Zahav, the nuevo-Israeli restaurant that's been the subject of an Inquirer blog since last November, is saying May 5 for the opening.
Zahav's menu is a tasty-looking assortment of skewers, hot and cold mezze, salads, four different kinds of hummus, grilled sardines and Yemenite soup, and family platters of pastilla with rabbit and prunes, whole chicken and whole fish.
Skewers, the priciest single items, are $13 to $17, so figure on $35 a head. The bar will stock that Mideastern knock-'em-on-their-bottom favorite, Arak.
The fancier room off the main dining room is The Quarter, which will do a $65 prix-fixe menu that changes weekly. Examples might include Lobster & Mahleb, a preparation that infuses sweet and delicate lobster meat with the flavor of ground sour cherry pits, or sweetbreads wrapped in crispy chicken skin and served with tahini, or a poached egg in chicken consommé flavored with Yemeni spices.
Here's the main Zahav menu in PDF format and, for those who like things simple for a print-out, a web version
Here's the Zahav cocktail menu as a PDF and as web page.
And here's the dessert menu as a PDF and as a web page.
Reservations are now being taken through the website or through OpenTable.