Those timbers that workers shlepped into Zahav a few weeks ago went under the saw of Scott Walker, who calls himself a truss builder or timber framer. In short, Walker gets wood from old barns from his buddy, a timber recycler, and makes new stuff out of them.
Such as Zahav's bar -- a rough-hewn, 17-foot-long creation made out of 200-year-old oak from a barn somewhere in Bucks County. Took Walker about two weeks.
In the first photo, Steven Cook is in the back next to Michael Solomonov. Walker is in the foreground beside a special helper named Jim Beam. (Fiery fellow, that Jim Beam. Makes non-drinking bloggers take even blurrier photos.)
In the very back, at top left, will be the restaurant's wine-storage shelf. (Here's the same perspective in a previous photo.) To the right at rear will be the entrance to The Quarter, the fancier dining room.
In the bottom photo, Walker measures twice and cuts once as he prepares the support for the bar top. This photo was taken before the bar top was installed. The bar top sits at left.
