Zen 320

Closed… went by last year 2014 and it was closed!!! Tried calling before and other times and no answer, nothing??? No sign and when went by, times on door said it should have been opened.

Good quality sushi at a very reasonable price. I am a fan of their party platters which are for take-​out and can indeed feed a large number of people. My guests always compliment me on the sushi I get from Zen 320. They’re really good about getting the food ready by the promised time.
The place is very close to the town hall parking lot so it’s easy to park nearby (always found a spot). We’ve eaten in several times and warm food is also quite good as is the sushi. Overall I’m a fan

This is/​was the best sushi place within the Boston area. The las vegas roll and baked salmon/​california rolls cannot be beat. Unfortunately, it seems that they have closed for business. I am not quite sure why as it really can’t be beat in terms of awesome sushi. If anyone has any knowledge of the matter, please please let me know!

The first time we laid eyes on this place, we weren’t sure if we made it to the right place. It’s a little off the beaten path and the only thing noticeable about their exterior is their little glowing neon «open» sign. This is your typical «don’t judge a book by its cover/​interior decoration» scenario.
Their sushi is the cheapest I’ve seen so far in Boston and the quality is really on par (if not better) with some of the nicer places in town. The décor and the ambiance is that of a hole-​in-​the-​wall place (which is fine because their food is delicious). Also, our poor waiter (the only waiter we’ve ever seen) literally runs around this place serving everyone.
Overall, the sushi here is very fresh and the service is quick and efficient. What more could you ask for?
Check out my blog (complete with pictures and childish humor) for the full review!

Cold night in Brookline Village. But nevertheless went to Zen320. Ordered the mama roll the 007 roll with crabmeat, avocado, cucumber, with a shrimp on top!
Everything was most excellent. Service & food was all 4 stars! Lived here 15 years it’s the first time I tried it.
Try it, I recommend it.

I was introduced to this little gem recently, and I must say, it is a place worth stopping into. The two times I have been, it has been very quiet, and nearly empty. You’re promptly seated at a nice table, served a salad with ginger dressing, and offered a menu in which you can check off a-​la-​carte rolls, or decide based on their full menu.
The price is incredibly inexpensive, and of decent quality. You can see the slabs of fish as you walk past the main counter, and they have a relatively «fresh» taste to them. I’m not sure if it’s fresh or frozen, but it doesn’t have that off flavor that comes with previously frozen fish. My favorites are the eel and avocado, and karate rolls.
For under $ 25-​$ 30, you can leaving having a sushi-​induced coma, due to all of the rolls and items you can purchase from the a-​la-​carte menu. Definitely a fan, and definitely making this a go-​to stop at least once a month.

Worst sushi on the planet. I can’t fathom how they are in business. They forgot my wife food and brought out frozen seaweed salad. When telling the waiter he offered to bring it back into the kitchen till it was thawed. It take almost a hour for any sushi to come to the table. The men’s bathroom was broken and had a milk crate in the urinal. The toilet had duck tape on the lid holding it together. If you are looking for frozen sushi, bad service, and a broken restroom Zen 320 has it all!

I was so excited to try this place, but unfortunately it is not going on the «order from again,» list.
After being foodler addicts, we ventured back over to Grub Hub, and decided to try somewhere new. We were super hungry, and I ALMOST just said, «let’s order from somewhere that we KNOW has good food and fast service.» But alas, I never take my own advice.
We were intrigued by a lot of the rolls at Zen 320, and the prices! We ordered a ton of food and thought we were getting quite a lot for our money, but– one of the apps we ordered they were out of, and we didn’t even want to finish any of the rolls we got… so we really didn’t.
The boy had ordered one roll and 2 appetizers, so we thought he’d have plenty of food, but he barely had a meal with the main app being «out, and the measly calamari serving. They did refund our money however for the missing app…
The sushi was the biggest disappointment. We ordered the Zen 320 roll, the Sakura roll, and the titanic roll. When we got them, the rolls were so mushy, we couldn’t even pick them up out of the tray to eat. We tried with chopsticks, AND a fork, and they just sort of fell apart. They also didn’t even look appetizing (and I’m pretty sure one of the rolls was missing a component that was supposed to be on it). We couldn’t tell what anything was, and it was all just sort of slopped together.
I didn’t even want to Instagram it. Sad sushi. The sushi at the cafeteria where I work is far superior– so that says something.
The other items we ordered were the calamari appetizer which came with a pitiful five or so small pieces and nothing else, the tempura udon (which was the highlight of the meal and I’m so glad I ordered!) and the kimchi pancakes.
The kimchi pancakes were another odd item. I don’t know if they were undercooked or what, but they were not really pancakes at all in the sense that you couldn’t really pick them up individual. It was more like a big pile of spicy mush with some huge chunks of onion here and there. We basically had to break off pieces and just eat them. It was tasty but definitely not the best I’ve had.
Sorry Zen 320, your menu is a nice idea, but for decent priced, delicious sushi, we’ll be sticking with our regulars!

