Our family has been coming to Gallery Place since it opened and we have always been extremely satisfied. Miky is welcoming and warm and always strives to make things perfect. We have used dry cleaning, alteration, and shoe repair services and all have been great. There are also discounts on certain days of the week. Gallery Cleaners is our neighborhood go-to for an array of services. read more

friendly service, my family and I have been using them opened many years ago.High quality and fast turnaround. Great location near Metro.

I wish I did my due diligence and read reviews for this place. sometimes, the convenience of a venue can be very costly. The older lady is rude and assesses the price based on I do not know what because when I asked for a price list she said they do not provide to the customer, only staff can see the price list. This alone should have been my red flag!!! I dropped off a blazer and one scarf expecting a reasonable price but when I picked up it ended costing me $55.00! There are numerous cleaners only a few more steps from this place, and the consumer knows in advance what the cost will be! if you can, do avoid this business. read more

Miky and her Sisters are extremely nice and professional. They are always friendly and warm. I like going there a lot. To me, they are a Neighborhood Essential! read more

Similar to others' stories on Yelp, Google Reviews, and other sites, I had an awful experience with this business. It has cost me hundreds of dollars. I urge others to stay away. After dropping off my suits to be cleaned, I was not given a ticket but told that my suits would be ready within a week. About two weeks later, I had not heard from the business and returned to ask about my suits. I talked with the owner who was working at the time. Initially, she told me my suits simply were not yet ready. After I pointed out the timeframe, she instead told me that they were at a separate location. I told her it was no problem, that I could drive to another location, but she refused to tell me the other location. When I asked how she could not know where my clothes were, she said that they (I'm not sure who she meant by "they") sometimes "just take things" but that I should have my suits back soon. When I asked again for the other location to ask directly about my suits, she refused again. Finally, she told me that it was probably another customer who had my suit and that it would be back soon. Unsure of what to do, I waited another week per her request. I still did not receive my clothes. After many delays, I asked for her to compensate me. She refused, talking down to me and saying that I was not being reasonable in doing so. She offered in-store credit, which I declined because (1) I wanted my suit, (2) I have nothing to dry clean but my suit, and (3) I was moving to California soon. Every time I asked about it again, she said it could not be her fault and that I was not being reasonable for wanting a replacement. Finally, I filed a small claims suit and we entered a repayment agreement before the Court. When I was in California (and therefore, not able to file and enforce our agreement), she stopped paying our legally-binding agreement. On a separate trip back to the DC area, I refiled but the only available small claims date was when I was back in California. I appeared remotely, but the connection was poor and the court told me to refile once I could be back in person in Virginia. The owner has continued to refuse to pay the amount agreed before the Court, but knows I am unable to refile to enforce the agreement. I have spent hundreds of dollars in filing fees and replacement costs that has not been covered. Going to this cleaner cost me my suits, lots of my time, hundreds of dollars, and a lot of headache. Please listen to my story and the story of others. read more

Terrible place and service. Ruined my white shirt with stains that were not there before I sent it in. Refused to refund, and the owner kept talking down to me to, saying its my shirt's fault/ I'm being unreasonable. This whole experience made me feel awful. Please don't go if you don't want to waste your time and money. read more

Great hidden gem for alterations, shoe repair as well as cleaning. The lady there is super nice, and always take great care when I have alterations. I'm always repairing hems on my professional suites, party dresses and she fixed the heels on my favorite pair of boots I thought sure I would have to throw out. Competitive pricing, I check around already so no worries there My first time I had a ton of stuff from traveling so she helped me out on cost Hard to find but worth it looking for the Dunkin' Donuts going up Wilson and it's right next door to the donut shop. read more

Honestly, trust the reviews on this one. I ignored them and am kicking myself for it. The people who work there are nice, but their work is awful. some things looked like they just threw it in the dryer, others looked like they didn't even try to get wrinkles out. read more

I washed a silk shirt with towels and it came out covered in white fuzz. Had no idea. thought the fuzz would magically remove itself in the dryer. The Korean couple here does such a good job, she removed all the fuzz herself with 7 lint roller sheets. god bless her. And it's not just the silk shirt, everything comes back looking great, fuzz free, pressed, clean, new looking. read more

Damaged what I brought in for dry cleaning. The owner Mickey is nice but was unable to repair the damage done.

