We went to Lin Garden II for the first time this evening. We were impressed with Buffet options. So many item to choose from. Everything was warm never encountered any issues. Service was great, our tea glasses never went empty. Buffet was clean and organized. Definitely will make this a routine in our evening dinner options. Friendly staff. read more

$25 for 1 person with drink included. Lots of buffet options but made me sick for the 2 days following. Won't be back.

Went to Lin Garden II for the first time with the wife and friends Food was very good!!! Prices for the buffet were reasonable I would give them 5 Stat read more

The food was ok, I didn't have to spit out any guk into a napkin. It was good that they have real china, as many chinese buffets now only offer foam. Dishes were reasonably warm. Hot and sour soup ok. The tables and food areas were clean. The back hall area and bathroom, less so. The truly gross state of the faucet, in an area customers would see, led me to wonder just what the standards of cleanliness are in the kitchen. Happily there were no unpleasant gastric repercussions later, but I would not call this a destination place. read more

Lin Garden II - Ummm.... - Chinese Near Me - Inverness, Florida

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I was really hoping to like this place. Although my Lo Mein chicken tasted good- it did not agree with my stomach. My husband had the General Tso. It was not spicy at all, and the quality was not up to his liking. His meal also did not agree with his stomach. We got our meals to go, and ate them immediately as we got home, 10 minutes after pick up. Really disappointed as we were looking for a Chinese place close to our home. read more

Terrible! Tried the Hibachi grill, just little strands of frozen meats, shrimp look ok but was horrible. Tried one piece and spit it out!

Don't judge a book by its cover from the outside the restaurant doesn't stand out inside is a different story very nice very clean and The food was good, the service was very good. Super nice people, if there was one thing I'd like to see is the lights be bright white it's very clean but hard to tell with the color of light in the building. read more

Food is great, have never had an issue in all the years I've been going there. Staff is attentive. Never feel rushed

I really enjoyed our meal here! Everything was really good. Wish I knew how they made the tomatoes on the salad bar! So good with some heat. The choices were all good. I love the salmon. Weird but the wings were crisp and tender! Don't think they had brown rice which is usually my first choice but then everything was good and it's not like they were a healthy restaurant. Green beans were cooked right not sugared down like you get in southern restaurants. read more

This was a difficult review. I have a lot of problems with this restaurant. Could be cleaner. Very small children of the staff running around touching food and utensils on the steam tables. Loud, crying etc... Hard to communicate with a few non-english-speaking staff. My problem? The food is very good. Period. read more

Very good selection of food. Like most Chinese buffets some of the food is fabulous, some I chose not to even try. Service was excellent, our drinks were brought to us in a very timely manner and the empty dishes were cleared out of our way in short order as well. We will definitely go back, as $10.99 is a decent price for a lunch buffet. To wrap this up, I have to say as Chinese buffets go, this one is pretty typical if that's what you're in the mood for. read more

Good Food! We never do Buffett. But the meals are always delicious and consistently delicious. read more

Lin Garden II - a bowl of red sauce and a plate of fried tortillas - Chinese Near Me - Inverness, Florida

Decent portions on their togo/delivery orders Ambiance kind of standard old school Chinese buffet if you go inside Unfortunately the flavor is lacking, we tried 8 different dishes (most of which indicated as spicy on the menu) all of which were close to flavorless ... overpriced for their lackluster recipes (was about the equivalent of the frozen versions you can buy at a grocery store) Because of the overall positive reviews I've tried this 3 times - about a year a part each time - they were consistently disappointing read more

RATS. I couldn't believe it. I sat down with my first plate of food and was finishing my first wonton. I was talking to my dad and watched a huge rat run across the ceiling behind his head.. Not only that but the food was cold and had been sitting. I regretted eating the wonton and will never be back. My dad and I went to the counter to discuss the issue and the workers were not nice or friendly and laughed when we told them about the rat. We didn't eat anything and still had to pay. read more

Our mistake going there and hour before closing Sunday night. Nothing in the trays were fresh at that time of night. No reason to even try considering they are closed on Monday. I understand their position but was dis-appointed non the less. Other times it has been well worth the costs to enjoy their foods. This time it was wasted money for the three of us.. read more

