Locust Cleaners

I’ve been a bridesmaid in 9 weddings, yes, 9! Jeannie at locust cleaners has done my alterations for every single wedding bridesmaid dress I’ve ever been in and she does all my other alterations as well. She’s literally the only one that I will trust with my important alterations so I drive from Santa Clara to SF just to see her. She also does a my hubby’s dress shirts and altered his brand new Burberry suit. I wouldn’t trust it with anyone else. She did an amazing job. It looks like it was made specifically to fit him. I’ve never had an issue with their services (alterations not dry cleaning) and I’ve been coming here literally for 10 years! If you have an issue, ask to speak to Jeannie. She’s the owner and she’s awesome!

Love my cleaners. I don’t usually travel outside my 4 block radius for a whole lot, but finding a cleaners that doesn’t shrink your clothes and is willing to undo your entire blouse to resew it is rare. The also offer affordable prices and is always friendly.

this place is great. the woman at the counter is very friendly and my clothes are always clean. would recommend.

So relieved to find this place… Been living out of the country for awhile & had a lot to get cleaned! The turn around time was fast (had an event) the service super friendly and my clothes looked perfect. Definitely will be back :-)

Best cleaners in town. Wonderful customer service and best prices. I highly recommend.

How do you not love this place! the owner is so sweet.
I got very sick before my wedding and lost a lot of weight. I didnt even realize it until i tried on my dress a few days before the wedding and it was practically falling off me! I
couldnt find anyone to take in my wedding dress on time and was so stressed out … until I found Locust Cleaners!
The owner here was so willing to help me. She not only took in the dress but did it in a way that was SO much extra work for her but would keep all the pearls on the dress and the design in tact. I appreciated that so much! I have moved out of the city but still take all my dry cleaning back here.
She really saved my wedding and went out of her way to help me. Mrs L, I really wish you would open a store in the peninsula =), but don’t worry, I will still drive to you nomatter where you are!

I haven’t had my jackets dry-​cleaned for a while… Yuck! So as I was spring cleaning, I dropped them all off and came back last week to pick them up and they all look brand new! I had a loose button my tan BR jacket and saw they fixed it for me!!! Awesome! (the prices are pretty good too). Will be back!!!

I travel a LOT for my work, and when I am in CA this is my go to place for cleaning! They always try and accomodate my schedule and do a wonderful job on everything I give them! I even find myself bringing stuff with me beacause I like they way take care of my clothes :) now if I could convince them to open up in my hometown in FL? I would be even happier!

I’ve been getting my suits done here for years and won’t trust my suits with anyone else! The service has always been great and I love how they know how to use the right amount of starch to keep my shirts looking new.

I love this cleaner! They do an awesome job and they’re always friendly. I’ve also had them do alterations and you can tell they want to make sure their customers are happy. Highly recommend!

Buyer beware at this place — they bang on the little cheap calculator — give you the total and they are often over charging — I urge you to check the individual pricing — last week they added an additional $ 20 to my bill — this week $ 35 — when I corrected their addition — they giggle and say «oh so sorry»! Seriously — how often are they ripping off clientele? I have often paid there without doing the calculations and I’m fairly certain they add a chunk of change to the bill regularly. Also — only take cash and check — Has the IRS done any audits lately?

I have nothing but love for this place. The cleaning and alterations are great– but that’s to be expected. The lady who runs the alterations completely won me over when she taught me how to sew a button and welcomed me to come by any time for lessons or just to use her needles and threads; that is above and beyond anything I expected and I will be loyal for life to her– classy lady.

I don’t usually Unilocal but what I have been through at this place inspired me to do so.
I have been going to these cleaners for the last year now and have been generally disappointed every time but it’s so close to my house that I kept going.
I honestly think they don’t even have a laundry. My shirts always come back smelling like curry. They take no notice of stains and in doing so actually make them worse. What I think they do is just steam press them and put them back on the hanger then bat them with curry.
The last straw was today when I went to pick up my shirts and on the back side of a visible shirt in the bunch (not even one they could have hidden in the middle) were 2 blue marks that weren’t there when I brought it in. I mentioned them to the employee and she said that it was water based ink that doesn’t come out… water-​based… won’t come out in the laundry… am I missing something? Last time I checked there’s a thing called bleach that removes most stains… especially a water based ink. Anyways… I said «Those stains weren’t there when I brought the shirt in.» They said «OK… we’ll redo it for you.» When I went to pay they charged me twice to clean the one shirt that they freakin marked!!!
I said, «I don’t feel as though I should pay for this one. You marked it… this shirt should be free.» They said that the laundry costs money and that I have to pay a redo fee and that the stain still probably wouldn’t come out. So I paid for everything… including the redo fee… but took all my shirts including the stained one and told them that I will never return… they just let me go and didn’t try to persuade me to continue using their service.
After that I came home and took all of 5 minutes to bleach pen out the marker stains and re-​iron the shirt. So on that note… do yourself a favor and go somewhere else… it’s worth the walk.

