Always been very good food. Wait staff does the best they can with the amount of people. Spacious restaurant as well. Been there 3 times and I've never had a complaint since theres a good variety of food and prices are average for an all you can eat buffet. read more

Price is reasonable, good food and customer service. Visiting AZ and yelped for buffet, glad we picked this one!

My wife and I tried Lin's due to it receiving good reviews. We went around 5pm because we assumed the food would be fresh. It was definitely not! The chicken dishes were cold, chewy and hard. It appeared as though they carried the food over from lunch. The hibachi grill is small and limited but at least it tasted fresh. We spent $27 for two without drinks. There is zero chance we'll go back. I'm giving up on Chinese buffets in Phoenix metro. From now on we'll go to a Chinese restaurant or a hibachi grill. Also, the men's bathroom has graffiti all over it. No effort to clean it up. Very disappointing. read more

Its a good place to go, lots to eat in quantity , some variety of foods mostly the normal Chinese foods , a grill station and salads and chicken, pasta , sweets . I love coming here staving and leave satisfied . There is a line during peak hours but thats when you know its good food . If there wasn't a line and dead place, i'd be worried. Go try it, yes its a buffet but better than most. read more

i liked the food but after a hangover who won't eat anything! great place for hangover not have when sober. great place to people watch that's for sure! read more

Group of coworkers and I went to try Lins for lunch, and after reading several reviews, I was interested in seeing how clean the floor was, to my surprise it was clean, tables & counter tops were clean as well. We told the hostess that we were a party of 11 and they looked confused on where to put us, they sat us in the back at 2 different tables so the party got broken up, but that didn't really bother us too much. The buffet was 8 per person not including drink, I ordered a drink and it averaged about 11 for the meal. Another thing I was searching for was the enchiladas, few had mentioned that there was some and low and below I found them! Cheese enchiladas, I didn't try them but some coworkers did and they said they tasted good. The buffet offered a lot of choices for food, any picky eater would be able to find something, but the food itself was ok it wasn't bad, but it wasn't spectacular, and left me wanting more in flavor. Glad I went and checked out Lins but I probably will not be going out of my way to try it again. read more

The food is really good here and is always very busy as well. I do think it's probably one of the most expensive buffets I've been too but it's a really good place to go out to eat with the family read more

My British sister visited and as this restaurant is just down the road and we were tired, I took her there on her last evening before leaving. It was after 8:30pm and that might of accounted for some of the scanty selections and missing desserts. What was there was delicious, particularly the ribs and crispy cooked veggies. She enjoyed it and I liked that it did not hugely dent my wallet. I had been there before for lunch enjoying a perfectly cooked plate of garlic shrimp and asparagus, so I'd suggest either catching them for lunch or earlier in the evening for the best selection. read more

Beautiful restaurant. Terrible food. There are so many good Asian style buffets out there, that I thought this one might be good as well. WRONG. The only good thing is the green beans. I am not a picky eater and the two times I came here I left disappointed and grossed out. I would describe the container they store their mystery sushi meat in as a "chum bucket". Yes, it's that bad. read more

Fuck. This. Place. I specifically downloaded yelp to write a comment about how terrible this food is. Everything sits like you just ate road kill soaking in Chinese flavored msg sauce. I'm not a disgruntled customer. Service was fine. But food is disgusting. Buyer beware. read more

My insides are dryer than a 90 year old nun right now so please, please stop with all the salt. Everything about this place was great except for the literal bags of salt that must be being poured into many of the dishes, rendering them almost inedible. I told my gf after we left that we got a really good deal at this place... $11.99 per person and at least $7 in salt each. She didn't laugh. read more

not so great of a buffet. we arrived and went to the buffet. upon coming to sit down there were no drinks at the table. both my boyfriend and I got halfway through our first plate and still no drinks... no waiters in sight either. we asked the hostess and she got them for us. besides this, there was nothing on the buffet I was interested in besides cheese wontons and spring rolls... all of the chicken was very low quality. it was fatty/hard/old/tasted off. it's pricey for what they have to choose from. they do have more desserts than any other buffet we've been to, but as we all know, chinese buffet desserts suck so that's irrelevant. read more