Totally reliable, unoffensive sushi. Nothing new or exciting, nothing bad or unappealing. If you’re looking to feed a few people (or you’re really hungry after a marathon training run) sushi on a budget, you can’t beat Zen 320. I prefer takeout since I’m usually pretty hungry when I go there, but the dining room is totally adequate.
I wish I could say more about it, but that’s about it, and it’s not a bad thing. I don’t recommend Zen 320 for your first sushi experience because it will be very underwhelming, nor would it be appropriate for a «I want super awesome sushi» dinner. But if you’re hungry and sushi is what you’re craving… this is your place.

Mediocre Japanese-​Korean on the cheap?
Tucked away on Washington St. in Brookline, Zen 320 probably has an equal number of critics as fans. It’s best known as a place for inexpensive sushi. The ambience is lacking with scattered stereotypical decorations. One particularly striking turn-​off was the smell. Either their carpeting is extremely musty or the bathrooms have poor drainage. Unfortunately, it did not make for an appetizing experience.
The waiter was clearly overworked and seemed to be serving the whole restaurant. He was nice enough but looked exhausted.
The food was actually more disappointing than the ambience (which let me tell you, is quite an accomplishment). The shrimp shumai were standard and not impressive. I ordered the bibimbap (hot stone bowl Korean rice dish). It is supposed to be loaded with beef bulgogi (marinated beef). I had three small pieces in mine. Go anywhere else to see how bibimbap is supposed to be made. The price was not much cheaper than other places but was definitely a lot skimpier.
I was so hungry after my paltry bibimbap that I also ordered some sushi. I was less expansive than other local sushi restaurants. However, it was also fairly forgettable. Don’t expect to be wowed by creative rolls or amazing presentation. It’s pretty standard here. One positive, the fish seemed pretty fresh.
Overall, I’d recommend you spend the $ 5 – 10 extra dollars to eat better Sushi or Korean food elsewhere.

I’m a big fan of Zen 320. It has become one of my regular dining destinations, both for the value and the quality of the food.
Things I like:
— Really good, fresh sushi. Quality-​wise, I would place it on par with Gari Sushi (in Coolidge Corner and Needham), which is much pricier.
— Very low prices. Most of the rolls are around $ 5, and the specialty rolls (including spider roll, caterpillar roll, shrimp tempura, and rainbow roll) are closer to $ 8. At more upscale places, the same specialty rolls can run you $ 12 or $ 14. The menu used to be «50% off every day,» which was silly, but they recently scrapped that and now they have a new menu that just has cheap prices, no math required!
— The spicy rolls (spicy tuna, spicy salmon, spicy crab) are actually spicy. At other places, they just douse the sushi with «spicy» mayo that actually doesn’t bring the heat. These rolls really have a kick.
— Free garden salad with dinner. They just bring it over when you order your sushi. Plus, their dressing is delicious! It’s more vinegary than the more commonly found ginger dressings.
— Hot sake. I know you can find it at most sushi places, but I still wanted to point out that it’s here and it’s great!
Things I don’t like:
— The décor is quite worn. The booths have shabby pillows on them, and they could use a new rug.
— The overly dim lighting makes the atmosphere a bit sketchy.
— I wouldn’t exactly say I dislike this, but the menus are decorated with glittery puffy paint. It’s a bit strange.
All in all, Zen 320 has reliably good and cheap sushi, and I’m going to keep coming back!

I’ve eaten here many times, both for dine in and delivery. The sushi itself is pretty good. Not the best I’ve ever had, but as others have mentioned the prices are fantastic. When I’m looking for quantity, about $ 20 will give me more than enough food.
Aside from the sushi, I’ve also eaten the shu-​mai and gyoza, each of which were pretty tasty.
For dine-​in, they have lunch specials around $ 10 both sushi and hot food, so it’s still pretty cheap to get a special (with soup!) and an extra roll. The restaurant itself is fairly dark and quiet. It usually isn’t too crowded when I’m in there, though I usually eat late lunch (between 2 – 3). The same waiter is always there, and he’s polite and prompt.
They began delivery a few weeks ago through GrubHub, and the food always arrives quickly, and unlike other restaurants, will actually bring my food to the door, as opposed to waiting in the lobby of my building.
In conclusion: excellent service, decent sushi, fantastic prices.

This place. Ohhhh, this place! Service is slow (budget yourself 3 hours whenever you go, including travel time, because unless you live in Brookline Village, it’s a little bit out of the way), the sushi is so-​so (not the best sushi by any stretch of the imagination, but also, and most importantly, nowhere NEAR the worst– it’s pretty good!), but it’s BYOB! I don’t get the feeling that they like people knowing this, but we bring our own wine all the time.
I take everyone I know here. I’ve even taken my mother. She loved it. I love it. Check it out. It is NEVER crowded. I’m pretty sure 85% of their business is take out.

