Zen Restaurant Lounge - Rijksstraatweg 51

Great service, very excellent food. Some spots are a bit drafty in the winter time.

A great selection of fantastic food & wonderful service. Zen is our number 1 choice when we go out to eat.

Ups: Food tastes and looks great. On the downside: staff is everything but Zen. Overall ok, but I won't get out of my way to eat there again.

Very nice restaurant. Definitey a recommendation! Strongly recommend their fish, it's very fresh and very well prepared. Service was excellent, very professional and kind.

Excellent service, very friendly owner. Delicious asian dishes. Very good value for many. Located at busy traffic junction, but you don't notice that inside, and there are many parking places around the corner.

the food is amazing. The sushi is so good compared to the all you can eat shabu shabu or itoshii. It is more pricy but for sure worth it. The sizzling beef is out of this world. It melts in your mouth. Staff is friendly and always making sure that your water is filled. The food does not take long to be served compared to the quality. The salmon Sashimi is also amazing, melts in your mouth. We come here at least once a month for our Zen cravings.

We were here with 2 English guests who have been in the restaurant business for 45 years and have started 4 restaurants in England with great success. So our guests had a fair amount of experience and are also members of various assessment-sites for food. Zen tries to position itself in the higher regions of Asian cuisine, so one has high expectations. There was almost no choice for high yeasting, specialty crafts beers. In fact, there was no beer list on their website or in the restaurant at all (they did have a wine list). Taking into account current developments and popularity around crafts beers, this is a missed opportunity for this restaurant. In the end, I chose something that had a small resemblance with a beer (at least not a worthless pilsner): a white beer. My partner went for a port and our English guests asked for a glass of water (plain water). To try as many appetizers as possible, we asked the chef to choose appetizers himself. This turned out to be 4 dishes, including steamed pies and Dim Sum. All 4 dishes were tasty and at good temperature. As main course we chose for Peking duck, Three in Harmony, Tempura Ebi Mix and Chicken Dish. However, we were surprised that the (baked) rice or mie had to be ordered (and paid) separately. It took quite a while before the main course came. Unfortunately, the Tempura dish, unlike the other 3 dishes, appeared to be on a cold plate. The Tempura itself was also lukewarm. Afterwards, the Tempura dish did not turn out to be the right one. We got the ZEN Tempura rock shrimps instead of the Tempura ebi mix (we had not noticed this mistake at that moment). The Three in harmony (harmonic combination of chicken, beef and prawns, cured with lightly spicy Szechuan sauce) turned out to be little harmonic. In a random wok restaurant, chicken, beef and prawns can also be cooked in a Szechuan sauce, while the price is much less than 23 euro (including rice). The Peking duck as well as the chicken dish was OK, but not very refined. The bill was painful. Instead of requested 2 glasses of water, our English guests got a bottle of water, which turned out to be 6 euros, yes indeed: unbelievable!) With the 4 drinks, the 4 small entrees, the 4 main courses and baked rice, the total bill was a 140 euros, which is clearly not in the expectation of a proper price / quality ratio. Unfortunately for us and our English guests not a reason to choose this restaurant again.

Excellent dishes, excellent service. Went there many times, never disappointed.