Silverado Ace Hardware

Great local hardware and paint store! The staff are so helpful and are very quick to ask you what you need and point you in the right direction. They will walk you to the aisle, answer any questions, and even walk you to the register. They also have a lot of products Made in the USA. This is your local mom and pop hardware store. The owners are awesome people and really care about customer service.

Love this store! An authentic local gem. We just moved to Calistoga and visited the store 2x each day our first week here. Good variety for everything for the house and garden… Ok, so they do not have the huge selection like the big box hardware stores, so what? And hey they sure are convenient with local charm and good service! Friendly helpful staff. Everything you need from a neighborhood hardware store. Love to support local shops like this!

This was a great stop during our breif visit to Calistoga. As is the case with most Ace Hardware stores, this shop had all the random things we were looking for! The employee’s were friendly and went out of their way to help us. (They even had a biscuit ready for our four-​legged shopping companion!). Thanks Ace!!!

Locals love it and its fun. These folks are helpful and don’t have the stuck-​up air you often find in the valley. Very nice people. Check out the cool oil cloth fabric you can buy by the yard. Very extensive assortment of household needs.

We are very weird, it is true! We both love to look at real hardware stores with bins and rounders of nuts and bolts… what can I say? Nostalgic, I guess… one item you don’t usually see that this one had was a real metal-​and-​wood washboard, not too widely used in our area :-) Maybe for all the jug bands up here…

This place is very unimpressive. It’s easier to drive down 29 and go to the Ace in St Helena or the Central Valley Builder supply because the two younger kids who work in here I feel like need to be beaten over the head to get any answers or service out of. I have never seen two kids look more vacant in my life. Just a… Blank… Stare… So weird! Anyway, the garden center leaves much to be desired, they do have a decent amount of household products but at ridiculous prices. The reason for the two stars instead of just one is because the store is clean and tidy and there is a parking lot. Other than that, I only come here when I absolutely have to even though they never seem to have what I need anyway.

So I was admiring the herb garden while the bf was looking for something like pipes or gloves or, i don’t know, a screwdriver (non-​alcoholic).
Suddenly, I hear someone approaching me from behind, and I turn just in time to see the top of boyfriend’s head duck under an azalea. Cat and mouse, eh? Oh THE HUNT IS ON!
So i start ducking and weaving through the sparse cover of potted plants, getting ready to sneak up on him. I can see the top of his hair through the basil on the other side of the isle. I sneak closer, then LEAP!
In mid-​air, I realize that my prey is, in fact, a middle-​aged woman who has bent over to check out the peonies on the bottom shelf. And she wasn’t playing cat and mouse with me.
At least that’s what she claimed. But we all knew who won.

You’ve got to be shitting me! No one’s reviewed this place yet?!
I tell you what, outside of Pagano’s, this is my favoritist hardware store in these here contiguous United States. (There’s a place in Lahaina that’s pretty cool.) I still have a pair of salt and pepper shakers I got from here years ago. You know the kind; little glass barrels with little glass handles and little tin lids. They are so fucking cute. If you don’t have any, you should get some. All the more reason to visit this place. Or Pagano’s.
While I don’t believe this joint has quite the selection of Pagano’s, it definitely does carry some items that Pagano’s doesn’t, due to its presumably more rural clientele. For example, Pagano’s doesn’t carry harrows, horse blinders, drawbars, yokes, or grain cradles. Neither does this place (I don’t think), but you get my drift. I just can’t think of any specific examples right now.
So go to Calistoga. Visit some wineries. Play some golf. Get a mud bath/​sauna/​rubdown/​etc. Do some shopping. Have a romantic meal. Get your freakity freak on. But save the very best for last: a trip to, whatchamacall, Silverado Ace Hardware. No visit to Calistoga would be complete without it.
And that’s the truth, Ruth.