Neighborhood: Old City - Society Hill
Parking: Street and valet parking.
Handicap access: Wheelchair accessible (from rear of building)
Handicap access: Wheelchair accessible (from rear of building)
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No chef in the city is creating food as thrillingly personal and well-executed
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Israeli food comes in off the street, in several guises - haute tastings, homey tapas, chicken-soup soul.
At fortress Zahav, perched aloofly (up three flights of garden steps) above the cobblestones of Old City, Michael Solomonov, at 29, is burnishing his credentials as one of the city's most thoughtful chefs.
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Cuisine type: Middle Eastern
Meals Served:
Dinner - Mon. thru Sun.
Style:
Israeli street food meets modern brilliance in the hands chef Michael Solomonov, whose wood-fired Society Hill kitchen turns out some of the most evocative and inventive little dishes in the city, from charcoal-grilled duck kebabs to fried cauliflower, soulful pomegranate-braised lamb shoulder and hummus so good it redefines hummus. The personable and knowledgeable servers ably guide diners through the small-plate menu (best in the affordable tasting meals), as well as a stand-out Israeli wine list that helps make Zahav a completely transporting experience.
Specialties:
Salatim and hummus (foul, masbacha or Turkish variations); laffa; Yemenite soup; crispy haloumi; fried cauliflower; house-smoked sable; fried sweetbreads; grilled duck hearts; Jerusalem kugel; grape leaves; kibbe naya; duck kebab; chicken shashlik; crispy branzino; lamb shoulder; kataifi; basboosa; hazelnut-date rugelach. Small plates, $7-$12; Tayim five-plate menu, $38; Ha'yom six-plate menu, $48.
Alcohol:
An affordable beer and wine list, and a fanciful cocktail menu — a mint-juleplike classic lemonnana; Marble Rye infused with pumpernickel and caraway; and a gin Israeli Salad Martini with tomato and cucumber water.
Hours: inner Sunday through Thursday, 5-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, until 11 p.m.
Prices:
$$$
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