What a rip-off! They charged us for a beverage when we didn't even want it. And seriously, $5.99 for a beverage? I know it's a buffet, but that's like highway robbery. I think I will go somewhere nice next time. read more

I would give this place ZERO stars if I could. This is such a rip off. Food was cold and disgusting. Nothing was fresh or nearly warm. Even the popular stuff like orange chicken and fried rice. Took maybe 3 bites and was unhappy. Went up to the front and asked for a manager. Waited 10 minutes to speak to one and when she approached me she said "what's the Problem". I expressed to her I was unhappy and wanted a refund and she asked if we ate and I told her maybe 3 bites. She said she cannot give me a refund. I said why not, she said because you ate the food. I said where are your signs that say no refunds? She was completely clueless and offered me nothing, not even to warm up the food or remake Anything. Not a voucher coupon. Strongly discourage anyone from going to this place. Absolutely disgusting and very dissatisfied. Do not go here!!!!!!! read more

Service is horrible, cashier is very rude, and one register open with 30 people in line, no management on duty for lunch rush on a Friday afternoon. Priced well. Food was okay, I've had much better, we will never return. I don't recommend. read more

My daughter loves this place, and I've never been, so I took her here as a reward for a good report card. As soon as I pay and we are seated I hit the bathroom. As soon as I step in to the men's room I'm hit with the scent of stale urine and the sight of graffiti reminiscent of a gas station bathroom. After I'm done with my business I notice neither of the soap dispensers have soap in them. They were so bone dry it looked like they hadn't been filled in weeks. I told one of the servers after I got out of the bathroom and used some hand sanitizer I carry with me. While I filled my plate the only thing I could think of was the chefs who cooked the food who hadn't used soap to was their hands and all those before me that had grabbed the serving tongs. After I sat down with my daughter to eat I glanced over towards the servers area just in time to see one of the servers in plain view shoving his finger in his mouth to pick something out of his back teeth and then grab someone's drinks to bring them to a table. Needless to say I was disgusted. The only reason this place gets 1 star is because the little food I did manage to stomach was okay, but I won't be going back. read more

However when you look at Lin's buffet among other buffet one will add that it way out of the ordinary buffet. What set this restaurant apart from others is there sense to details with everything such as, the cleanliness of the restaurant on the point of entry, the layout of the seating; third the Variety of food being display in front of you and finally the prices is affordable to anyone. Lastly eating at a comfort mind set without worrying about what you are consuming into your body. When I approached the building I was impressed with the land-scape design of the place. This was unusual main you would find most of this restaurant stacked into a plaza where sometimes it hard to locate them, and the land-scape isn't always attractive or welcoming to customers.As I got into the restaurant I was received by the receptionist, she walked me to the table and asked me what I wanted to drink, after giving me all the drink choices they were serving I told her that I would drink sprite. After that she told me that she will be back shortly, also I could go and start serving myself. It took her few minutes to come back with my sprite; I have been in high end restaurant where I had to wait for 10 to 15 minutes before I could get my drink without waiting on the chief to finish making my food. After taking a quick drink I went to go serve myself with some tasty food. The choices where endless I couldn't decide what I would start They serve different food from all over the world and different cooking. I come from Africa where people like to fry there tilapias and other fishes, and the way meat is cooked is totally different than other countries.While looking around the restaurant around the state and the price for food Lin's buffet is affordable to anyone who wants to eat a lot for his Buck. If you go to a 5 star restaurant you are looking to spend more than $50 to $100 sometimes even more dollars for your meals just because of the chief name or the restaurant. Sometimes the food you asked for isn't equivalent to the price you are going to pay. At Lin's buffet you just have to pay $12 dollars and you can eat all the food you want, also you can eat at your own pace. Am not saying that you have to limit yourself to this restaurant but this is way better than spending $7 to $10 dollars at McDonald where you know the food you are consuming isn't really good for your health in the long runs. read more

Nasty food i saw cockroaches,one time me n my boyfriend went there on a weekend. As we were grabbing food i saw a cokroach in the fruits. We immediately left the place never went back again since that day. read more