…Sigh.
I just returned from picking up three Loro Piana pieces that I entrusted to Locust Cleaners last week; one cashmere watch cap, one windbreaker and one reversible cashmere vest.
A little background: a few months ago, another cleaner had totally stained the lining of the windbreaker, and LP graciously shipped it to NYC for stain-​removal. The jacket came back looking stunning; they had removed all the oily stains and the jacket was perfect.
Let’s face it, San Francisco weather requires outerwear of some kind virtually all year, so the windbreaker was due for another cleaning.
The lady at Locust mentioned that there could be minor discoloration of the suede on the collar of the vest, but what I just picked up left me crestfallen and borderline angry. The edges of the slash pockets, on the quilted side of the vest have a greasy, oily appearance; the suede looks dry and brittle, and even acknowledging that some discoloration could happen, I wonder; is the end result of cleaning suede always so ugly? Something bled into the surrounding quilting, and the dark staining is visible, even on dark blue!
So, now I’m faced with the very real EXPENSIVE option of shipping garments to NYC for ROUTINE cleaning.
Also: the vest’s deep blue now looks lifeless; it’s not supposed to appear dull.
This was my first visit, but I don’t see myself returning.

I needed to get a suit pressed in a pinch. It was Saturday morning, and I needed to get the suit back by Monday afternoon. My regular cleaners couldn’t get it back in time so I was forced to find somewhere else to go that wouldn’t destroy the suit that i had literally just purchased.
I looked up cleaners in my neighborhood, and low and behold I stumbled upon Locust Cleaners on Unilocal.I gave them a call — — they said that pressing it by Monday afternoon would be no problem at all. I picked it up that Monday afternoon. It looked great, and here’s the best part — — it was only $ 10. I know my fancy shmancy cleaners would have probably charged double that.
I am looking forward to venturing back to try them out with some of my regular dry cleaning and laundering to see how they compare!

Hemmed my wedding dress for half the price of a place in low PAC heights. Did a great job.

I took my complicated wedding dress here, after a long, hard day of getting turned down by French cleaners around the city, to get it pressed for the big day. The team took it in, took the job very seriously, and pressed it into gorgeousness. Thank you for your care and fornot ripping me off in the process! Big day here I come!

My husband took his very expensive suit here to be dry cleaned last minute because it’s near our apartment and we had a wedding to go to, despite the fact that other Unilocalers said it was overpriced. He was happy to find out that a jacket, pants and shirt came to just $ 21. Why would you pay $ 5 less to have a nice suit improperly cleaned elsewhere when these people do a darn good job for what we found to be a perfectly reasonable price?
The service was excellent, quality was perfect and super efficient, and the employees were friendly and accommodating. A++ experience!

ok this review is overdue from about 4 weeks ago, I have bene athere a couple of times over the years when I lived in the city 1999 – 2005, I found a great Hugo Boss black mens suit perfect fit for $ 200 bucks at every thing cept for the length. I’m a 32 and the pants were 30 and with cuffs. I needed a suit by next day for two week long event that would make me a lot of money. and it was either this or a Target suit​.yuck​.so I go to Angela the seamtress/​tailor there at Locust present my dilemma and relying on her professional opinion if she can drop the cuff down to desired length and there won’t leave a crease and look retarded. if I bought the suit I owned it cause of no return policy at local consignment store.
She is always so so so nice and inexpensive too, she reassured me that 95% would go away if not whole crease. finally I decided to go with it, she would make changes necessary by next day because she is that nice and accommodating as a human being, I thanked and said I would be by to pick up 6 pm when they close on Saturday. I was coming down from Marin and it took an hour to get from Sausalito to the city, traffic was abnormally crazy. she waited and was so nice about it I got there at 620 and she was still so nice about everything.
I look rediculously good because of this suit and get compliments all the time about it/me.(all i need now is a very ncie caring, fun, positive attractive woman to fall in love with to be by my side while in the magical suit. LOL)
Why she gets the max…
1. Workmanship– 5 stars
2. Customer Service– 5 stars
3. Accommodating special circumstances-​5 stars
4. being a great person– 10 stars.
5. Being very inexpensive– 5 stars
Take your items there to Angela at Locust
The guy who runs the dry cleaning portion is very very nice too. I met him during this experience.
It’s a top notch classy place and deserves our loyalty to keep them in business.
Have a great week everyone.

I’ve been bringing my household’s dry cleaning here for 6 years, after a $ 110 experience at Peninou down the street — my bad for not knowing «French» meant «crazy expensive.» Anyway, I’ve always been 100% satisfied. That’s a lot of years and a lot of dry cleaning to never have had a problem. They are incredibly responsible, always being extra careful about delicate and/​or embroidered items I’ve taken in (without my prompting).
The best-​kept secret here are the alterations. The lady upstairs is great, and I’ve learned from some others that their changing rooms are actually an added bonus (how on earth would you have something altered without trying it on?!). I’ve had all sorts of things taken in, let out, or otherwise modified — and always been very satisfied.
Overall — great, friendly, neighborhood-​style service. Just don’t bring a credit card.