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Restaurant spotting: Where is David Haskell?

By Betty HallockDeputy Food Editor 
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David Haskell sold his WeHo wine bar, Bin 8945, early last year with the hopes of opening a bigger restaurant in a different location. The restaurant-going public has since been waiting. ‘The economy has made me delay over and over my plans to re-open,’ Haskell says. He recently left Jeffrey Best (Firefly, Habana, Mesa) as his director of operations and now is general manager at STK, the steakhouse on La Cienega. Haskell says he’s still looking for the right opportunity to open his own place again. ‘Ultimately, my goal would be to do a 20-seat, really fun wine bar, with housemade charcuterie, great cheeses, a much more relaxed atmosphere, where I can run it myself with one or two other people. Something that’s just fun and cool and leave it at that.’

-- Betty Hallock

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Betty Hallock

Betty Hallock is deputy Food editor at the Los Angeles Times. She has co-written four cookbooks, including “Bäco: Vivid Recipes from the Heart of Los Angeles,” “Amá: A Modern Tex-Mex Kitchen” and “Baking at République.” She started her journalism career at the Wall Street Journal and Scientific American in New York, worked on the L.A. Times’ Business desk, and was interim food editor at Los Angeles Magazine. Hallock also helped launch a food and nutrition vertical for wellness app RoundGlass. She’s a graduate of UCLA and New York University.

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