I had to get a bridesmaid dress tailored for the first time, and was nervous about bringing it to a bad tailor that would ruin it. A friend recommended Mickey/Gallery Cleaners, since she has brought almost 10 dresses there to get tailored over the years. Mickey did a really good job with the bridesmaid dress I brought in. The dress had somewhat complicated straps that needed to be shortened. She turned it around within a week, and was also fair in her evaluation of what needed to be tailored. She told me not to waste my money on too many complicated nips and tucks on the dress, since I will only wear it once. I appreciated that she wasn't trying to make money off of a bunch of unnecessary changes to the dress. In total, it only cost me $20 for the bridesmaid dress alterations. I also brought in a few dresses that needed to get the hemmed fixed, and she turned those around quickly as well. It was about $15-$20 per hem. I would definitely recommend! read more

I was in town for business and had to drop off a couple items. They were really polite and the turnaround was amazing. Everything was clean and perfect. Thank you so much! read more

Awesome service fast and friendly and they do a great Jon on high end shoe repair. With so many places closing, if you are looking for a new cleaner and shoe repair store this is the one to go to and they have off street parking across from the courthouse. read more

The owners and staff were friendly, however, they safety pinned my skirt to the hanger rather than clipping it creating two pulls/holes in the front. For the price they charge I do not recommend using this place. I have had previously mediocre experiences. read more

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Definitely the best place to go to get dry cleaning and alterations. Great prices and great sisters who run the place. I recently went in for an emergency alteration on a Wednesday night and they were able to get my pants hemmed and tapered and back to me Thursday evening for no extra rush fee, only a promise to give them more time next time. I will never go anywhere else. read more

I have been a happy customer at this cleaner for over two years now and will continue to go back after my experience last week. I had rented a tuxedo from an online store for a wedding and needed the pants hemmed ASAP. One of the sisters stayed late so I could get them back the next day and make my travel plans work out. She went above and beyond and the hem looks perfect. If you want personalized service where they remember your name and get quality dry cleaning done, go here! read more

