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.

Probably the most awful sushi ive ever had. There was hairy mold on the sushi. The avocado was so…read morehard you couldn't cut through it with a knife. We ordered food and half of it came, and when we didn't like the sushi we asked about the rest of the food we ordered and they said it would be another hour until it would be out. I got violently sick after eating it as well. The dumplings are good though!

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.

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.

One of my favorite Asian restaurants in Valencia city. Great service, varied choices of dishes in…read morethe menu. The ambiance is rich and classy and they have plenty of space in the dining. The steakhouse portion gets busy and needs reservations.

We stumbled across this restaurant while checking out the options for tapas one evening. We had…read morebeen in Spain about 5 days by that time and were craving Asian food (one of our vices, so to speak). The interior of the restaurant is warm, inviting and upscale. It was quite busy when we arrrved, with several large tables. We we seated away from all of the noise in a cozy booth. The food was very good. We had tom yum soup (very spicy), yummy dumplings, fresh sushi and very tasty thai chicken. I would highly recommend it for a change from the traditional Spanish cuisine.

Nikkei is an awesome Japanese/Peruvian fusion place just outside the city center. We came here on…read morethe recommendation of a nearby bar owner, and it was one of our best meals in Valencia. The ceviche bowls were incredible, as was my beef tataki. The octopus was amazing and perfectly cooked. Service was great, and the server was extremely patient with our many stupid questions. I would definitely go back.

Japanese Spanish fusion sushi bar, wonderful combinations - ginger with tuna, roasted salmon, eel…read morewith roasted onions. Uniquely delicious, super close to the Mercat Central

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This restaurant was a great find while walking around Valencia on a weeknight. One of the few…read moreplaces where you probably will not need to make a reservation, hah! All the times that I ate here over a few months, there were openings for dinner. Delicious food, the ramen was great. Appetizers were good, and the green tea torta was memorable. There are branches of this restaurant in Japan as well. I will be back...

This place surprised me. I know there are lots of trendy restaurants in this area, but I was…read moresuper-impressed with the food, the decor, and the willingness of the waiter to endure my jet-lagged Spanish. This place is perfect for meeting up with friends (here's looking at you Jose S and Nantisara!) for a bite to eat. Now, to be honest, it was my first full day back in Spain and the rest of my brain was trying desperately to catch up to the clock, and we arrived at the restaurant as they opened for lunch (around 1:00, which is ridiculously early for Spanish lunchtime). The menu is varied and there are lots of little options for personalizing your meal. What arrived at the table was a real treat - appetizers and main courses were delicious, well-seasoned, and thoughtfully presented. I definitely want to go back the next time I am in Valencia.

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

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.