Zen Gardens — Restaurant in Guelph

Terrible experience!

My spicy eggplant literally only had 3 pieces of tofu in it... This was our first meal after 2 days so we were starving, yet my partner couldn't finish his dish because it was way too salty! I tried a bite and it was overwhelming. My partner ate maybe 3 bites of his food and we told the server MUTIPLE times we didn't want to take the leftovers home, it was way too salty, something was wrong with it, and that's why he barely ate any of it. Yet she still packaged it and tried to make us take it! So uncomfortable, she kept acting like she didn't know what I was saying. She kept saying she would give a small discount, but gave me the debit terminal with the original price. After confronting her she quickly updated the cost and walked away. Still paid $50 for the worst dining experience we ever had.

All dishes (aside from the wonton soup) were lacking flavor and presentation. There's something off-putting about dining in and being served slop in plastic containers and eating burning hot soup with a plastic spoon... Very wasteful too.

To make it worse, my partner called before we came in and asked if there are gluten free options, they said "tell us what you want, we'll make it gluten free" and told us the soy nuggets were gluten free, which I had a bad feeling about. BUT as mentioned, we were starving and they told us they could accommodate gluten free. Yet when we got there, we ordered soy nuggets and they didn't bring them out because I'm assuming they contained gluten. If they wouldn't have lied to us, or at least knew what they were talking about, we wouldn't have came in and we could have avoided this whole mess.

London location is one of our favorite restaurants, this was...

We will start off with the location, well it's in a house, it's a small place with a calm atmosphere. Nice calming music. The staff was great, friendly and answered our questions. Everything was vegan which is new to me, I've never had vegan Thai food before. I was pleasantly surprised. The Pad Thai vegan style was good and piping hot to boot 🤣 we all almost burned our mouths, I laugh because all four of us made the same mistake of not blowing on our food prior to digging in, it smelled that good! Bonus to this place! The lovely friends I shared a meal with ordered extra to bring home to their other sons which Zen garden happily prepared for them and was ready when we all left. Cozy place only like 4-5 tables, very intimate.

I would totally recommend this place for dates and family gatherings. The food was delicious although different from the kind of Thai food I've enjoyed in the past. But don't be fooled by this place it's very very good.

Please check it out and enjoy the experience.

Much love to you Zen Gardens, I promise...

My husband and I visited this zen garden location after a long drive. I had been to other Zen garden locations and wasn't disappointed, so I figured this location would be no different. We were shocked by house converted into dining rooms but were able to put that aside. We ordered our food, the server promptly left and we suddenly heard a microwave going off. A few moments later she came back with my husbands lunch. His salad was literally a piece of lettuce, and a slice of tomato that clearly wasn't fresh. He was waiting for my food, to begin eating. My food took about 10 minutes longer due to the fact that his was microwaved and mine wasn't. I ordered the pineapple friends rice. The pineapples were really gross and again weren't fresh. We spent about $50 and were really upset at the price based on the quality. We will not be going back to...