The show was great. The food was average. You don't actually order your meal, it's a set menu starting with a sushi plate. Then the actual meal is fried rice, assorted veggies, chicken, steak, and shrimp. I will say, the sake was good and a nice change from the standard house wines at all the other restaurants.

If you’re staying at the Hard Rock Punta Cana and manage to score a reservation at Zen Asian Teppanyaki (one of the only two spots that actually require one), consider yourself lucky—or just really good at planning ahead. They sit you with total strangers around a big teppanyaki table, so get ready for some polite small talk while everyone pretends to know how to use chopsticks. The chef puts on a fiery knife show that feels part cooking, part stand-up comedy, though I’ve seen backyard BBQs with more energy. The set menu — sushi, edamame, fried rice, chicken, beef, and shrimp — is decent, but not exactly award-winning. It’s more about the show than the flavor, with fire tricks doing most of the heavy lifting. All in all, it’s an hour of mild fun — you’ll leave looking for some dessert and saying, “Yeah, that was fine,” not “Wow, I need to come back.”

I think you’re here more for the hibachi show than the food. Food was really just a single fried rice dish with 3 meats and veggies. That’s your dish. The fried dough ice cream desert was good. It was entertaining.

This was one of our fave meals. The hibachi was fun and lots of food. Steak, chicken and shrimp with veggies and fried rice. Everything was tasty and well cooked. Didn't love the sushi but it was ok. Miso soup was good. Hibachi show was fun and entertaining. Update: We went back for a second night and it was just as good. One suggestion...wait staff and hibachi chefs should share tips. We tipped the chef thinking they shared but found out they did not. They are a team per table and should just do a percentage each.

We went to Zen at the Hard Rock Hotel in Punta Cana for our Anniversary and the chef was horrible. We did the hibachi which chef didn’t put a show at all, The steak was over cooked, chicken was hard, rice was not fully cooked and he didn’t even ask if anyone was celebrating a Birthday or Anniversary. I was very disappointed.