I had such a horrible experience at Gallery that it warranted a scathing Yelp as soon as I got home. Located in the 2201 Wilson apartment building next to the worst Quizno's ever. The sign outside promises "DRY CLEANING 20% EVERY DAY!! ($20 minimum)" After my previous dry cleaner shredded the buttons I figured I would try a new place out. Seeing as how I haven't done dry cleaning in weeks, 20% seemed like a good perk. Miss Virgina 2002 adorns the wall with a signed photo thanking Gallery for making her dress so pretty. What better endorsement could you have? I dropped off 4 pants and 12 shirts. They were promised the next day... not bad! Shirts were like a $1.25, not bad either. Pants were over $4... wawaweewa!? So I return the next day, eager to see Gallery Cleaners' handiwork. Luckily I am broke and the receipts were still about the only thing in my wallet. I told the woman my name and she goes to her receipt rack to look for my 2 slips. No dice. She proceeds to ask if I was even a customer because they don't have receipts so there's no record of me dropping anything off. Whip out the receipts... her method of now looking by the number involves shuffling the stack of incoming receipts on the table that she had already pored through and moving them slowly. Somehow she was going to miracle them to appear before our very eyes. Next she told me something in a half Korean half English creole. Not catching it, I (politely) said sorry, I didn't understand... so then she yelled at me that she was calling the "factory". She got no good answer from this factory so then yelled at me that other customers were waiting. This is where Gallery Cleaners begins to shine. The next guy that came in hit the jackpot, they had his name on file! But it was only a temporary high... they couldn't find his shirts either! Again, it was the factory or the customers fault somehow. Same deal with him, he was yelled at to move aside for a third customer. Guy three actually got his shirts, so he's somehow made a pact with Satan for this luck. After number three leaves and no more customers are coming through, dry cleaning lady gets back to us. Everything is blamed on the factory and she goes through the 10 receipts on her table again. Then she starts playing what I will call the name-game. "This is you!" as she points to slip with a name that starts and ends with the same letter (ignoring the fact that my "new name" is about twice as long as my actual name). Note: I am not actually Roy from the office. We then went around the conveyer belt thing looking at all the dry cleaning. "This is you!" again at all of the men's shirts with names that start with the same letter. Not seeing any of my shirts I was getting hopeless after 25 minutes in Gallery. "See this nice shirt!!!" as she tried to convince me a parcel of several shirts that may (or may not) have fit me were mine to take home. To guy with the dark blue Calvin Klein shirt at Gallery: you dodged a dry cleaning bullet. She goes to some rack that hadn't been looked at in the 30 minutes I was there and found my pants. I pay for those, at this point fantasizing about "cleaning out" Gallery and having them buy me 12 new shirts. Time to pay the pants bill. Since my total bill would've been $34 I asked her if I could still have the 20% off. She laughed at me. Then she explains that 20% off only applies to some dry cleaning. The sign doesn't say this but expecting anything more than failure from this place is a pipe dream. No apology of any sort, or even a courtesy discount, just a blame on this "factory." So I leave with my pants only and the second guy still standing there. To that guy: I hope you found your clothes. He was pretty pissed since he said he actually needed the clothes. Common sense said someone had a late night Macy's run. I came back the next day expecting to have to argue to get some sort of compensation for lost clothing. Surprisingly they actually had my shirt! Again no discount or apology, just this time a friendlier blame, laughing as she kept blaming the factory. I guess that's a passive apology? So I will be passing on ever going back to this evil craphole after my amazing first experience. The other cleaner ruins my buttons but I actually come home with shirts. They even use a computer there to keep track of customers. Update: I took the plastic off the shirts last night before dinner. They were abyssmal. Tiny wrinkles and folds all over, with some sort of brown substance on the inside of the cuffs. Bad enough that it would warrant taking them back to have them redone. It was so impossible to get the shirts the first time, I'm not bothering. So there you have it, terrible service, terrible dry cleaning. read more

"Lost" my dress and blamed me. I'm not one for writing reviews, but this place is an exception. I had been taking my dry-cleaning here based on the reviews, convenient location, and friendly demeanor from the sisters that run the place. So, when my girlfriend had a small stain on a dress, I immediately offered to take the dress with my dry cleaning to this place to see if they could work some magic. I went back a week later to pick up my dry cleaning and the dress. I gave them my ticket and when they returned the dress, I noticed that the stain was still there. Not a big deal. I showed them the stain and they said to leave it with them and that she would personally try to get the stain out without charge. I thought "Wow, these people are amazing." I told them I was travelling and would be back in a week and a half for the dress. Since I already handed in my ticket and it was free of charge, I didn't get a receipt for pickup. I didn't think anything of it until I came back to pick up the dress. The woman working was not the one I dealt with a week and a half prior but didn't see that as an issue. After giving my number for lookup on the computer (since I didn't have a ticket), the woman came back with "there's nothing in here for that number." That's weird. I explained that I didn't have a ticket and that her sister told me she'd try to get the stain out personally. She then called her sister to figure out what was going on. It was put on speaker, so I could speak to her as well. She explained that she remembers me, and she unfortunately could not get the stain out and that I came to pick up the dress already. I was at a loss. I was not in again to pick up the dress. I explained that was not possible as I was out of town. I decided to go back and check my apartment just in case and searched through everything. Nothing. I went back the next day and fortunately the sister that I originally dealt with was working. I explained that there was no way I picked up the dress and that they have it. She apologized while still arguing that I picked it up but told me that she would search throughout the warehouse that they take all their dry-cleaning to (they apparently do none of the actual dry cleaning there) and to come back in a few days. I came back two days later and still no dress. She again argued that I picked it up and then told me she looked everywhere. I asked for the number and location of the warehouse and she refused. After calling around several places, I found where they take their cleaning and talked to someone there. I drove there to personally search and once the person understood that I was looking for a dress that was lost by this place, they had me leave. This back and forth with the sisters went on for weeks. She eventually settled to pay me half of what the dress was worth. I can confidently say that I will never go here for anything again. The sisters running this place are not to be trusted. read more

