zen chinese restaurant

The Zen is actually housed in a converted religious meeting hall, which gives a style of missionary endeavour to the experience of eating here.

Actually, the room is a delightful contrast to the other laminate and lacquer Chinese restaurants in the city, and the generous acrage of space between the tables and a plenitude of light, is an important factor in allowing the service to be relaxed and affable.

If the architectural and design details are a happy accident, the food is a considered composition of ingredients. It runs along largely familiar lines, for sure - the black bean sauce combinations, the tofu and the shellfish, the noodles and the fried rice - but it can produce some excellent inventions, though on occasion one wishes it was a little more daring. They operate a take-away service also, though this shows only the very obvious side of the restaurant's work.