Forest Valet

Highly recommended! They cleaned my wedding dress and did a wonderful job. I was nervous because it is far and away the most expensive garment I’ve ever bought, but they took great care of it. It cost $ 175, which is not inexpensive, but very cheap compared to the place that the store I bought it from recommended, which said that their wedding dress cleaning prices START at $ 300 and go up from there. The hem of my dress was very dirty, since it rained on my wedding day and we were outside, but they got it completely white again. This place came highly recommended by the Barcroft neighborhood list, and I can definitely see why. We don’t have a lot of dry cleaning done, but we will definitely be bringing our important things here.

Can’t ask for anything more from a cleaner.

One of the very best family owned businesses in NoVa

Dry Cleaners seem to be on every block, so we pass a dozen between our house and Forest Valet. Yes, they are worth it! Starting with great customer service and ending with great, quality work at a fair price and done quickly. Highly recommended!

3^rd generation American owned family business. Didn’t know those existed anymore! Fantastic customer service… unequaled! 1^st time customer but customer for life!

Late on my review as Chris and his family and team have been, without a doubt, the BEST dry cleaners I have ever encountered. Why?
1. Gets out ANY stain, including blood. Don’t ask.
2. Makes my white pants and jackets new again.
3. Listens to me when I have an outrageously expensive piece of clothing I need cleaned. Takes great care of it.
4. Reasonably priced for the quality. If you want mass work done and your stains still on your clothes, go to Zips.
5. Free candy in the bowl by the check out counter!

I finally got up the nerve to have a custom suit altered after some weight loss and the job was perfect and reasonably priced. I’ve never been this happy with alterations and I’ll be returning with more work.

Chris is about as friendly and helpful a fellow you will find. Brought some shoes in and he suggested I go first to the store I bought them and see if they would replace you — always great working with someone who puts honesty before making a buck. Rest assured I will be back. Thanks!

Next day turn around on a suit and a shirt that had some nasty residue from a stick on patch. Excellent service, highly recommended.

Stellar place. They are family run and treat you like family after you start going there a few times. Always had lollipops for the kids. Super helpful, they said they would bring the clothes to my house in Arlington Forest if I was so busy and couldnt happen to get back in a particular week. They also said they would carry it out to the car if I couldnt get all 3 kids out of the car to pick up my clothes. I didnt take them up on this but the offer was great, and I saw them doing it for other people.
Shirts were done right, and they did a superior job on my valuable collectible hockey jerseys bringing them back to beautiful perfection and getting rid of sweat stains that had been there for more than a year.
I would highly recommend this place, especially for anybody with valuable or sentimental clothes like jerseys and wedding dresses.
The owner Chris is top notch, great customer service, and will happily help you if asked.

Forest valet is one of my favorite small businesses and I am proud to patronize this establishment. Chris makes a point to try and have positive relationships with all of his customers and greets many by name.

Hands down, the best dry cleaners I have used in the NoVA area. Unfortunately, I don’t live close enough to bring my weekly load of clothes in… but when I have a challenging garment or something that requires exceptional care, I bring it here. They do an excellent job when it comes to stain removal and pre-​treatment of clothes.

I chose this place based on review on Unilocal.It’s out of the way from where I live and work, but I figured with stellar reviews, it would be worth it. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
I took two suits in to get dry cleaned. They looked great in the bags when I got them back. Upon further inspection ALL of the buttons on both my suits (jacket + pants) were smashed and chipped. I brought them back with spare buttons to have them re-​sewn back on. They were very apologetic and informed me that shell buttons (the kind on my suit) are more fragile than standard buttons. I asked them if they put foil over the buttons to protect them, and they said «No.» Chris, the owner’s son, said they normally catch things like this. I understand people make mistakes, but you mean to tell me, you’ve been in business for 30+ years and didn’t pay attention to what you were doing? Strike one.
I shrug it off. I give them both my suits back and they replace my buttons. I get the suits back and the buttons on the jacket are sewn on wrong. Originally, the buttons on the sleeves of the jackets were stacked, that is to say, part of each button overlaps another. They sewed the buttons on side-​by-​side… and they don’t even line up with the holes on the suit! The kicker to the entire thing is, they had to remove the buttons before sewing on new ones… you’d think they’d sew the new ones back on exactly how they came off, but no. It looks extremely tacky to have a button almost an inch off the hole. Strike two.
As I keep inspecting their shoddy work, I noticed they sewed THROUGH the silk lining on the inside! Not only that, they terminated the thread on the outside seams. You can lift up part of the jacket and see the knots they tied. This is blatant disregard to quality. Strike three.
These people do not care about your clothes. You’re better off spending your time and money elsewhere. I was always told: «Every dry cleaners sucks. It’s just a matter of finding one that sucks the least.» My search continues.

