freshener or detergent. Getting a whiff of them was like being teleported to the Tide Ultra knockoff lab in Guangzho province –in the room where they expose condemned prisoners to the latest batch to see how long it takes for the off-​gassing to make them vomit bile and foam at the ears.
Needless to say, I couldn’t wear the shirts, so I brought them back. After much half-​understood discussion and gesturing by both me and them, a man came out, presumably the owner, holding a black plastic jug of «Freshtex». I leaned in to give the open jug a sniff to see if it was the offending substance. As I did so, he thrust his hand out in a panic to stop me, saying, «nooo!» Fortunately, I didn’t get close enough for the bile and foam to start erupting from my face, but I was able to positively identify «Freshtex» as being the offending smell.
The man kindly offered to launder my shirts again –this time without the chemical, or at least that’s what I thought he said. I thanked him for being willing to take care of this little problem and left my shirts again.
Two days later when I came for my items, I was crestfallen to find that they still stunk of the dreaded, pungent chemical.
I didn’t bother trying to sort it out a second time. I paid them once to clean my shirts twice, now I’ll have to pay Celebrity to clean them a third time. I wish I’d never strayed.
Two stars instead of one because they were friendly and at least they kind of tried.

Located in the Gelson’s shopping center, this place is super convenient. Its within walking distance from my house and a simple pit stop after my liquor run at Trader Joe’s.
I mostly use them for alterations, although I also drop off my dry cleaning from time to time. There is this cute little Korean grandma hemming away with the sewing machine in the front… they must work her a lot b/​c she is ALWAYS there.
My only complaint is their prices are steep. I usually need my dresses shortened as I am only 5’2″… $ 15 a dress! Their dry cleaning is a bit steep as well but so is Hyperion Cleaners across the street (next to the video place). Even a couple dollars cheaper would ease my conscience each time I lay down the credit card. But they are super sweet & they always accommodate when I need things in a rush. So FOUR stars!