Worth it for / Skip if
Worth it for — knowing the bill before you go — the venue publishes S$450 to S$620 a head across the items on record; a table you can lock in — seats are booked through restaurantzen.com; arriving by train — the record puts it 3 minutes on foot from Outram Park MRT.
Skip if — S$450 a head before drinks is above what the meal is worth to you today; you are deciding at the door: the record carries a booking route, not a walk-in policy.
Every clause above is drawn from a named field in this venue's record — a published price, a booking route, the verified hours — and nothing else.
What it costs
The venue publishes S$450 to S$620 across the items on record. No service-charge or GST note is recorded against every priced row, so no all-in figure is estimated here.
Two people, one item each from the list above, no drinks: budget S$900–S$1240. That is arithmetic on the published prices, not a quoted package.
Confirm the current price with the venue when you book. Forkin publishes prices only where a dated public source carries them, and flags it when sources disagree. Source: Venue official menu page. Last checked 1 September 2026.
How to get a seat
- Book through restaurantzen.com .
- Hours — Open for lunch and dinner, Tuesday to Saturday (per official site; exact daily times not published)
last seating times, deposit and cancellation terms and party-size limits are not on record for this venue — ask when you book.
What to expect
- Seats — 23
- Menu — A selection of 2 items from the venue’s own published menu is on record, with prices.
- Getting there — Outram Park MRT, 3 minutes on foot · 41 Bukit Pasoh Road, Singapore 089855.
- Dietary requests, dress code and group size — not on record. Ask when you book.
Source: Restaurant Zén. Last checked 8 September 2026.
The longer version
Zén holds three MICHELIN Stars in the Guide's 2026 Singapore selection, whose inspectors single out the onion course as a tour de force. Major Foodie, publishing his own itemised bill, found the multi-floor tasting menu fair value for the quality of Japanese produce used. Travels for Stars scored it 18 out of 20 while describing the experience as safer than Frantzen in Stockholm. Iternitty, reviewing a December 2024 dinner, admired an extreme level of precision but reported lapses in service, concluded that Zen will always be the little brother, and answered no to returning and to value for money. That split is why the venue carries WORTH A LOOK rather than a top-band stamp.
What the published coverage says, assessed by the Forkin editorial desk from 4 linked sources — not a personal dining review. Every source behind it is under How this was assessed.
Signature dishes
Dishes named in official sources for this venue:
Menus change. Confirm current dishes and prices directly with the venue.
Opening hours
Day-by-day hours are not verified for this venue. The venue's own summary reads: Open for lunch and dinner, Tuesday to Saturday (per official site; exact daily times not published). Hours are published here only once a dated source has been read for the whole week, so a partial week is never shown as a full one.
If not this, then
Assessed Nordic-Japanese listings from Forkin's own directory — cuisine first, never geography alone.
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- Also on record — Café Idaki · WORTH A LOOK · Holland Village
Inside Zén
No rights-cleared photograph of this venue is on record. Forkin publishes a photograph only where provenance and permitted use are recorded against the file, and never republishes an image from a review, a social post or a search result.
Official Instagram
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Common questions
How much is Zén?
The items on record run S$450 to S$620, as published by the venue. Drinks are extra unless the venue states otherwise. Prices last checked 1 September 2026.
How do I book Zén?
Bookings are taken through restaurantzen.com at https://www.restaurantzen.com/reservation/. Last seating times, deposit and cancellation terms and party-size limits are not on record — confirm them when you book.
At a glance
Tanjong Pagar41 Bukit Pasoh Road, Singapore 089855
Outram Park MRT, 3 min
Open for lunch and dinner, Tuesday to Saturday (per official site; exact daily times not published)
Established 2018
$ $$$$
Last verified 10 August 2026
How this was assessed
This listing was assessed by the Forkin editorial desk from 4 linked substantive sources, at confidence medium, last assessed 14 August 2026. The full scoring breakdown and every source is below.
Sourced from frantzengroup.com, citynomads.com and MICHELIN Guide Singapore 2026. Plus 1 official page. 4 sources in total.
Full evidence log and scoring breakdown
Why Zén scores 7.7
WORTH A LOOK · band 7.0–8.4 (base 7.5)
The Forkin Evidence Score is a transparent calibration of the published evidence behind this venue's editorial stamp — not a personal dining rating, and never derived from Google data. It starts from the stamp's base value, applies the five evidence adjustments below, then clamps the result inside the stamp's band.
- Source consensusmoderate+0.05two independent attributable sources or some disagreement
- Critic calibremajor+0.15Michelin, Tatler, Time Out, CNA, Straits Times/ST Food backing
- Praise specificityhigh+0.10multiple concrete dish/experience signals and supporting guide detail
- Consistencylow−0.15mixed stamp, explicit caveats, or material contrary signals
- Evidence recencycurrent+0.05newest assessment, publication, or verification is 2025 onward
Scores are rounded to one decimal place and are only published for venues carrying an evidence-backed editorial stamp. Full rubric: Forkin Evidence Score methodology.
Editorial stamp
WORTH A LOOK
Confidence: mediumForkin desk assessment of attributable public coverage — not a personal dining review.
Four countable exact-outlet evaluations, but they diverge: the most recent independent review concluded the meal was too expensive and offered nothing new, and the 2022 coverage already described the experience as safer than its Stockholm parent. Unanimity is absent, so the top band is withdrawn while MICHELIN's three stars keep critic calibre at major.
Last assessed 14 August 2026 · 4 linked substantive sources
Linked evidence
MICHELIN Guide (guide.michelin.com) · 4 August 2026Iternitty (iternitty.com) · 5 February 2025Major Foodie (major-foodie.com) · 4 August 2022Travels for Stars (travelsforstars.com) · 11 November 2022Tatler Asia (tatlerasia.com) · contextCaveat: Stamp reduced from FORKIN WORTH IT because the favourable view is not unanimous: Iternitty, which declares that it pays its own way, would not return and judged the meal poor value. The previously cited Tatler Asia review could not be retrieved for verification of date or treatment and is not used. Two of the four countable sources date from 2022; the current anchor is the MICHELIN Guide Singapore 2026 selection and Iternitty's February 2025 review of a December 2024 dinner. Major Foodie's independence rests on the article stating the writer's own bill total; there is no separate publisher-level policy declaration.
How these stamps work · They are non-numerical and separate from Google Maps information.
This listing is backed by the following public sources:
restaurantzen.comfrantzengroup.comcitynomads.comMICHELIN Guide Singapore 2026 — Three MICHELIN StarsFacts, opening hours and social profiles can change. Confirm current details directly with the venue before visiting. Record last verified 10 August 2026.