Is Zahav Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update (Philadelphia, PA)
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 8 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Current status
As of October 2026, Zahav is listed open on zahavrestaurant.com, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: an automated site check on 2026-09-08 found the business's own site live with a working online-ordering widget; a manual fetch the same day confirmed active menu, reservation, and gift-card pages linking to sibling ventures. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 8, Episode 2
- Address 237 Saint James Place, Philadelphia, PA 19106
- Website zahavrestaurant.com
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
"Best Thing I Ever Ate" featured Zahav's modern Israeli cooking, including its wood-fired dishes and hummus, in the "Feats of Meat" episode (S8E2). Zahav is a restaurant at 237 Saint James Place in Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood, run by chef Michael Solomonov and Steve Cook's CookNSolo restaurant group. According to an automated site check on 2026-09-08, the business's own site returned HTTP 200 with a working online-ordering widget, and a manual fetch the same day found active menu, reservation, and gift-card pages, including links to sibling ventures Galia Wine and Zahav Foods. No dated source was found reporting a closure or change in ownership.
The episode
Also in Season 8
Season 8: 63 of 80 still open · 5 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 1Au Cheval
Open - Open
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Ep 1Howlin' Rays
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Ep 1La Barbecue
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Ep 1Marcel
Open - Relocated
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Ep 2Salt & Char
Open -
Ep 2Tom, Dick & Hank
Relocated
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Sources we checked
- zahavrestaurant.com https://www.zahavrestaurant.com/
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Record btiea-0569 · checked by Cal Marchetti.