You’ll want to fill up on those, but that’s just the opening gambit. Running the kitchen at Laser Wolf is Andrew Henshaw, coming from Zahav. (According to Fiddler on the Roof documentary Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles, the show has been performed somewhere around the world every day for half a century.) In charge of the charcoal grill in the open kitchen is Andrew Henshaw, formerly chef de cuisine at Zahav and now executive chef at Laser Wolf.Ī meal at the restaurant starts with freshly made pita, that hummus Zahav (and Solomonov and Cook’s Dizengoff) is famous for, and small shiny bowls filled with salatim: sweet potato muhammara, eggplant and pepper relish, braised fennel with orange, shaved Brussels sprouts with hazelnuts and spicy amba, Israeli pickles and Castelvetrano olives, pumpkin chershi, eggplant baba ghanoush, kale baba ghanoush, dill and lentil tabbouleh, white beans with peppers and tomato, shipka peppers with pickled longhots, and shaved cucumbers with harissa. Laser Wolf is a skewer house, or shipudiya in Hebrew, named after Lazar Wolf, the butcher in iconic Jewish musical Fiddler on the Roof. Reservations are now being taken on Laser Wolf’s website. The grill-focused spot from James Beard Award winners Mike Solomonov and Steve Cook opens Thursday, February 6. Laser Wolf, the sequel to Philadelphia’s game-changing Israeli restaurant Zahav, is ready to start serving lamb skewers, kale baba ghanoush, creamy hummus, and fresh-from-the-oven pita in Kensington, which can now officially call itself Philly’s next restaurant destination.

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