Unfortunately, they were great a year ago, but in the last few months they've really gone downhill. It's sad because they're so convenient right in the Archstone, but I've had to take things back several times in the last few months. They've fixed the problems each time for free (which is why they got 3 stars instead of 2), but that's just not enough when I have to bring the same shirt back more than once on multiple occasions. My girlfriend also uses them and she's never had any problems, so maybe it's only with men's shirts. But I've had broken buttons, dirt stains as if it was dropped and not cleaned off, noticeable creases, etc. They're so convenient, but I'm going to have to try someone else at this point. Who knows, though, maybe no one in this area is better. We'll see! read more

I really hate writing a bad review for this place; the people that work there are just as nice as they can be. First, they shrank one of my boyfriend's suits. Second, the stretched my favorite sweater out so bad that it could almost be worn as a dress. I never confronted them, because, frankly, I just didn't have the time or energy. I will never go back. read more

I went here on the recommendation from a friend. I brought them a gray suit to be dry cleaned for a job interview I had the following week. I brought it in on a Thursday (job interview was on the following Tuesday.) The lady at the cleaners said that the suit would be ready in two days, on that Saturday. When I arrived she said that they were not able to find my garment and that I should check back on Monday. I called back on Monday, and she told me that they still couldn't find my suit and for me to check back the next day (the day of my interview.) I ended up wearing a different suit to the interview and am STILL trying to get back my suit from them. All the other reviews seem nice, but my experience with them has been dismal. read more

Gallery Cleaners was recommended to me by a friend for alterations. Their prices are pretty in line with the area, given how expensive it is to live in Rosslyn/Clarendon. But worth it! Alterations - 5 stars The wife of the Korean couple that runs this place went to fashion design school, so she's knowledgeable about fit and how to tailor well. She did a good job on hemming and taking in the butt for some pants for me. My friend who recommended them -- and who is very picky about her fashion and very vocal when she's unhappy -- had several bridesmaid dresses altered and was thrilled with the results. Dry Cleaning - 5 stars I moved out of Arlington & took a one-color silk blouse with a small stain to another cleaner near my new home. Got it back with the stain intact. He claimed they tried to remove the stain (I have my doubts) but couldn't get it out without taking some color out of the blouse. So I trucked 20 minutes to Gallery Cleaners and asked the wife if they could try it. The blouse came back perfect! Oh, how I wish I still lived nearby... read more

DISASTER!!!! The most dishonest business I have ever had to deal with. Very bad cleaning!!! The dry cleaned piece usually comes back the same way it was sent out and if you complain, they say: well that stain if from your body.!!! Very dishonest! I really don't think that they clean the clothes. read more

This was my first and last time I will be coming here. I came for a simple repair and also saw the charge amount per item. Imagine my shock when I to to pick up and get a $97 bill. This place over charged way too much for the service that was required. When I expressed my shock the lady just stood and smiled and said "Thank you." I feel ripped off and do not feel I got the value of service for the over priced charges. read more

Miky is awesome! The previous owner and her husband were very nice, too, but I've had really good experiences with the new owner, Miky, She is super nice, genuine and very professional! The turnaround time is quick, too. I'm a repeat customer for sure! read more

