Gold: Best Upscale Japanese Restaurant – 2014 – 2017 Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Award

Gold: Wine List Award – 2014 – 2017 Vancouver International Wine Festival

Top 100 Restaurants in Canada – OpenTable – 2015

Exquisite Modern Japanese Cuisine in a Unique Atmosphere

At Zest, we offer modern Japanese cuisine executed with pride, passion and flair based on traditional methods utilizing the finest local ingredients around British Columbia. We are the very first Japanese restaurant in Vancouver to implement a refined wine and sake program with a focus on diversification, current trends and food pairing which harmonizes the intricate and delicate flavour of Japanese cuisine

Zest has been created for your enjoyment. An intimate space of warm colours, textures and intoxicating scents await you. Contemporary ambience, meticulous service and soothing sounds will entice and relax your senses for an evening of sensual bliss.

What's New

May 6, 2017

BORN + REBORN – We are closed for extensive renovation on May 28th.

After almost 12 years in business, Zest Japanese Cuisine will temporarily close its doors to be renewed. We have planned an extensive renovation as of May 28^th 2017, and will therefore serve our last dinner on Saturday May 27^th, 2017.

Also, we have some very exciting news. Our executive chef Tatsuya will move on to open his own restaurant in the Metrotown area this year. We were not able to make an announcement up until now as his lease agreement was just completed last week. We are very happy and excited for his new venture. We hope you can visit his new place and continue to enjoy his incredible pairing of wine/Japanese cuisine.

For the current Zest location, we will be reborn and will continue to serve high quality Japanese cuisine using the best ingredients possible, lead by a new executive chef arriving from Japan; the details will follow in our newsletter in a near future.

We appreciate your patronage and kindness you have given us throughout the years. We definitely could not have achieved our goal without your support.

For customers who plan to visit us during our construction, we apologize for any inconveniences this may cause you. We will contact you upon our reopening.

On behalf of all the Zest staff, we thank you again and hope to see you very soon in a new format.

Iori Kataoka

President, Zest Japanese Cuisine