New Menlo Park wine bar now open

Menlo Park has a new wine bar, tucked into the residential Willows neighborhood.

Haven Wine & Cheese, which opened its doors June 21, was launched by two single moms, Sam Martinez-Colson and Lea Redmond, who raised their now-adult children in the quiet neighborhood bounded by Willow Road, Highway 101 and the San Francisquito Creek.

“We’ve been talking about it for 16 years,” says Martinez-Colson. Initially, Redmond had talked about wanting to open a tea shop someday, and Martinez-Colson...