Customer service at its worst. With a side of decent Chinese buffet food. It was a 30 minute drive, our first trip, and didn't even mind waiting 20 minutes in line, just to pay and get checked in, then another 10 minutes to be seated. But it went to hell after that, starting with seating us, then asking us to get up and move for another party of 2, then seated at a table that wobbled at least an inch each way, then to the back corner without AC or air movement. There were MANY other empty tables that we could have been changed with, but the Mexican server refused. Told us that we'd have to go get back in line, to be reseated. Then couldn't get refills or ice. We won't be back. And I'll make sure all of my people know why too. Honestly, if you are white, don't waste your time coming here, unless you like being discriminated against by the Mexican staff that are catering to the Mexican customers. read more

I know I said I wasn't a fan of your standard Chinese buffet, but this one isn't what I'd call standard. I'd call it pretty freaking good. If you go on the weekend, be prepared for a wait. The crowd is pretty typical for a buffet, complete with your big families with their packs of feral children. But during the week its less chaos--not always a better crowd but fewer of them. I was impressed with the quality of the food. They had several dishes that I went back for seconds on, not just stuff that looked like it had less chance of making me sick than the other stuff. The fried fish, of all things, was a stand out hit. The kung pao and General Tso chicken were good too. Usually anything breaded is to be avoided, it usually has tree rings from being re-battered and refried for recycling on the buffet. I didn't find any of that here. The veggie dishes were fresh and crispy, not cooked to death. In fact, anything that I thought looked like it'd been sitting too long was replaced with fresh by the time I went up again. Now, the Mongolian style fix your own was lacking in that they used their pre made sauces instead of what you mix yourself. And the sushi didn't look like anything I was willing to risk. Other than those minor issues, it was very good. I would go back and eat there again, just not on a weekend! read more

Really good buffet, had sushi, chinese, and it was great.

Even though I gave this 4 stars I was tempted to give it just 3 but are giving them the benefit of the doubt having eaten there a few times. The place is remarkably clean. The food is usually very good although a few dishes, especially the desserts and Mongolian BBQ could be improved upon. I have to give them credit though for also offering steaks even though I rarely get them. On our last visit the food was as good as previous visits but will visit it again to see if it goes back to the level it ws, if not the star rating will go down. read more

Went for lunch at 11:15 am. Everything was cold on the buffet. I ask the waitress for the manager and she said he would be right over. Never showed up. $50 for 4 people to have lunch and not being able to eat it was ridiculous. This place use to be good. I will dispute my credit card and never return. read more

we have ate here in the past,and food was good, but today food was not good, several chicken items were hard and beef like shoe leather, no manager on duty only head waiter who needs some training in customer service and or mgmt. skills. we wont recommend or return. restrooms were worse than roadside truck stop i wonder what the kitchen looks like. read more

It is quite astonishing how horrible this restaurant is, for only being open for a few weeks you can go in and find the floor a mess, the service below par, and the food cold. I went there during a busy time of the day, and found more then one item on the buffet empty, and multiple dishes cold and flat out inedible. I would have to recommend anyone thinking about trying this restaurant to make the trip down the street to Mcdonalds (and I don't recommend you eat that either.) read more

This was the worst place my husband and I have ever been. The food was awful!! I spit most eveything I put in my mouth out in my napkin. I had a plate full of seafood and after one bite of the mushy shrimp, I pushed the plate away. If the garbage pail was next to me, it would have been full of the garbage food I was subject to. I feared that if I ate anything at all, I would regret it and the bathroom would benefit from the disgusting food. ECK!!!!@ read more

There's always room in my life for a buffet. I must say my experience was much better than I expected it to be. The restaurant itself was very clean. We were quickly seated at noon on a Saturday. I was with a party of 12, they only allow you to put two tables together so if your party is more than 8 you will be split up. The food stations were clean as well, everything looked picture perfect. There was a Mongolian Stir Fry Station, Sushi Station, & "Bakery" (notice he italics). I sampled several chicken items and some shrimp entrees. The chicken entrees were good but they all tasted the same so whether you get General Tso's, Broccolli and Chicken, or Cashew Chicken it's all basically the same flavor- SOY. I liked the soft served ice cream, it beats having little kids try to scoop out their own ice cream like a lot of other Chinese style buffets do. I was brave and tried the Baby Octopus, the sauce was great but it was so chewy that my jaw literally started to hurt from munching so much. Didn't get to try the American food items but I definitely will have to go back and try before I write this place off. The biggest plus was the cute waiter that constantly kept our cups full. read more