I'm giving this cleaners a poor review mainly because of the parking situation. Nothing special about the dry cleaners, but for peace of mind, I encourage everyone to go somewhere else where you don't have to worry about getting towed. There is a tiny lot and the dry cleaner has signs up for 3 spots. The problem is that Advanced Towing hides behind the dumpster, waits for people to park and watches to see which door they enter. If they happen to go into the Dunkin Donuts right next door, they get towed immediately. In the fifteen minutes I was there, I watched Advanced Towing attempt to tow TWO cars after mine. The issue is that the parking spots aren't clearly marked. It's so bad, it's to the point that even the dry cleaning customers were running out with Dunkin Donuts customers to see if their cars were in violation. Noone seems to have a clue what's going on. People naturally assume it's ok to park in the unmarked spots since only three of the spots in the lot are designated for the dry cleaner. The only people this benefits is the towing company as they are more than happy to sit and wait for unsuspecting customers to leave their cars while they swoop in for a quick "drop fee". When I complained to the tower that there was no sign saying I couldn't park there, and the spots appeared to be free for a customer of either establishment, he bluntly told me there didn't need to be a sign. I don't know about you, but whether you're going for dry cleaners or donuts, who needs this headache. Avoid this spot. read more

I can't say enough good things about Miky. I started going there because of its convenient location, I kept coming back because of their excellent service. I highly recommend Gallery Cleaners to anyone who lives or works in the Courthouse area. read more

I've never gotten clothes dry cleaned here but took some pants to be hemmed. They were not particularly friendly but were professional, quick, and the pants turned out well. I would go back. read more

Awesome service, fairly priced, & great family who owns/runs the store.

Without a doubt this most garbage dry cleaning establishment I have ever been to in my life! The first time I dropped off clothes I notice that their sign says that they open at 7, which I believed to be a great deal for me because I could pick up my clothes before work in plenty of time, and it was close to my house. The woman seems very friendly and they said my clothes would be ready the next morning when they opened. Thought I had found my place. Oh how wrong I was... I showed up at 7 on the dot, thinking they would be open only to find out they weren't yet, so I decide to wait thinking they will be there shortly and are simply running late. 35 mins. later...the proprieters finally pull up. They pull up next to my car and instead of waving me in, the man with the woman who I dropped my clothes with bangs twice on the side of my car as if to let me know that I can come in now. I'm not talking love tap, I mean BANGED on the side on my car, while not even making eye contact with me. I go inside where the woman I dropped off with proceeds to sit down and start eating, so the man goes to the register. I decided to put aside the fact that he rudely banged on my car outside and hand him my tickets. He takes the ticket without saying a word and goes to get my clothes. About 5 min later he comes back with about 25 shirts and 15 pairs of pants...I dropped off 2 pants and 4 shirts. I say to him these are not my clothes, meanwhile finding out that the reason he has not spoken to me is due to the fact that he does not speak a word of english. He calls the woman over, who comes over to register with a look of complete disgust on her face that I have interrupted her. She remedies the problem quickly and goes back to what she is doing, without offering a receipt or even a pen to sign her copy. I sign and leave. I go back to change into the clothes that I had just gotten back, a little in awe of how bad service was, only to find out that the very shirt I put on to wear to work has a hole in it that was NOT there before...just a cherry on top of an absolutely horrible experience at this place. Not only do I not recommend this place, I feel sorry for anyone that trusts these people. I only wish there was less than 1 star to give them. read more

If you need alterations stay far far away! After one bad experience here with hemming pants I made the mistake of giving them a second chance. I have never seen such sloppy sewing. The hems on each pair (four in total) are a wobbly mess and they didn't even bother to clean off the chalk or clean up the loose threads. I could have done a better job myself. Will never use them again. I don't even trust them to fix the mess they made... read more

I do not suggest this place! Took several items and every single thing came back with new spots, not to mention I got a call a week later saying they had forgotten to give back a dress of mine. Went in for the dress and they had no record of it and said it was no longer there. Now I have stains on my clothes and a missing dress. read more

I recently moved and started going to this cleaner at the recommendation of a work friend. They have reasonable turnaround, a few parking spots and the nicest staff. read more

I moved to Courthouse in August and have had at least 5-6 pairs of my pants tailored here. Miky could not be nicer or more helpful when it comes to helping me get the best fit. I will not be taking my clothes anywhere but here because these guys do the job perfect each time read more

inexpensive for the area... i use them bi-weekly... pick from my building's front desk and return within 2 days... just don't ask for heavy starch (which ever service they use to actually clean the clothes puts enough starch on everything)... stick to the basics... consider an expert place for anything other than shirts, pants, and suits. read more