I had thought this place looked sketchy on previous visits to the Osito shopping area. However, I…read moretook my father here, against my instincts, because it is close to my house, and the reviews were overwhelmingly positive. Unfortunately, I would have been better served to follow my instincts. The cute waitress and attentive staff saved this place from a single star review. I take no joy in giving bad reviews, but feel like there should be a review in English that reflects reality for people who may have had Japanese food outside of the Valencia region. I've had Japanese food all over the world, including in Japan, and can say that this was among the most disappointing Japanese dining experiences I've had. Everything was bland or worse. The sushi was a huge ball of heavy sticky rice with an artificial feeling flavor (msg gel as binder possibly) with a pitifully thin slice of mediocre fish on top. The wasabi was clearly the tube-squeezed variety. The seaweed for the handroll was chewy, tough, and tasteless. Even the ginger was bland. The Thai style soup was basically miso with coconut milk dumped in it. The hot sake was very low quality and heated in a microwave. The small bites of teriyaki were mediocre, especially the overcooked salmon. I will say the tempura was delicate (though tasteless), the Sapporo good and cold, and the prices reasonable. Bummer.

Saw a few good reviews and we decided to check this place out...A FANTASTIC DECISION! My favorite…read morerestaurant in Valencia, the food was delicious!! We were put on a waitlist but our host directed us to a bar next door so we could enjoy the wait. Our waiter, Alvaro, was a joy! Because of our not-too perfect Spanish, he spoke in perfect English and was very patient with us! Truly a great, great dining experience!!

I came here on the recommendation of my Airbnb host. I did read the reviews on TripAdvisor several…read morewhich say it is very authentic Japanese Cuisine. Having just been in Japan a month ago, I was excited to try it. I came here later in the evening cramps around 10 p.m. you'd only had to wait a few minutes to get a table outside. The wait staff for great. They made a few recommendations. Where to start? Well it seems reasonable to start the miso soup which I found to be quite good. This had a fairly authentic taste to it. Moving on, I tried tuna sushi roll as a salmon roll. The fish just did not seem all that great. Certainly edible, but just a average quality. I was a little disappointed. Is there it was a chocolate cake. This was warmed and served with ice cream. This was a very nice dish. A good finishing move.

Not to be missed!! Everything was melt in your mouth delicious. If you are a sushi lover or just a…read morefoodie in general, you have to visit. We opted to skip the tasting menu (€35 per person) and ordered a handful of plates plus dessert. Every single thing that came out was fresh, beautiful, creative, and damn good. We had 2 cocktails each and a ton of food and the bill was €109. Expensive for Valencia, but totally worth the splurge. Everyone says it takes two months to get a table, but just call and ask for their next available. I called on a Friday night and they gave us a table for the following Wednesday. Service was amazing and never rushed...we were there for a long time and never felt like we were imposing.

Delicious and reasonably priced. Enjoyed all the dishes very much. Added a few others that were…read morenot on the omakase menu as wrll

It's not that this place is dirty, on the contrary. It's not that the menu is terrible, actually…read moreit's pretty good. And, the food isn't awful, actually it's satisfactory for all you can eat style sushi. So, why on earth would this place garner 2 Stars? Easy, as a solo traveler I have found my money is the same color as everyone else's. So when service is denied, or altered, my response is a heartfelt sigh! Here at Fuji, I really should have moved on when I came I and sat down. The staff got in a curfluffle that a solo eater sat in a table for two. On of the staff members directed me upstairs for solo eaters. There is was all alone, eating by myself. Shown a ringer to get staffs attention. Talk about feeling like a pariah. How can a restaurant effect my self esteem......sadly it just did. And, even worse the food is not bad, a little heavy on the rice, but places like this don't want you to eat to much. This won't happen again!!!!

HOURS: The evening hours are posted as opening at 7:30pm, but as someone else commented, they are…read morenot open until 8:30pm (or whenever they're ready to let customers in. If you're wondering what that means, we showed up just after 8pm, and were told they wouldn't be ready until after they--the employees--were finished eating). CUSTOMER SERVICE: Because my party and I were the first to arrive after opening, we received prompt service. They got us drinks, gave us warm, wet towels to clean up, and soon came over to take our order. However, as more people arrived (and it was quite busy for a Thursday) we were somewhat forgotten. FOOD: The food is delicious! I've eaten at a lot of Japanese restaurants, and enjoyed the food very much. The sashimi (raw fish) was the best of all we tried. The miso soup was hot (temperature), but salty. The rice in the sushi was a little too hard. A lot of the dishes were prepared in the same soy sauce-, garlic-type of sauce, but delicious nonetheless.

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Zen is quite a sad excuse for a restaurant. While the quality of the food is acceptable, the…read moreprices are way too high and the service is nothing short of abysmal :-( Our waiter brought all of our food as rapidly as possible, paying zero attention to either the order we had requested or whether we had finished the previously delivered course. To add insult to injury, in his haste the knocked over the bottle of wine we ordered, spilling most of it on the floor. He neither apologized nor offered to bring us another bottle; he simply scurried away... There are far too many better restaurants in Valencia for me to even consider returning to this place. I suggest that anyone reading this avoid Zen at all costs.

I would actually give 2.5 stars for this restaurant. The reasons are that the food was okay, the…read moreservice was very slow and it was too pricy for the quality of food they served. Even so, I'd give 3.5 stars for the Pecking duck and the interior. Zen is a Western style Chinese/Japanese restaurant. The place is situated near Nuevo Centro surrounding by hotels and business offices. So many customers are business and international people. It is a bit far from the city center of Valencia, but it's not so difficult to access by either metro or bus. The interior of this place is very well done. It looks like an upscale restaurant. The waiters and waitresses seem very formal. There is a waiting space for customers that looks really nice. There are pictures of famous people who ate at this place. The atmosphere is nice and bright. The food we (2 people) ordered were 2 dishes of Dim Sum and Pecking duck. One was still frozen. So we asked them to change it to a proper hot one. We were a bit shocked because it seemed like they serve us frozen food. We didn't expect that this kind of restaurant and with this high price would be from frozen food. The other dish was not bad though. We did like it. The Pecking duck we ordered were for two people. At this place you have to order at least for two people for the Pecking duck. It came also with clear duck soup (without meat) and we could choose what to do with the duck meat: either stir fry with vegetables or with orange. For this dish we waited for a long time probably around half and hour. There was only one person who sliced the duck and he did it for each table one by one right at the dining table. It looked interesting to see how he did it. But I'd actually prefer to have it sliced from the kitchen if I had to wait for that long. The duck skin was really good and crispy. The sauce was okay but I didn't like the rice cake that came in the set. It's too dry. For the duck meat dish, we chose the one with vegetables. This one was yummy. The service was friendly but very slow. The price was too expensive for this kind of quality of food.

Love this place. They have all kinds of sushi, always fresh and super nice staff. Recommend this to…read moreeveryone visiting Valencia.

The vegan options here are plentiful, i had the teriyaki and yakisoba and it was good, maybe too…read moremuch of like a very sweet soup but still tasty. the noodles were okay, the fried rice was better. My friend said the vegan soup was amazing so will try that next time!

Service was excellent. Great server. Maansi. All dishes…read morewere very good. Great vegetarian options. Vegetarian soup was great. Pad thai was great. So was Laksa, although not the original taste.