Zen

I had a delicious take out order from Zen that included a, General Tso chicken, lo mein with a side of white rice and I can honestly it was nothing short of amazing! I’ve eaten Chinese from so many different places and this place just has a genuine natural tasting flavor not like most Chinese restaurants that serve frozen chicken dipped in a fryer with simple flavored fried rice. As for Kate’s review; the so called underage hostess actually serviced me in a very kind manner including helping me with my decision on what to eat. The price is high but I always am satisfied when I get to eat there.

Good was terrific.
We ordered 2 apps, the ginger salad, the won soup and fresh sushi. The sushi was delicious and fresh.
Service was great. Particularly Curt who brought our food out. Great service!

We had an amazing Zen experience. Luis, our awesome host & server, made sure every detail was taken care of and provided excellent recommendations throughout the evening. Although Zen is worth a visit for the customer service alone, the food was delicious as well. The Spare Ribs, Sautéed Shrimp with Black Pepper sauce, the lightly fried Salt and Pepper Chicken, and Stir-​Fried Beef with Ginger were certainly the highlights (recommended by Luis!), however I wasn’t a huge fan of the stir-​fried Lobster. The tasty fried rice was flavorful and light, but the Szechwan Green Beans stole the show. We highly recommend ordering the Zen experience – you get to try so many favorites as opposed to limiting yourself to one dish. Luis encouraged a variety of flavors and multiple orders. We cannot wait to visit Zen again… Five Stars!

I’m truly flabbergasted that zen has less stars than the awful «Tokyo dining» I experienced at Disney world.
Fish was fresh and prepared well. Rice to fish ratio was perfect. The two rolls I tried were fantastic!
The atmosphere was great and very relaxing.

We have dined at Zen numerous times. The food is always delicious and the wait staff are excellent. I highly recommend Zen.

Ambiance is good. Clean nice looking place.
They offer sushi and Chinese.
Service is terrible and slow, which is actually authentic Chinese restaurant service with exception to it being slow.
Hot and soup is bland. Corn chicken cream soup is like a egg drop soup with sweet corn and itty bitty bites of chicken.
Jasmine hot tea is good
Chinese spare ribs were decent a bit on the salty side meat fell off the bone which was good and it’s saucy.
Calamari seem basic didn’t have a crunch didn’t taste too much flavor or the salt and pepper taste. It was like calamari in normal sweet and sour shrimp batter you get from the local Chinese takeout place not what I’m use to.
I ordered the general chicken to be safe and it was your typically general chicken comparable to Panda Express or the mall. Didn’t disappoint but the price.
Wife ordered the lobster and ginger scallion which actually came out pretty good.
Overall the price is the downfall but your paying for convenience. You can get some authentic Chinese food but your gonna take a 30 minute hike from the resort. Your paying for the convenience of the resort and stayin local on the resort. I’m Asian so I maybe a lil more harsh then an American review lol
Enjoy

Worst Chinese Food I have ever had. The Zen menu for $ 61 dollars is a total waste of money.

Over priced and pretentious. Not surprised since it’s in a resort but it doesn’t make me feel any better about overpaying for pretty average food.

Born and raised in NYC I have been lucky to eat at the best known and hidden gems and this place is right up there with them. A strong contender of delicious sushi rolls and pieces. Sushi pieces with wasabi done right with extremely fresh fish. Ate here while on vacation and will come back before we leave.
Expensive? Yes! But that’s what you pay for quality.

We eat here often because we live a half mile down the road. The last time we went the hostess (who didn’t look more than 18) was extremely unprofessional upon our arrival. Add that to overpriced average food and you have a recipe for disaster.

Our servers were great tonight! Thanks Tom. The kitchen was on a different pace but it was not that long of a wait. If this place would get it together they could serve way more people.

For the price and the service AND the cuisine I give this restaurant one star. Everything was below substandard. Total bummer.

5-​star experience from start to finish.
Ambiance: warm, dark colors create an incredibly beautiful and modern Asian-​Fusion space. Cozy, but still upscale.
Service: one word: impressive. From the moment we walked in, we were immediately greeted by smiling faces who brought us to our table. We were then blessed to get Wally, who was honestly the most attentive, funny and efficient waiter I’ve ever had — and we eat out a lot. Wally was quick to make great recommendations of the menu, including the best sushi rolls for our tastes and the perfect sake to warm us up. He continuously checked on us and was just generally fabulous. Total asset to the team.
Food: we ordered three rolls — a tornado roll with three types of raw fish, a zen experience roll with lobster, salmon, and blue cheese aioli and a tuna roll topped with tuna (because you can never have too much tuna). All three were incredibly fresh and delicious… so much so that we savored every bite over a 20-​minute span rather than scarfing down the rolls in our typical five minute fashion. We also got a side of veggie fried rice which was of huge value. For $ 7, the «side» portion is large, yummy and filling.
Just when we thought the experience couldn’t get any better, Wally surprised us with two chocolate-​covered fortune cookies. We won’t hold Zen accountable for the actual fortunes inside since they were sooo weird but the cookies themselves were delish.
Amazing. Wish we lived closer and this could be our regular sushi spot.

Ate at Zen during my stay at the Omni — I only had items from the sushi menu. I started with edamame and miso soup — both were just average, nothing spectacular. The edamame weren’t the best quality and the miso soup was somewhat bland.
I had 2 pieces of scallop nigiri — they tasted good, but I thought they were a little on the small side with way too much rice. I also had the spicy tuna, Hawaiian and the Zen roll. I liked all 3 rolls — they were just all overpriced. Spicy tuna roll was $ 10, zen roll was $ 15 and Hawaiian was $ 13
Service was outstanding — very attentive and friendly waitress. Restaurant was clean and food arrived fast. They also accommodated babies/​kids.
This sushi dinner for 1 person was $ 84 with tax and tip! No alcohol — just water to drink.

