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New Zen Japanese Restaurant
“4.4 across 254 Google reviews; a sensible spend, nothing wasted here.”
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New Zen Japanese Restaurant
tonkatsu · japanese-curry · Renton
Eater 38
4.4 across 254 Google reviews; a sensible spend, nothing wasted here.
67/100Harry HungryScoreHarry's headline verdict, 0–100. How good the place actually is, once the loud reviews and the timid critics have cancelled each other out.
67/100Worth ItScoreWorth-It Score, 0–100. Whether the bill is fair for what lands on the table. High means good value; low means you're paying for the postcode.
Smart Spend. Harry scores New Zen Japanese Restaurant 67/100 for quality and 67/100 on the Worth It scale for Renton. No paid placements, no affiliate links — just the arithmetic.
The Google-Yelp gap here is real: 4.4 across 254 Google reviews versus 3.9 across 197 on Yelp isn't noise, it's two different audiences landing in different places, and with no Tripadvisor count to break the tie, call it a genuine split rather than a consensus. The Google blurb pitches it as a catch-all menu — sushi, ramen, teriyaki, beer and sake — which tracks with the tonkatsu/curry/sushi tagging here, but a kitchen covering that much ground is one worth going in with modest expectations on any single dish rather than assuming depth across all of it.