Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Calistoga from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Calistoga
Calistoga’s formal dining is led by one starred table, with one other room holding Michelin Plate recognition and a third built around a strong wine list.
Auro is the city’s Michelin-starred table, set at Four Seasons Resort and Residences Napa Valley in Calistoga. Its seven-course tasting menu blends contemporary American cooking with Mexican inspiration and French techniques, and the 475-label wine list is weighted toward California and France. It also holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence.
Solbar at Solage, Auberge Resorts Collection, serves Modern American Farm-to-Table cooking in Calistoga, with reworked American classics and a focus on local ingredients. It has back-to-back Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025, plus an extensive wine list and craft cocktails.
TRUSS Restaurant and Bar is a Calistoga brasserie with American-Mediterranean cooking, house-harvested caviar, and sweeping vineyard and Palisades Mountain views. Its wine program is exceptional, and it holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence.
Calistoga’s serious drinking runs through winery rooms and estate tastings, where the wine programs are often the main event.
Clos Pegase Winery & Tasting Room is a Calistoga winery stop with an exceptional wine program. The setting includes Michael Graves architecture, ancient Greek-inspired design, fine art, and underground caves.
Eisele Vineyard is a historic estate in Calistoga making single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon from the same vineyard site since 1971. It is managed biodynamically by Artemis Domaines and has half a century of vintage continuity. The vineyard holds a Falstaff listing for 2026.
Chateau Montelena Winery sits in Calistoga and holds a Falstaff winery listing for 2026. At the 1976 Judgment of Paris, the estate’s wine finished first in the white wine category.
Calistoga has 1 Michelin-starred restaurant in our guide. That table is Auro in Calistoga, and it also holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. Auro serves a seven-course tasting menu and has a 475-label wine list weighted toward California and France.
The strongest wine programs in our guide are at Auro, TRUSS Restaurant and Bar, Solbar, and Clos Pegase Winery & Tasting Room. Auro and TRUSS hold Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence, and all four have exceptional wine programs.
2 venues in our guide hold Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence: Auro and TRUSS Restaurant and Bar. Both are in Calistoga. Auro pairs the award with a Michelin star and a 475-label list, while TRUSS combines the award with an exceptional, sommelier-led wine program.
Auro in Calistoga is the tasting-menu table in our guide. It offers a seven-course tasting menu, a Michelin star, and a 475-label wine list weighted toward California and France, with Auro in Calistoga at the centre of the formal dining list.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Auro holds a Michelin star and AAA 5 Diamond rating inside the Four Seasons Resort and Residences Napa Valley, where Chef Rogelio Garcia applies a rigorously seasonal, California-sourced approach to contemporary fine dining. A 475-label wine list weighted toward California and France, overseen by Wine Director Derek Stevenson, gives the room serious depth. For Calistoga, it sits at the summit of the formal dining tier.
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Situated along Silverado Trail in Calistoga, TRUSS Restaurant and Bar draws a loyal local following under chef Rogelio Garcia. The wine-country address positions it within Napa's broader dining corridor, where the balance between produce-driven Californian cooking and serious valley viticulture defines the room.
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Solbar at Solage in Calistoga holds back-to-back Michelin Plate recognition (2024 and 2025) for its California-rooted cooking, set within the Auberge resort on Silverado Trail.
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In a wine country town where tasting menus and resort dining set the dominant tone, Buster's Original Southern BBQ at 1207 Foothill Blvd offers a deliberate counterpoint: smoke, char, and the kind of low-and-slow tradition that has nothing to prove to Napa Valley's fine-dining establishment. It's the kind of place that locals return to on instinct, not occasion.
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On Lincoln Avenue in the heart of Calistoga, Café Sarafornia occupies the casual end of a dining scene otherwise defined by resort restaurants and high-end wine country tasting menus. It draws a local crowd alongside visitors who want something grounded and unfussy after a day in the valley. The address puts it squarely in the walkable downtown strip where Calistoga's working-town character is most legible.
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Campo Poolside belongs to Calistoga’s relaxed end of Napa Valley dining: sun, water, and a menu that makes sense between winery appointments rather than after a formal tasting menu. Its value is contextual, not ceremonial, especially in a town where fine dining, barbecue, cafés, and resort restaurants sit unusually close together.