Service and food were great. Started off meal with Serenity drink! Yummy, but bit pricey, tempura sweet orators and ginger salad were very good. Shrimp with black pepper sauce mediocre. Sushi was good. Would go back

Zen would get four stars easily if not for the astronomical prices of every menu selection. Yes, the entrees tasted fine, but if you placed my tofu and veggie dish in front of my face right next to the same item ordered from a Chinese take-​out restaurant, I could not tell them apart. The reason Zen can get away with such sky-​high prices is that it is one of the few overpriced restaurants inside the isolated Omni resort in Orlando. Basically, if you want to eat during their stay, guests can either pay through the nose inside the resort’s borders or walk almost a mile to Subway in a dodgy shopping center.
I’ll begin this portion of the review with the positives. Zen’s atmosphere is romantic with dim lighting and gorgeous Asian-​inspired décor. Even the chop sticks were fancy and came with a little chopstick-​rest for when they weren’t in use. The waitress was friendly, and so was the girl who bussed our table. The cocktail I ordered, called The Buddha or something with «Buddha» in the title, featured a sensational combination of complimentary flavors including lychee fruit, and was not overly sweet as many mixed drinks tend to be at restaurants. Also, the California roll tasted fresh and the portion was almost reasonable for the price. The fortune cookies presented after our meal were dipped in chocolate and delicious.
Now the bad. As we discovered the second day of our stay at Omni, slow service was the norm (maybe they just really want their guests to relax?), but we did not realize this fact while dining at Zen. Heck, the place IS called Zen, which I guess could be viewed as a foreshadow for their lack of attentiveness. Personally, I do not like waiting ten minutes plus for a cocktail and another 20 plus minutes for my dinner. But maybe that is just a symptom of belonging to the Millennial generation. As I mentioned at the start of this review, the entrees tasted just like Chinese delivery meals but were about 3 times more expensive. I ordered the tofu with mixed veggies and asked for brown rice for which they charged an additional dollar. Seriously? I have to pay more for brown rice, the less-​processed food in its natural state that probably costs the equivalent to its less-​healthy counterpart?
Those are my list of grievances off the top of my head. Consider yourself warned– the food is okay, but you will probably drain a good portion of your bank account at Zen.

Pretty good. Really enjoyed the food with a great wine list carrying some very good value wines. Convient if your staying there. Great service and the Sinagpore Mei Fun was fantastic

I would probably give Zen 2.5 if I could. It’s definitely «ok» and will appeal to those who want something vaguely ethnic but are intimidated by anything more complex than the Empress Plate at Wongs Wok.
They have a regular menu which is mostly Chinese classics like Kung Pao Chicken and Lo Mein Noodles (plain = $ 18!!! Are you shitting me?). There are a very few creative options like Asian Grouper but for the most part it’s the same dishes you can get at home from #1 Chinese Takeout or whatever. Sure, the presentation is nicer but can you really get upscale on Sweet and Sour Chicken?
There is also a rather limited sushi menu with maybe 10 – 15 rolls and some sashimi. Though I would have liked more choice I would rather a place focus on doing a few things right. I had a shrimp tempura roll which was nicely crunchy and definitely tasty, and a smoked salmon roll that also was pretty good. Both were «good» but a $ 12+ for one roll, I expect a little more.
The dining room is nicely decorated with hints of Asian flair, but not too much. Our server was good too — very attentive. My main gripe with Zen is the price. Yes, I get that this is a resort and I’m paying a premium because the only restaurants nearby are Cracker Barrel and Wendy’s. Still — $ 18 for plain Lo Mein noodles? You must be out of your mind.

I’m slightly embarrassed to admit how many times I ate at Zen during my 9-​day stay at the Omni ChampionsGate for a conference, so let me just say that I ate there more nights than I didn’t.
The ambiance here is great, the tables are comfortable (although they keep the restaurant quite chilly) and the staff is very attentive.
Each time we ate here, we came in pretty famished and jumped right into the starters — the dumplings are great, the soups were well received by my dining companions, the short ribs were out of this world and the ginger-​honey salad is so delightful (I had it each time I ate here).
We didn’t have a bad main the entire visit but the highlights were the stir-​fried beef with ginger and onion (I know saying melt-​in-​your-​mouth is overrated, but it really did melt in your mouth!), the sweet and sour ginger shrimp (the shrimp were huge), the szechwan duck and the cashew salmon. We also enjoyed the sea bass but found it surprisingly rich for fish. Other people I dined with loved the basil chicken (sorry, basil just isn’t my thing) and the kung-​pao chicken (I also pass on the spicy food).
I never had sushi here but those I ate with who did said it was normal but they would have rather opted for the warm dishes.
Overall, great experiences here and a solid dining choice.

We had dinner at Zen while we stayed at Omni over the past weekend. this is a casual feeling restaurant because it is in a resort. We dressed up for dinner but there certainly doesn’t seem to be a need to do so.
We began by ordering the house specialty roll which I thought was good. Then we had the dumplings with peanut sauce. These were just ok. They were not bad they just didn’t taste like anything amazing. When they put the dumplings on the plate they left them a bit wet and then added the peanut sauce so when you went to pick one up the sauce was a bit diluted by the water. Next we split a beef dish and it was more than enough food for the two of us. This was my favorite dish of the evening.
We finished up by having a piece of carrot cake and I am happy we split it because it was huge. I refrained from ordering coffee because it was $ 10 a cup and while it would have been nice it just wasn’t worth $ 10.
Overall it is a nice restaurant but once again overpriced because it is in a resort. As a side note I do believe our server was one of the best we have had a in a long time.