Mike Easton Pauses Bar Bacetto for New Role at Abeja

Mike Easton with Abeja’s Dan Wampfler and Amy Alvarez-Wampfler. Just doing some R&D, all casual-like.

Mike Easton is putting Bar Bacetto on a “permanent hiatus” to take a job as executive chef at Abeja, the well-regarded Walla Walla winery. Specifically at the Kitchen at Abeja, the restaurant space within the winery’s idyllic farmstead, which also includes a boutique inn.

“I wouldn’t have made this decision for any old job,” says Easton about this unexpected move. And while he obviously processed a lot of feelings to get there, “I feel great about it.”

In his new role, he will oversee five- and seven-course prix fixe menus at the

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