On Tuesday this fall, none of downtown Calistoga's four newest or newly revived places will open their doors for you. Bubbles Calistoga, Five Senses, Eight North and the Calistoga Depot each set their own hours, and all four ended up with the same closed day. By Thursday afternoon every one of them is open, and the same few blocks feel like a different town.
That pattern matters more this year than usual because so much else downtown is moving at the same time. Lincoln Avenue is being repaved. One fitness studio has moved out to the fairgrounds. Two restaurants planned for historic buildings are on hold. Three town events between now and December 5 all fall on Saturdays. If you know which day you're working with, you can plan the next eight weeks around it.
The week, door by door
These are each business's current posted hours as of mid-October 2026. The Five Senses hours come from Calistoga Currents' July reporting.
Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu–Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bubbles Calistoga, 1120 Washington St. | Noon–7 p.m. | Closed | Closed | Noon–7 p.m. |
Five Senses, 1227 Lincoln Ave. | Closed | Closed | 3–8:30 p.m. | 3–8:30 p.m. |
Eight North, 1374 Lincoln Ave. | Open | Closed | Closed | Open |
Calistoga Depot, 1458 Lincoln Ave. | Open | Closed | Closed | Open |
On Wednesday, Five Senses is the only one of the four serving. Spencer Conaty, its owner and head sushi chef, built the room around a 25-foot sushi bar. Calistoga Currents reported that he priced the menu with residents in mind and that the 3 to 5 p.m. happy hour has become a favorite window for locals. That makes Wednesday at three o'clock the one midweek opening on this list.
Some daytime businesses keep different hours. Sarmentine's own locations page shows its bakery at the Depot address, 1458 Lincoln Avenue, open daily from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., even though the Depot's site shows the property closed Tuesday and Wednesday. Check the bakery's own listing before you walk over for a pastry midweek.
The newest door on the list
Bubbles Calistoga was the last of the four to arrive. A press release carried by Wine Business dated the lounge's opening to October 1, 2026. The concept is narrow on purpose. According to the lounge's website, it pours 20 sparkling wines by the glass, offers three themed flights, and sells roughly 60 bottles retail. Each flight is three 2-ounce pours: one from a local producer, one from a global producer, and one from a Champagne house. It launched with Paula Kornell from Napa, Ferrari from Italy and Laurent-Perrier from Champagne. The producers rotate every quarter, so the January list will look different from the October one.
The space has three rooms: a main bar with tables for flights, a lounge with sofas, and a private room with a table for ten. Founder Gregg Lamer previously held roles at Roederer Estate and Scharffenberger, Calistoga Currents reported in July. The paper also noted that the business applied for a state Type 41 license, which covers beer and wine but not spirits and requires a working kitchen. Small plates are served alongside the glasses.
Eight North shares Bubbles' closed days. According to the same Calistoga Currents roundup, it opened in November 2025 at 1374 Lincoln Avenue in the former Brannan's Grill space, which had been empty for nearly a decade. Executive chef Abby Burk cooks over a wood-fired grill, and much of the wine list comes from Lawer Estates' Calistoga and Knights Valley vineyards.
Where the midweek fills in
Several one-off dates this fall land on the days that are usually quiet:
- Wednesday, Oct. 14, 5 p.m.: Bubbles lists an Industry Open House, on a day the lounge is normally closed.
- Thursday, Oct. 15: The Rotary Club of Calistoga, chartered in 1924, holds its End Polio Now Torch Relay, which the City Council recognized with a proclamation on Oct. 6.
- Wednesday, Oct. 28: Four Seasons Resort Napa Valley lists a wine dinner at Auro with Hundred Acre.
Two of those three fall on a Wednesday, the day when only one of the four regular spots is serving.
Lincoln Avenue, under the paver
The street itself is also on a schedule. At the October 6 City Council meeting, City Manager Mitch Celaya said the contractor on the Lincoln Avenue water main had finished the final tie-in and that paving would follow. He also said Caltrans planned downtown pavement work from October 9 to October 23. Calistoga Currents' meeting report adds that Public Works hopes to extend the Lincoln Avenue paving toward Cedar Street.
Overnight work starts on October 19, overlapping the end of that window. A Caltrans notice covers State Route 29 and Lincoln Avenue from the SR-29/SR-128 intersection in Calistoga north to the Napa/Lake County line. One-way traffic control with flaggers will run from Monday, October 19, through Thursday, November 12, from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. The work depends on weather, and the notice warns of possible delays. If you drive home late over the mountain toward Middletown, expect waits. The notice lists no detour.
The downtown paving window closes eight days before the Halloween Parade, which uses the same pavement. Here is the calendar from now through the holidays:
- Oct. 9–23: Caltrans downtown pavement work.
- Saturday, Oct. 24, 2–4 p.m.: Trunk or Treat at the Fairgrounds, 1435 N. Oak St., with decorated cars, candy and hot dogs. It's free.
- Saturday, Oct. 31: The Halloween Parade lines up at Pioneer Park at 5:45 p.m., steps off at 6, and travels down Lincoln Avenue to Fair Way. It ends at 7 p.m. and is free.
- Saturday, Dec. 5, 7–8 p.m.: The Lighted Tractor Parade.
- Dec. 5 through Feb. 7: The Winter in the Wineries Passport, according to Visit Calistoga's events calendar.
All three town events fall on Saturdays, when every business in the table above is open. If you stay downtown after the Halloween Parade, Five Senses runs until 8:30 and the Depot and Eight North are both serving.
The doors that stay dark for now
Some downtown buildings will stay dark through this season. Theorem Vineyards owns the 1888 building at 1364 Lincoln Avenue, next to Eight North, which was planned as the tasting-menu restaurant Ilora. It also owns the brick Odd Fellows building at 1343 Lincoln, which carries an I.O.O.F. 1887 cornerstone and was planned as the more casual TR Bar. In late July, Calistoga Currents reported that both restaurant plans had paused while the winery works to merge the Odd Fellows building and the fenced lot next door at 1339 Lincoln into a single parcel. A May tourism feature had listed Ilora for fall 2026, before that pause was reported.
The Depot is only partly filled. The restored 1868 station, one of California's oldest surviving railroad depots, runs as a bar, distillery and music venue, with wine tastings at times. Earth & Sky Chocolates and the Sarmentine bakery operate there too. Several of the renovated railcars sat empty or opened only now and then when Calistoga Currents visited in July.
One business moved away from downtown for a while. Calistoga Fit closed its location at Calistoga Spa Hot Springs on July 31. On August 1 it opened a temporary training center at 2025 Grant St., in the former golf pro shop at the fairgrounds, with more than 4,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor space. A permanent Lincoln Avenue gym is planned for early 2027, Calistoga Currents reported on October 6. Premium members now use the geothermal mineral pools at Dr. Wilkinson's Backyard Resort & Mineral Springs, 1507 Lincoln Ave., and get discounts at the resort's restaurant, House of Better. If the gym moves back as planned, it will add one more open door to Lincoln Avenue, as the Theorem buildings would if those plans move forward.
For now, downtown's week is busiest from Thursday through Monday. Wednesday centers on Five Senses' happy hour, and on Tuesday the four newest places are closed.
Carolyn Roberts has followed Calistoga's downtown for nearly five decades, including which storefronts are filling and which buildings are waiting. If you'd like to talk about what Lincoln Avenue's next openings could mean for your part of town, Let's Connect.
