Sausalito's Fall Moves Off the Waterfront and Onto Caledonia Street

At 5:45 p.m. on October 31, the Halloween parade will line up at the Station 1 Firehouse, at the corner of Johnson and Caledonia. By then the street will have been closed to cars for more than an hour. Two weeks earlier, the same street will host a beer, wine and spirits festival.

Both events fall on Saturdays, and both use Caledonia itself as the venue rather than a park or the Bridgeway promenade. This year the street also has a new late-night address at No. 37, which stays open well after both events wrap up. In November the calendar moves again, north toward Gate 5 Road and to the galleries at 750 Bridgeway.

October 17, Pine to Bee

A Toast to Sausalito runs from 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, October 17, on Caledonia between Pine Street and Bee Street. The City of Sausalito's Parks and Recreation Department presents it. The street festival is free and has interactive art, family activities, local vendors and merchants, and live music. The Beer, Wine and Spirits Festival inside it is ticketed separately. Sampling wristbands are for sale, and only 1,000 are available.

There is one house rule worth knowing before you go. The city asks people to leave their dogs at home that afternoon. Two weeks later, on the same street, dogs get a costume contest of their own.

The festival ends at 5 p.m. That is also when Notte Divino opens its doors on Caledonia.

The address that holds the street between events

Osteria Divino at 37 Caledonia closed earlier in 2026. The Marin Independent Journal reported in July that Jaxton Funk, a close friend of Elizabeth Nebot, its owner for 20 years, was reopening the space as Notte Divino with Johnny "Love" Metheny. Funk is a San Francisco bartender and bar manager who lives in an apartment above the restaurant. Metheny is a veteran San Francisco bar owner. The opening was set for July 24, with a ribbon cutting with the mayor and optional donations to UCSF cancer research.

"I walked past it every day and saw firsthand how much it meant to the neighborhood," Funk told the IJ. "When the opportunity came to help carry it forward, the goal was never to erase what people loved."

The kitchen is largely the same. Chef Yovani Castillo, who spent 12 years cooking at Osteria Divino, is back. The house-made focaccia, the oven-baked fennel with Parmigiano-Reggiano and the Brussels sprouts with butternut squash and pancetta are still on the menu, along with the beef ragù lasagna and the bucatini with lamb sausage. The room is mostly untouched apart from some paint touch-ups, and local artists' work will keep hanging on the walls. The team plans to keep Nebot's ties to the jazz community going, with several of her regular performers expected back for weekend shows.

The clock is what changed. According to the July report, Notte Divino is open from 5 p.m. to midnight Sunday through Thursday and from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. The kitchen closes at 10 p.m. The owners also told the IJ they planned to shift the bar from classic to craft cocktails. Drinks confirmed at the time included an Italian Sour topped with Lambrusco and the Serpente & Furore, made with green Chartreuse, gin, elderflower liqueur, lime and cucumber. The wine list leans toward southern Italian varietals.

Line those hours up against the October calendar. The Toast ends at 5 p.m. on a Saturday, right when Notte Divino opens. The Halloween closure ends at 9 p.m. on a Saturday, an hour before the kitchen stops taking orders and five hours before the bar closes. On both nights Caledonia now has an open door after the city's programming is over.

October 31, block by block

Halloween Sausalito uses more of the street than the Toast does. Here is the City's posted schedule for 2026, in order:

1. 4:30 p.m. Caledonia closes from Bridgeway near Johnson to Bee Street. The stretch from Bee to Locust is also closed until 9 p.m.
2. 5 to 5:30 p.m. Carved pumpkins are dropped off at Robin Sweeny Park. The contest takes a maximum of 26 pumpkins, and LED tea lights are welcome if you want yours lit for judging.
3. 5:45 p.m. Parade lineup at the Station 1 Firehouse, at Johnson and Caledonia.
4. 6 p.m. sharp. The parade steps off, trick-or-treating at participating businesses and homes along Caledonia.
5. About 6:15 p.m. The parade ends at Trick or Treat Lane on the Robin Sweeny Park basketball courts, where sponsors hand out treats from tables.
6. 6:30 p.m. The Howl'O'Ween Dog Costume Contest, sponsored by Soulmates, starts at Litho and Caledonia. Entry is free with no registration. Line up behind the sign for one category: Best Little Dog under 25 pounds, Medium Dog at 25 to 49 pounds, Best Big Dog at 50 pounds and up, or Best Couple for a human and dog.
7. Until 7:30 p.m. Pumpkin voting stays open. Winners are announced at the end of the dog contest.
8. 7:30 to 8 p.m. Pumpkin pickup.
9. 9 p.m. Caledonia reopens.

The parade starts at Johnson, ends at Robin Sweeny Park, and the dog contest gathers at Litho, so the night stays close to Caledonia from start to finish.

Johnson Street, where the parade lines up, also has a new restaurant this year. Lighthouse Bar & Grill opened April 1, 2026, at 303 Johnson. Kenneth Andresen runs it with his parents. When the IJ visited in April, the retail fish market and lobster tank were gone and the landlord had sanded and refinished the tables and chairs. The restaurant's own site now lists an 11 a.m. start on weekends with brunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., which makes it the daytime counterpart to Notte Divino's evenings.

November leaves the street for the studios

After Halloween, the public calendar goes indoors and away from Caledonia. The first stop is the Sausalito Center for the Arts at 750 Bridgeway. On Thursday, October 22, between the two Caledonia events, the Center hosts Ukraine: Beyond the Headlines, a talk with returning volunteer Ron Albert, from 6 to 8 p.m. The bigger event is SCA Open 2026, the Center's annual juried exhibition. It runs October 30 through December 6, with an opening reception on November 1.

The numbers show how fast the show has grown in its second year. The Center reports nearly 1,000 artists submitted 2,250 works this year, close to a 40 percent increase over the inaugural exhibition. Three jurors, from a museum, a gallery and an educational institution, chose 207 artists and nearly 300 works. Roughly one in five applicants made it onto the walls, which makes the show a fairly selective look at Bay Area work.

Two weeks later the calendar moves north. ICB/ART's The Big Open runs November 13 through 15, with nearly 100 artists opening their studios. The association calls it its biggest event of the year. It takes place at the Industrial Center Building, 480 Gate 5 Road.

The Friday preview overlaps with the start of Notte Divino's Friday hours, which run until 2 a.m. That leaves time to finish an evening of studio visits with dinner back on Caledonia before the kitchen closes at 10. So by mid-November the calendar has gone from the street itself to a gallery on Bridgeway to the Industrial Center Building on Gate 5 Road, and Caledonia is still the place to eat afterward.

A street that hosts two town events in one month is part of what homeowners nearby are trading on. If you own near Caledonia and wonder how that daily texture shows up in a home's value, Sherrie Faber is glad to talk it through quietly. Let's connect. Start with a confidential home valuation.