Zen Japanese Restaurant

I’ve been to Zen restaurant a few times for dinner and it is always delicious, comfortable and the service is excellent. It’s just such a nice welcoming place. Today was a hot day and it was nice and cool in the aircon.

Lovely venue and amazing food. A bit noisy but overall I would definitely recommend.

Small nice restaurant, this is our first time here, food is fresh and delicious, tempura is not oily. Good customer service as well, We would like to come back here more often

Delicious fresh food. Staff are very friendly and efficient. Value for money.

We love Zen lunchs very inexpensive and the food is fantastic

Great food and service Upstairs room is really good for larger groups

We all enjoyed a splendid meal. Food and service were of a high standard. Not our first visit and we were not disappointed once again! We will certainly return and bring our friends with us. Only negative was the music was certainly a little loud for comfortable conversation over dinner.

They have a popular 'lunch menu' which has stayed the same for ~20years and that is why people keep coming back.

Excellent lunch bento set; good value and the food is amazingly fresh and service is great!

Excellent service. Excellent food. Light-filled room. A most pleasant experience.

Very nice food, fast service, possibly a little more expensive than we expected

Great service and fooo was delicious. Worth the visit and drive.

Generally dishes are very good and this cafe is a local favourite but disappointed with the seafood udon noodles which was bland although the seafood elements were plentiful

The food was high quality, staff are very friendly and the atmosphere was great

Great atmosphere and food., very nice place, ten words.done submit

Delicious food, lovely service, fresh and home cooking style restaurant

Delicious bento boxes which were very generous and great value.

Fantastic and great way to spend my birthday lunch! thank you for hosting me at the last minute :)

We really enjoyed our bento box meal. It was delicious.Thank you

Would like more face to face service and less IT at table service

Excellent food and service. Highly recommend this restaurant . Will return

Beautiful food. Service a bit slow initially, but got better.

Value for money. Food with good quality. Will come again!

Food excellent. Service between courses a bit too fast. New digitec at table ordering and paying is novel and at the same time confusing.

Food tasty & wine well priced. Had to ask for orders to come which was a lack in the service. Very enjoyable overall .

Lovely Japanese food. Friendly service, very reasonably priced. Highly recommend.

Enjoyable night with good food and service the latter perhaps effected by a high level of customers for a Tuesday night

WOW! sashimi was unbelievably good. Can't fault anything. So so happy.

Delicious food, very decent portions, and lovely staff. I really enjoyed the kaiseki bento and my sons loved the yakitori. We will be back!

Great food. Lovely atmosphere and staff were so gracious. Highly recommend.

Food and service was very good. Recommend paying a visit.

Amazing food. We thought we over ordered but it was soooo good that we ate it alllll up! 😆 The service was really great too! Very polite and patient. The food came quickly. I don't think we've had plain steamed rice that yummy before too! The chilli sashimi, charcoal grill sushi platter, sashimi platter, chicken teriyaki, wagyu, seafood Udon were what we had. Every single dish was great. Sashimi was so fresh! Our kids loved them too! The only reason why I didn't put down the best rating is because the toilets are located up a flight of stairs that are slightly steeper than usual. I won't recommend it for older people or those with little kids for this reason. Also the entrance door doesn't shut on its own and we sat near the door where the cold air kept coming in whenever people come and in out and forget to shut the door. There were quite a few food delivery people so it was pretty chilly sitting next to the door and having to get up to shut it on our own every few minutes.

We had a wonderful meal with excellent service. Thank you very much.

Delicious food with excellent service value for money and nice atmosphere

Excellent food/service and ambience . Good value Japanese in hawthorn

As always good food and service, staff were friendly and attentive 🙂

Great service, food came out quickly and all at once. Food was amazing as always.

Amazing food. The quality and consistency of the food quality is a testament to this restaurant that continues deliver excellent Japanese cuisine.

Great food, well priced and quieter upstairs. Will be going again soon

A lovely local restaurant in Hawthorn. Beautiful and well presented food. Always a treat to eat at Zen

One of the best Japanese restaurants we have been to. The food is EXCELLENT and the service outstanding and it is so close to where we live.

Love Zen. I'm definitely coming back. Compliments to the chef.

A lovely, authentically Japanese feeling restaurant with beautifully cooked food.

As always beautiful food and kind attentive staff. We brought friends tonight who haven’t been before. They loved it and said they will come back.

I have been to Zen more times than I could count with it being so close to my work. I have never had anything than other than a delicious, consistent visit. The bento boxes remain great value and generous in their content and variety of flavours. A real favourite.

Food and value brilliant. Will come back again. We all loved it.

Just a lovely meal. The Salmon teriyaki was full of flavour.The service is excellent and quick. Pleasant and attentive staff. I will certainly visit again.

Amazing food. Bento is fantastic value and so tasty. Would definitely recommend and is one of our fav’s.

Intimate seating provided for a date with my daughters. Has been a favourite restaurant of mine for many years prior to the pandemic & I visited with friends frequently. Choosing vegetarian diet there is a wonderful variety available. And the staff are very friendly & welcoming.

Food is great, service a bit slow, but will definitely be going back.