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Kenefick Ranch sits in the northern reaches of Calistoga, where the Napa Valley floor gives way to rockier, more volcanic soils that register differently in the glass than the valley's more celebrated mid-section. The address on Pickett Road places it at the quieter edge of the appellation, a location that shapes the character of what the ranch produces and how visitors experience it.
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LOLA Wines pairs winery tasting with small plates and a quiet garden-and-wine-cellar setting; the extensive wine list suits a leisurely stop.
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On Calistoga's main drag, Pacifico Mexican Restaurant serves as the town's longstanding Mexican anchor at 1237 Lincoln Ave, a reliable counter to the wine-country fine-dining circuit that dominates the wider Napa Valley. The format is casual and the crowd is local, positioning it squarely in the everyday-dining tier that visitors often overlook when planning a trip around tasting rooms and resort restaurants.
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Sam's Social Club sits at 1712 Lincoln Ave in the heart of Calistoga, where the northern Napa Valley's spa-town rhythm sets the pace for relaxed, convivial dining. The room trades on a casual confidence that separates it from the white-tablecloth formality found elsewhere in the valley, making it a natural anchor for visitors and locals who want good food without ceremony. It occupies a distinct register in Calistoga's growing dining scene.
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Set on a working vineyard at the northern tip of Napa Valley, Four Seasons Resort Napa Valley holds a Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star rating, a Michelin Key, and a Michelin-starred restaurant in Auro. The 85-room property in Calistoga combines wine country access with estate winemaking, spa programming rooted in local tradition, and room rates from $2,670 per night that reflect its position at the summit of the valley's luxury tier.
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A château-style mansion in Calistoga that sat abandoned for fifty years before its 2018 transformation into an eight-room boutique hotel, The Francis House pairs restored nineteenth-century stone walls with French country interiors and rates from $850 per night. Communal breakfasts, fragrant herb gardens, and a stone firepit position it firmly in Napa Valley's intimate, design-led accommodation tier.
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Solage sits at the quieter, northern end of Napa Valley in Calistoga, where the collection of standalone bungalows and a celebrated mud bath spa program define a distinctly California approach to luxury: unhurried, tactile, and grounded in local tradition. Part of the Auberge Resorts Collection, the property pairs nationally recognized dining with wellness programming rooted in Calistoga's geothermal heritage, making it a different proposition from the more formal resort formats found further south in the valley.
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Dr. Wilkinson's Backyard Resort & Mineral Springs sits at the center of Calistoga's geothermal wellness tradition, occupying a property that SB Architects reimagined while preserving its mid-century character. The resort draws guests seeking mineral spring access alongside genuine accommodation, placing it in a category between destination spa and classic California motor lodge.
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Indian Springs Calistoga occupies one of the oldest continually operating resort sites in California, anchored by a geothermal mineral pool fed by volcanic springs that have drawn visitors to the northern end of Napa Valley for well over a century. The property's Mission Revival architecture and mature palm-lined grounds place it in a distinct tier among Calistoga's spa-focused accommodations, sitting between the design-forward Solage and the more utilitarian Motor Lodge end of the market.
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Clos Pegase sits on Dunaweal Lane in Calistoga, at the northern end of Napa Valley where the valley floor narrows and the temperature swings grow more pronounced. The postmodern winery building, designed by architect Michael Graves, made Clos Pegase among the more architecturally discussed estates in American wine when it opened in the 1980s. It remains a reference point for visitors who want both serious wine and a considered aesthetic setting in one stop.
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Eisele Vineyard in Calistoga has produced single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon from the same Pickett Road site since 1971, placing it among Napa's longest-tenured estate addresses. Allocation-driven access and a half-century of vintage continuity make it a reference point for serious California collectors.
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Diamond Creek Vineyards has produced single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon from Diamond Mountain since 1972, making it one of Napa's earliest advocates for terroir-specific bottlings. Visits to the mountain property place the wines in direct physical context with the soils that define them.
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With a first vintage dating to 2010, the project has built a measured reputation at the northern end of Napa Valley. Visitors seeking allocation-tier California wine will find this address worth tracking.
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Winemaker Mark Aubert has built an allocation-driven model that positions the label firmly in California's upper tier of small-production, site-expressive wine. Access typically runs through a mailing list.
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Chateau Montelena has anchored Calistoga's northern end since its first vintage in 1973. The estate is inseparable from the moment that reframed how the world assessed American wine, and its cellar program continues to shape how Napa Cabernet ages. Visiting means engaging with one of California's most consequential winemaking records.
