Uptown Tailors & Cleaners

Needed a quick, same-​day hem for my suit pants I bought the day before. Called him up, he said he could do it. Finished w/​in 3 hours. Super friendly Russian man. Jokes and awesome life story included. :) Def would go to him again for other alterations I may need in the future.

Such a great neighborhood tailor. Always had high quality and fast service here. Never a problem. Prices are fair too.

Didn’t have time to take my new jeans to Nordstrom so I take them to this tailor near my home off of good reviews… Paid in advance, $ 20 for a simple hem.
Pricey, thought whatever I’m sure they’ll look good.
Picked them up and my $ 250 Diesel jeans are ruined. Crooked stitches and double stitched in some areas. This is disgusting.
I brought it up to his attention and asked for a refund, partial at least. He refused. Said sorry it’s not that bad I’ll fix it. Not that bad? Really? This is a joke…
I hope Nordstrom can clean up this mess. Never again.
Update– took them to Nordstrom and they asked if I tired to do it myself. Couldn’t believe how bad this was, or that I paid $ 20. They fixed the hot mess free of charge since I’m a cardholder. Thanks Nordys!

Needed measurements for a tux for my friend’s wedding and the kind gentleman behind the counter obliged me free of charge. Definitely taking all my laundry and dry cleaning here from now on.

Hands down the best tailor! I recently moved to the city and had a hard time deciding where to take my suit to get tailored before a wedding. John was very personable and did an amazing job. I highly recommend him!

John is such a warm and humorous guy, it’s a real pleasure to take my garments into his shop.
I love the old school personal service, I really think John is a San Francisco gem.
I’ve had several items dry cleaned and he had done quite a lot of mending for me. He provides a top quality service and is extremely reasonable.
Thank you John!

I had a last minute wedding to attend and needed to get my suit altered same day. I called four other places and was told it couldn’t be done in such a short amount of time. I called Uptown Tailors and they were more than willing to take on the job and do it in less than a couple of hours. He did an fantastic job altering both my pants and jacket. Fit like a dream and it was done with great care and speed!

Brought two new suits in for tailoring since I live in the neighborhood. One just needed the pants hemmed, but the other needed a few extra alternations. Geoffrey turned the easy one around in 3 days and the other was done within a week — both for a very reasonable price. I definitely recommend Uptown Tailors.
edit: had to take the pants back on one of the suits to shorten a bit more, but he took care of it right away.

Yannis is the best. He’s the only tailor that I trust in SF, and he’s fair/​reasonable!

I’ve been going here for 7 years and Yannis has always done a terrific job with hems, patching and dry cleaning. Plus, its local Family business, a dying breed in this rapidly changing neighborhood. He’s a darling sweet man and you should give him your business!

Took a couple dress shirts here to be tailored (taken in at waist).
He charged me $ 15 each (which I think is about average) and got it done in 4 days.
The end product looks great and he did exactly what I asked.
He was very professional. Will return here for more tailoring in the future.

I hate to write this review because he’s so nice. I’ve been very chill snot him not having stuff done in the day he said it will be but his alteration mishaps are just too much. Twice he hemmed my shirts much too short and I brought him a gown that cost over a thousand dollars. I was wearing it for my brothers wedding. He did a shoddy job hemming it that you could see the line, like he folded over the fabric and just sewed so you could see the sewing line about a foot up the skirt. I’m very perplexed but didn’t want more damage to the dress so I just took it and wore it. I can’t ever go back though. If you have an important garment I would stay away.

A small and old school dry cleaner’s. The guy working there is a nice older gentleman who greeted me with a warm smile.
I stopped by on a Thursday and requested 2 dresses to be dry cleaned by Saturday morning which was not a problem. Picked up my dresses and everything seems to be great. Two dresses, $ 17.
I will certainly go back but just one thing to note. This is an old school dry cleaners with handwritten slips that are not automated so just keep that in mind.

This guy has been in the ‘hood for 30 years. Very old school and charming older man. I have had him Alter 8 Vintage Dresses for me and clean them too. His prices are competitive and he works within a weeks time. I will NEVER go to anyone else for alterations while he is open!

Excellent, reasonably priced dry cleaning. I’ll be bringing all my clothes here!

I have always come to Yannis for Alteration on my clothes he is the best… Smiley and friendly…

A little pricey but reliable, helpful, and friendly. I started going to Uptown as my local tailor and dry cleaner and have not turned back. He did a great job on tailoring my dress slacks and has great turnaround time for cleaning.

Even though there are many tailors and cleaners within walking distance of my apartment, this place is more than worth the drive across town! I found this place on Unilocal when looking for a tailor to fix the botch job the first place did on my five new, very nice suits. Yanni did a beautiful job! He also did a great job on my wife’s new suit. Moreover, Yanni’s prices are more than reasonable. The turnaround time is quick. I now take all my tailoring and dry cleaning to him.
I was not given any discount or any other type of compensation for this posting.

Hit or miss???
This place deserves some love. I brought my favorite old trench here in pretty shoddy shape. The gentleman fixed it right up. He put a new liner in and dry cleaned it for the very reasonable price of $ 35. Dry clean was $ 8. I wasn’t in any rush and told him to «do whatever it takes» to save my coat. He did just that. In his words «It’ll be good for another hundred years». My man.

After all of the positive reviews for this place I brought 3 pairs of jeans in:
Pair #1 was brand new and needed to be shortened
Pair #2 had been shortened (and botched) by another alterations place, so I brought them in to be fixed
Pair #3 had a hole in them and needed to be patched
I came in on a Saturday, mid-​day. There was one other customer as I came in, but I was greeted promptly and sent back to the changing room to try on my jeans. I could write the play by play but I’ll just say he seemed like he was in a huge hurry and just trying to get me out of there as fast as possible. The mark he made on my jeans was not even close to where I wanted them hemmed. He didn’t even bother to make chalk marks on the other pair that I wanted to fix.
I obsessed about the squiggly diagonal line on my jeans for several hours trying to convince myself that maybe he has a system: ½ inch below the little squiggly part of the left? Finally I decided to quit being nuts and just call him first thing in the morning to go back in and try them on again.
I called and he hadn’t hemmed them yet so I left work early and went back in on Monday (they close at 6). Despite the fact that I had talked to him about the situation that morning, he started giving me a hard time about why I wanted to try them on again and how I hadn’t brought the right shoes (for the record, I was wearing the shoes I planned to wear the jeans with). I had him re-​mark them, and the new mark was at least an inch lower. SO glad I went back.
The jeans were ready as promised on Wednesday and the length turned out how I wanted. He was also able to fix the other pair which was great. The patching looks crappy, but luckily it’s in a spot where no one will see it.
The only issue with the alterations themselves is the thread color. The hem on both pairs is much more orange than the original thread so it’s obvious I got them altered. Not the end of the world, but I haven’t had this problem at other places.
In the end, prices were reasonable ($ 25 for everything), and he did what I asked, but I felt like he had a bad attitude about the whole thing. If I hadn’t gone back to have him re-​do it, my $ 150 pants would have been way too short and completely ruined. He never even apologized for his mistake.
I have to say I’m really disappointed because I came in with such high hopes.