zahav means gold

i am working in philadelphia this week. i am really tired from this last run of shows. over the last 5 weeks we have done shows in houston, texas; rogers, arkansas; kansas city, missouri; little rock, arkansas and now philly. each show lasts about 5-7 days. you do the math and you will see that that leaves about .0001% of my time with my family...not the way i like to roll if you know what i'm saying.

but i realized a while ago (and sarah helped me to remember just the other day) that i have an old friend here in philly. he is the kind of friend that you didn't spend a great amount of time with growing up but the time you did spend together was very memorable. i would consider him one of my great friends. he and his little bro used to come to florida in the summertime and stay with his aunt who just happened to be our neighbors. there was a lot of skateboarding, pools, ice cream, movies and pretty much whatever else boys do in the summer...great times!

i hadn't talked to him much for the last several years so i wasn't so sure he would want to hang out. but i called him up and he said, "i'll clear my schedule, we're going out". we grabbed a bite to eat and he showed me around a few of the restaurants he is involved in as a chef or owner.
he is a chef here in philadelphia who has worked at places like here and here and was even voted one of the city's hottest new chefs. (you can check out his ultra sexy photo here). he is a part owner of this restaurant and a brand new project, Zahav, a trendy restaurant with Israeli cuisine. It's still being built and the cities biggest paper, the philadelphia inquirer is doing a week to week blog on the building of the restaurant that you can see here.

i have to say, "good on ya, mike!". but to tell you the truth, i was just glad to see an old friend and really would think no differently of you if you had just a plain old job. just from one overworked dude to another, remember to take a day off every once in a while...