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Newton Vineyard has been producing wine from its Calistoga estate on Tubbs Lane since 1987. The property sits in the northern reaches of Napa Valley, where elevation and volcanic soils shape a distinctive style. For those who return season after season, the draw is less novelty than precision accumulated over nearly four decades of single-estate focus.
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Peter Michael Winery operates from a remote perch above Calistoga on Knights Valley's volcanic slopes, producing Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon under winemaker Robert Fiore since its first vintage in 1987.
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Twomey Cellars sits on Dunaweal Lane in Calistoga, the quieter northern reach of the Napa Valley corridor where the valley floor narrows and the pace slows. The tasting experience here is structured around the progression of the wines themselves, not spectacle.
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Frank Family Vineyards sits on Larkmead Lane in Calistoga, at the northern end of Napa Valley where the valley floor widens and volcanic soils shift the character of Cabernet in measurable ways.
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Larkmead Vineyards sits at the northern end of the Napa Valley in Calistoga, where the valley floor widens and the diurnal temperature swings are among the more pronounced in the appellation.
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Among Napa Valley's sparkling wine specialists, Schramsberg Vineyards in Calistoga occupies a distinct position: a producer whose cellar history and sustained critical recognition place it well above the valley's entry-level fizz tier.
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Perched above Calistoga on a volcanic knoll at the northern tip of Napa Valley, Sterling Vineyards delivers an aerial perspective on the valley floor that few properties in the appellation can match.
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Located on Grayson Avenue in St. Helena, the property sits within one of Napa Valley's northernmost appellations, where volcanic soils and geothermal influence shape a distinct house style. Advance planning is advisable given the prestige tier the winery occupies.
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Bennett Lane Winery sits on Highway 128 at the northern edge of Napa Valley, where Calistoga's volcanic soils and warm growing conditions shape a distinctive Cabernet-focused program. Visitors arrive for structured tasting experiences within a setting that reflects northern Napa's unhurried, estate-forward character.
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Carter Cellars sits on Tubbs Lane in Calistoga, operating at the upper tier of Napa Valley's small-production winery circuit. For visitors prioritizing depth over volume, Calistoga's northern Napa address adds an extra layer of remove from the valley's busier southern corridor.
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Castello di Amorosa is a 121,000-square-foot, authentically constructed 13th-century Tuscan castle and working winery in Calistoga, California. The property places Napa Valley architecture and Italian winemaking tradition in direct conversation with each other.
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Chaix Wines operates within Calistoga's tightly held tier of prestige producers. The label sits in the upper bracket of Napa Valley's allocation-driven winery scene, where viticulture philosophy and sourcing decisions carry more weight than volume. For visitors to California's northern wine country, it represents the kind of specialist producer worth tracking down.
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Clos Pegase Winery sits on Dunaweal Lane in Calistoga, where its postmodern architecture sets it apart from the valley's more traditional tasting rooms. For milestone occasions or considered wine tourism, it offers a more structured and architecturally distinctive alternative to the region's Cabernet-heavy mainstream.
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The address alone signals something about terroir ambition: Diamond Mountain AVA is one of Napa's smaller, steeper sub-appellations, and producers here tend to make wines that reflect that geological specificity rather than chase broad commercial appeal.
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Davis Estates sits on Silverado Trail North in Calistoga, where Napa Valley's northernmost appellation produces some of its most structured Cabernet Sauvignon. For visitors drawn to the upper end of the Calistoga winery circuit, it represents a purposeful stop.
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Girard Winery sits on Dunaweal Lane in Calistoga, one of Napa Valley's northern wine corridors where the valley narrows and the heat accumulates. The property represents a deliberate, place-rooted approach to Napa winemaking that rewards visitors who come prepared to engage seriously with the wines.
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The property sits on Tubbs Lane, a corridor associated with estate-scale viticulture at the upper end of the valley.
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Ladera Vineyards sits on Silverado Trail North in Calistoga. Set against the northern valley's volcanic soils and cooler mountain influences, the winery operates at the intersection of elevation-driven viticulture and critical recognition. For visitors approaching from St. Helena, it represents a considered stop in a corridor dense with serious producers.
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Tank Garage Winery operates out of a converted roadside service station on Foothill Boulevard in Calistoga. The format sits within a growing tier of Napa producers who treat the tasting room as an extension of their wine identity rather than a separate retail exercise. For visitors working through northern Napa's winery circuit, it represents one of the more purposeful stops in the appellation.
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