June Cleaver, I am not. I might whip up a mean chocolate grenache cake, hell, I might even polish the silver and dust the objet d’arts, but I DO not iron.
Luckily, I live close to New Forest Valet.
And I do mean Luckily…
Mainly because I have cats… BAD bad kitty cats. They vomit and more recently one of them has begun spraying (PLEASE read my Unilocal about Capital Cat Clinic). Are you familiar with the smell of cat urine? Hhhmmm… Lucky you. Very graciously, NFV has accepted my fouled linens and returned them freshly restored.
Pam, one of the original owners, is a great seamstress, should you need one and Chris, her son, is friendly, efficient and effusive. Guy, no relation to the aforementioned, is always willing to carry your belongings out to your car.
Friendly, fast, efficient service. You might pay more than One Hour Martinizing but who can come come back in an hour anyway?
Oh. And everything is done on-​site. Trust me, this is a BIG plus.

this has got to be one of the nicest, friendliest dry cleaners that i’ve ever been to. although it is a bit on the pricey side, you really get your money’s worth here. its also a one stop shop — we got alterations, cleaning, and shoe repairs done all in one visit. all the spots that other places didnt get out, seemed to come out. apparently they do the most perfect pants pressing. the alterations were great. the shoes were all fixed and cleaned (they were extremely dusty and needed a cleaning). while we spent a lot of money on everything, we were more than happy with the service and plan to go back in the future.

I lived in the Buckingham neighborhood of Arlington for 3 years but always brought my dry cleaning to a place in Clarendon until it closed. I decided to give Forest Valet a shot because it was so close to my home, and I was so sorry that I hadn’t done so 3 years earlier. They are great! The clothing is cleaner than from my prior cleaners, and the customer service is phenomenal.
I now live in Columbia Heights, DC and no longer own a car, but I still Zipcar to Arlington solely to use Forest Valet.

Everything, everyone has said about New Forest Valet is absolutely on point! Plus, tonight I was returned $ 14 that was in one of my shirts when I brought it in for cleaning. They could have kept it without my knowing anything about it and in fact I had totally forgot about the money but there it was stapled to my receipt — when has this happened to you recently — they have just assured that they will get my business forever — but they had it before anyway!!!

Forest Valet is great; a little more expensive than some of the other places in Arlington, but you get what you pay for. If you actually want your clothing clean, well-​cared for, nice people, and YOUR clothing back when you go to pick it up, then go to Forest! I’m new to the area and have only had a handful of things cleaned, but also had a couple of things fixed with no problems. Love them!

Imagine you have all the money in the world, and you employ your own private valet. Now imagine you can find something quite close to that quality of service in a small, family-​owned and operated business nearby, and at reasonably competitive prices.
You’ve just found New Forest Valet. Honest.
I’ve lived here in Arlington for oh … thirty years or so, and this family and their loyal employees have been maintaining my business suits, shirts, table linens, draperies, and shoes for that long. I’d be lost without them.
Be a customer for a while, and when you walk in they’ll welcome you by name and ask what’s new. Put your very best tuxedo, ratty old sports jacket, or heirloom lace tablecloth in their hands, and it’ll come back radiant.
You’ll occasionally find three generations of family in this shop … when the guys now in charge were kids, they used to mow my lawn. They were meticulous then, and they still are. Need it tomorrow? They’ll do their best to accommodate you. Got a weird stain? If anyone can remove it, they can. Environmentally friendly cleaning chemicals? They use ‘em. Minor tailoring? No problem. Shoe repair? They do it.
Thirty years ago grandpa wrote your name on cardboard string tags. Today, it’s all computerized throughout. These folks have worked hard for several generations to deserve this Unilocal five-​star rating. Quality? Friendly, personal service? There is simply none better. I suspect you’ll agree.

This place does a phenomenal job, while it’s a bit out of the way from our house they do everything well. They reheel shoes, they tailor clothes, shirts and suits come out perfect. All with that great customer service we love– they remember our names, even when we havent been in for a few months!
Forest Valet is a bit on the pricey side of dry cleaning, but it’s totally worth it for the peace of mind that my favorite clothing items wont be lost or ruined.