The Lin Garden is not a sushi place. Yes, you can get some rolls an nigiri here on the buffet, but it is not the place to go for great sushi. This place (and I've been here more times than I should have) is for Chinese buffet items like fried rice, steamed rice, General Tso's chicken, spicy beef, broccoli and beef, noodles, dumplings, egg roll, soup, wonton, etc. all you can eat at a fair price. It could be cleaner and they could rotate the food more. Tastes ok, but there is better out there, just not in Inverness. I've enjoyed the times I've been there, but it's a place to fill a hungry stomach. It is not a place to go if you are looking for more than that. read more

We walked in. They left us standing there a really long time. Finally, we sat ourselves. Had to go hunt down our own menus, too. Steamed dumpling appetizers were gross. They were floating in an inch of water. Just bad all around. Chicken lo mein was just mediocre. The restaurant looks nice. If only their food was, too. Won't be back. read more

Staff was dirty, fried food tasted like it was fried in old oil. All the flavors tasted the same. Sushi was decent. Not worth what we paid, especially for lunch. read more

09/12/23. This place is absolutely disgusting. This restaurant smelled horrible, and the tables and napkin dispensers were filthy. The food was horrible as well. My "sushi rolls" were still frozen in the middle and just didn't taste good. I will never eat there again for health and safety concerns. read more

An oasis in a crisis. Good hot chinese food delivered during this virus. Thanks. This place isnt for the phony snobs who want to brag about finding the best sushi. Its just raw food, how could one be better than another. This place is for hungry families looking for a pretty good meal with free delivery. Thanks to Lin Garden for providing this service during the pandemic. read more

Placed an order online at 5pm to be picked up on my way home from work at 5:45pm, I arrive at 5:46pm go inside and ask about my order. I'm told it's not ready and will be in a few minutes. 30 mins later my order is still not done and I'm offered 1 free can of soda or an Eggroll for my 30min of waiting. Are you kidding me? Guess I'll be checking out the other place near by. read more

I've been trying to find good crab Rangoons in Florida for a while now and finally have.

Were from Atlanta, first tome. It's a buffet place (big). They have some pretty good food. "Most" of the food are fresh even though it was after lunch hour. Mom loved her ribs, auntie loved her crab salad. I loved the desserts. Atmosphere was quiet, customer service was good & friendly. Well probably come back if we're in town. read more

Me and the family go here a lot. It's not super expensive but it's always a gamble whether the food will be any good or not. We enjoy it most time though. They have lots of different types of food there and it is very pretty inside. read more

I thought the sushi was AMAZING!!! nice choices clean good service. Yum. Will be back!

My husband and I moved from Maine a year ago. The Chinese food there is no comparison to the buffet or menu items at the Lin Garden II. I was raised in N.Y. and I have to admit, the food at this restaurant is equal to the best food where I grew up. Lin Garden II is very clean, great atmosphere, and the best service. I can not express how pleased my husband and I are to have found this place. Every friend we brought there became "regulars" after only one visit. They also have a room where you can have large parties and believe me, no one would be disappointed with the wide the array of food. There is sea food available and their prime rib is just to die for. The sushi assortment is astonishing and is a meal in itself. I just can not say enough great things about this Chinese Restaurant! I totally urge you to try this place out, even if you don't like Chinese food. I promise you will walk out of there full, happy and totally content. read more

The place is a dump. Stained, worn carpets. Torn and broken bench seats. Dirty silverware. Broken air conditioner. Rude employees or they don't understand a word you say. Food choices have dwindled to pretty much fried rice, lo mein noodles, fried chicken, old grey dried out roast, food sitting in pans getting cold and crusty. Prices keep going up but they keep removing meat items and adding french fries or another vegetable item. I used to like coming here years ago and I keep trying to stop in about once every 2 or 3 months and each time it's much worse. Oh and the employee's kids run all over yelling and being loud. read more