Interesting place…
I was stumbling through Brookline Village with my GF one day and was really hungry, looked at the menu here and went in.
One of the first things that will grab your attention is the 50% off sushi gimmick. Why a gimmick? It’s a gimmick because it’s 50% off all day every day, all day long… that’s weird. Why not at least limit it to certain days or hours? Very Strange!
The setup is here is decent, although quite dark. The darkness is perhaps to hide the very, very stained upholstery, which I noticed before I got my food and was a bit turned off.
I ordered a dinner combo, because it was a weird time of day and it was just past lunch-​combo o’clock. It was about $ 10, huge, and pretty damn good! I would say food was 4 – 5 stars. The Sushi seemed fresh, and I received a huge portion I forget what my GF got, but she said it was good too. Sadly the food here is overshadowed by other weirdness.
Other weird stuff… lots and lots of fruit flies, which again is a turnoff in a restaurant where one will be consuming raw food. It seemed that there was only two people working, the sushi chef, and our server… who I believe was also on fry and food prep duty. I could be wrong about this, but it does raise some additional questions about cleanliness when your server is handling your food.
The bathrooms… wow… the bathrooms were in serious disrepair, with varying half-​assed repairs done to them in varying stages. The toilets were heavily stained from hard water and needed a scrubbing, and were seriously brown from lack of cleaning… I can’t trust a restaurant that cant take 20 min. a week to keep their bathroom respectable.
Overall my food was pretty darn good, and cheap, but there is something quite off about this place. If they cant keep the areas that customers see clean, they can’t be trusted to keep the areas that the customers don’t see clean. Plenty of other inexpensive Sushi restaurants in Boston, that don’t make me wonder if I will get sick if i eat there. Oh and FYI I lived in Korea for a year, and have eaten raw fish in a dirt floor restaurant and felt less sketched out. If I lived close by I would consider returning, but certainly not worth making a trek from well… anywhere to go here.

Epic piles of sushi! $ 20-​$ 30 gets you a giant platter that will leave you (and anyone you’re with) totally stuffed. I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad piece of sushi there in 3 – 4 visits… crispy tuna… california rolls… fiery wasabi… I’ve gotta stop before I start drooling.
I’ve also had some of their other dishes. They do a nice, crispy tempura and a really good beef stir fry. Ya might as well hop on the sake wagon while you’re there as well.
I’ve gotta take 1 star off because the service seems sort of nonchalant, which takes away from the charm and vibe and leaves you feeling a bit like you’re stopping at a sushi trough.
But is a sushi trough really a bad place to be?

I came here yesterday for lunch and only ordered roll #3 and a mexican roll. Somehow it was mixed up and i got an extra crispy salmon and a soft shell crab roll at their regular half-​price price and it was more than the cost of the lunch special and didn’t even come with soup. needless to say, i was a bit disappointed and felt bad that it would go to waste so i just told the waiter to ring it up at the lunch special price and I’ll take it since it would go to waste, etc.

Sushi here is fine for the price… the décor? Not quite…
Duct tape covering rips in a dirty white leather couch? CHECK
Stains on the flesh toned seatcovers in booths? CHECK
Gawdy plastic tumblers from the clearance rack at Target? CHECK
However, the sushi is pretty good! ½ price at lunch made me a little wary of trying it out. Lunch combos have a lot of food for under 8 bucks.
The waiters are a bit challenged in terms of customer service, but it’s a good spot for the lunch crowd.

This place goes easy on your wallet! Half-​off sushis! Its so fresh and delicious and huge. Most sushi restaurants around this area are expensive. I recommend coming here to try cheap priced sushi and its so worth it too!
Bring quarters with you if your going by car!

Anytime I get together with my friends, we suggest Zen 320. It is hard to get sushi from anywhere else when the sushi here is SO cheap and SO DELICIOUS!
Our favorite roll is the Las Vegas roll. a must. Just remember that everything on the sushi list is half the listed price and yummy. Sushi comes with a small salad and some lunch and dinner boxes come with miso soup.
The service is a very slow but its so worth the wait. Check out the hilarious décor too. I’ve never had to wait for a table there. I wouldn’t go on a first date here, but I wouldn’t order sushi anywhere else.

Ahh Zen 320… gotta love it. I’ve been going to this place for years since I’ve come to live in Brookline. I always thought Zen 320 was a front for the mob. Why you say? Because, on any given weeknight the place is empty, the sushi chef is the same guy, and he’s always there! I know he’s the owner but, hey, even the owner deserves a night off. Right? Plus it’s usually the same six staff employees AND… there’s a back portion of the restaurant that’s kinda roped off that no one goes in to. I’m telling ya, I’ve seen people go in, but I’ve never seen them come out…
But the food, that’s the important part! For the price, the sushi is pretty darn good. I mean, for four bucks a roll, what do you expect? Expect to wait a good twenty-​five minutes to forty-​five minutes for the food (depending on the crowd, depending on the night). Also, something that kinda irritates me about Asian restaurants in general, no free refills on the soft drinks. Meh oh well.
If you enjoy inexpensive decent sushi, Zen 320 is your thing.