One of the most appealing things about Zen Garden is the price of the food. Occasionally some of the dishes can be a little cold, but this doesn’t detract much from their tastiness. I try to off-balance the salty dishes with the less salty ones. If you dislike salty food, this place might not be for you, as many of the dishes taste like they are high in salt. There’s always a wide selection of things to choose from, and despite me being a little fussy, I never struggle to find things I like. The dishes include things like sesame toast, crispy seaweed, Singapore noodles, stir fried vegetables, tiny spring rolls, samosas, Thai curries, chow mein, sweet and sour, and rice.

I have now eaten a few lunches at Zen Garden and each time the food selection has been slightly different. However, the staff assured me that all the food was vegetarian. I was slightly cautious when I first visited, since the buffet features a few dishes that look like meat, and the vegetarian aspect of the restaurant isn’t emphasised much. He and his colleagues had eaten there a few times before they realised that the food was exclusively vegetarian! Before that, they just thought that the meat tasted a little funny! It’s a restaurant that depends largely upon the custom of people working nearby, and hence it’s only open Monday-Friday and is closed at weekends.īen discovered this place when he was working in the area. Zen Garden is an exclusively vegetarian Chinese and Thai buffet restaurant in Leather Lane, central London.

Zen garden restaurant