Food is good but if you order the take out buffet wahch that you dont get overcharged I ordered the buffet take out at $4.50 per pound I filled my box and brought it to the register she weighed it and told me it cost $13.00 I thought that was to much for the amount of food I bought but did not question it when I got home I weighed it on my postal scale and it only weighed 2.3 pounds which should have been under $10.00, the food is good but if they are going to rip off there customers I wont return, if you get the take out keep an eye on the scale so you dont get ripped off, its a shame that they do this to there customers because the food is good but I wont return to a place that rips off there customers. read more

Not trying to leave a bad review. I enjoyed the flavors of the food. The egg foo young and the steamed dumplings were so good! Chicken on a stick was good too. The pork ribs, wings, and the crab Rangoon in the poo poo platter for two were entirely too hard. Could barely chew and ended up giving my dog the other pork rib. Overall I didn't go hungry but wish the food was a little less done. read more

Worse Chinese food I have ever had. Orange beef batter was soft like it didn't fry long enough. Spare ribs tasted like they had an American BBQ sauce on them. Chicken wing was so under cooked it was unediable. read more

This restaurant just opened up and replaced a Chinese restaurant that had been there for probably 10 years. It is newly remodeled and looks totally different than before. Everything is very clean, the buffet tables sparkle and the food is very fresh. It has the typical Chinese buffet food. Lunch is served until 3PM and is only $7.99 all you can eat. They also offer seniors over 65 a 10% discount. The hostess and the wait people are not very friendly, not sure I saw a smile anywhere. Service at the present is just mediocre. A dinner buffet is also served, but since I have yet to go do not have the price. You can also order from a menu if you so desire and priced accordingly. We will go back again soon for lunch it was good. read more

Good Chinese food must be hard to come by for Inverness. We didn't eat in for the buffet; ordered takeout. Did not like the sesame chicken. But at least it wasn't hard and stale like the Fortuner Chinese restaurant. The wonton soup was okay but where was the meat inside the wontons? Where was the meat strips in the broth? Pork fried rice had more flavor than the chicken fried rice which had absolutely no taste whatsoever. read more

Really good Chinese food with lots of variety. Very fresh, includes a hibachi bar and a sushi bar. It's about 5 minutes from the house so it's a go to when we are craving some Chinese food. It was a little pricey though and the staff was more occupied on getting the silverware wrapped than getting us a new drink when it was empty for about 10 minutes. Other than that the food is excellent and I recommend to anyone in the Inverness area who wants some Chinese food. read more

Terrible. I set the bar exceptionally low when eating at buffets..this place had no problem creeping underneath it. The sushi was hot ...the cho cho chicken was cold. Everything was bad. I didnt even finish 1 small plate. They messed up even the most americanized chinese dishes ,crab rangoons ,bad,general tsos chicken,awful. Egg drop soup ,abysmal. Worst chinese joint ever and possibly worst restaurant ever. read more

Gross. Food seems as though it has sat there all day. All the temps on hot/cold tables seem questionable. I have been here two times and both were less than mediocre. read more

A good place IF you go after 5pm you will find the buffé hot and good, fast rotation of the food, frendly personal.

Constant turnover of food. . Pleasant staff.and I am very satisfied with this buffet. I love the food choices . No complaints read more

Really good place for the family. My kids love it. I love the noodles, the mushroom chicken is really good also.

This was the worst Chinese buffet I think I've ever been to. I put pictures on Facebook of the Flies they kept landing on my nappkin and silverware. The stuffed shrimp as well as the stuffed mushroom caps were sitting in an inch of a straight oil. The salmon which was so overcooked the ends were curling up out of the pan was sitting in an inch of straight oil. Some barbecue beef that I tried was so over cooked it was hard on the outside. Sweet and sour chicken was extremely overcooked and soaked in oil. The spinach with cheese look like it had been sitting there for hours. The coconut shrimp was drowning in mayo...The Sushi was room temperature... I would never suggest anyone go there and I just moved here from out of town I was really disappointed I drove 17 miles to go here read more

Very good, the Hibachi in the back is to die for. make sure you go around busy time just like normal buffets if it is slow sometimes the food gets old. the people are very friendly and sweet if you ask for something they will get it and fix the problem right away. read more