Zen & Co • Menjalara • Japanese Fusion Cafe — Restaurant in Kuala Lumpur

Got to know this Japanese style cafe on XHS. Came here to celebrate with my partner as they're having complimentary meal for member in birthday month. On top of that they're having promo for instagram and facebook, so I got another free Takoyaki and coffee latte.

It's a cafe franchise located at the busy street of Menjalara, therefore parking is limited and understandable.

The ambience of the cafe is good and bright, tables settings range from 2pax to 8pax. If you come as 2pax the table will be small, therefore suggest you to bring along your family members. And the cafe is usually crowded with queue, suggest you to reserve table if you're planning a dinner occasion.

For the food taste, the teriyaki chicken chop is good, the sweetness just on point and the chicken is well grilled, the portion is a bit small, but for the price it's reasonable. For fish and chip taste is ok, and the fries are plenty. For main meals, if you want something to make you more full, suggest you to order Don as the portion looks bigger. For sushi the tuna and salmon is fresh and not fat, therefore enhance the taste and texture. The latte looks good but the taste can be more bold.

They're also serving varieties of special cakes for those who come for gathering and chit-chatting.

Overall it's a good cafe if you're craving for japanese style cafe food, but do expect that you cannot stay long as waiting queue is usually long on weekends and parkings...

This café, with its faint nods to Japanese sensibilities, doesn’t aim to dazzle but rather to comfort. Kepong’s Sunday crowd has clearly embraced it, flocking to its assortment of “Don” rice bowls as if to a familiar ritual. The draw? Straightforward food at fair prices, a menu broad enough to please, and flavours that keep to the safe but satisfying side of things. Popularity here isn’t earned by brilliance, but by reliability.

The dish that lingered longest in memory wasn’t a rice bowl at all, but the matcha lava cake. Made fresh to order, it arrived unassuming, then revealed its secret: a molten heart that broke open into a slow, verdant ooze - creamy, balanced, and mercifully restrained in sweetness. A quiet triumph.

My salmon don, laced with mango and avocado, was a petite bowl with more personality than size - clean, refreshing, almost like a palate cleanser disguised as a meal. The teriyaki chicken bowl, on the other hand, stumbled. The meat, unforgivably dry, leaned too heavily on its glossy sauce to compensate - a misstep that betrayed the kitchen’s otherwise competent hand.

Even the coffee had its quirks. The gimmicky “coffee cube” deal - two for the price of one - was too good to pass up. The brew itself? Pleasant enough, though more pedestrian than profound. A cup to sip,...

Dear owner, if you wish to close at 9pm. Kindly change your opening hour 12-9pm. I had my family dinner here last night. It was raining heavily outside. Hence, I chose a restaurant that open longer hours so I might able to wait the rain out.

Before my son finish his dinner. There was strong detergent smell that hard to ignore. I thought I had unconsciously passed their opening hours, so i check the time with phone. It was NOT EVEN 9PM.

Soon, the staff then come over to collect payment and said they need close account. Confusingly, I ask what time this restaurant close. She said 10pm with unfriendly tone.

If your good restaurant suppose closed at 10pm, why all tables are push aside and staff cleaning floor at 9pm?

You can definitely sense strongly that all staffs wish you leave immediately. I had a newborn havent finish milk, my son haven't finish his kid meal. But we have to leave in 5 minutes under pressure.

Luckily I didn't order dessert which I initially wished to. Can't imagine if I need to finish my dessert before 9pm which the shop main entrance clearly display vividly that closing hour 10pm. Which is super misleading.

I will NEVER come back NOR go to any Zen & Co. No one deserve such terrible services. Worst dining experience that I hated myself...