I saw this buffet while driving to another buffet and decided to stop and take a look. Had the best experience ever. Food was amazing and the waiter was a really good guy. Had a good hibachi. If your ever in Phoenix you've got to stop and check this place out. read more

I hate the fact I had to wait in line to pay before I could eat. I got stuck behind a large group waiting to pay one by one when me; being alone should have gotten to sit down almost right away. So what if the foods sucks or the selection at the buffet is crap that day? -do I have to fight for a refund then? Total bull. And to top it all off, after paying for my food I'm still standing here waiting to get sat to a table. Oh wait! I just got sat! Ugh-The table is sticky. I'm thirsty and hungry...so I've paid...any day now...Ok someone finally got my drink order. Now to check out this buffet and see what type of food I paid for. Ok, why the hell are the enchiladas right next to the orange chicken?! This "pepper beef" tastes like y'all mixed soy sauce with a can of Campbell's beef stew. The egg drop soup isn't bad. This fried rice tastes like riceroni. Atleast my Coke is scheduled for a refill. Man this food is crap. I was happy about being sat near the sushi bar until I noticed that every roll is just a different use of fake crab meat-there's more to sushi than California rolls Wang Chung. So check this out. I just asked my server how I tip her; because she was the only good thing about this place( she refilled my soda before it was completely gone OK) which I already paid up front and I don't normally carry cash. Wait, I have to go stand in line again to swipe my card a second time. Ugh! Never again Lin... read more

when you have twenty open tables you should seat people. I know being in charge of seating is a very heady position , but you not so important. get over yourself. read more

Lins has decent food and a good selection. They never seem to run out of any of the items even when they are busy.

This is my first time eating here. The food was alright, most of the food was salty. The meat i tried was dry and fish was also salty. Fruits such as watermelon wasnt fresh. Carpet kind of smells. If i was to give a better rating, the food should be fresh and done well for that high amount of price. read more

While the food is okay, they need to research what is and is not okay with a person with a Service Dog. I just went and they tried telling me that I couldn't take my Service Dog to the buffet bar with me. I had to instruct them that anywhere the public can go, he can go. But they still tried to argue with me. They tried telling me that they would help me get my food so that I could leave my Service Dog at the table. I had to tell them that they couldn't help me with the medical conditions that he helps me with. And he is not helping me actually retrieve the food. But helping me with my medical conditions. (Duh) Also, the managers shouldn't be sending their employees to give a message like this. The manager needs to have the gumption to talk to me himself/herself. If another customer has an issue with the Service Dog, the management should aplogize to that customer, and explain to them that the restaurant cannot prohibit trained, well behaved Service Dogs, by Federal Law. read more

This place is gross, bathrooms are nasty, food is nasty, glass was dirty, I actually feel sick... I should have just left and took the loss of my tab. I also actually seen a black guy loading up plastic bags with shrimp and fried chicken. He then proceeded to put the bags in his front pockets. Lol... Do not eat here unless you're desperate. read more

we love this place Missy often asked to go right there as soon as she lands LOL she a picky eater and can find stuff she loves there....Great food! read more

Food is good, waitress was friendly and kind. Dessert is like every other chinese buffet, why so- I have no idea but it's definitely in need of an overhaul. Hostess/Cashier was rude and cold as the inside of a rocky mountain tumbler! read more

You think when you see this building it is the grand daddy of all buffets. Well looks are deceiving! The place was crowded and you barely had any room to sit or walk. The food is just the same as any other buffet, had the same items only there was a section with steak. I was disappointed that it was no different then the regular buffets you go to. I did not like how the tables were all meshed together, I understand being popular but the customers should be comfortable. The price is the usual cost you see in buffets, but I wouldn't call them grand cause they weren't. Nothing spectacular don't get your hopes up. read more

We walked into Lin's Grand Buffet on a Sunday around 2 and there was a line to be seated all the way to the first door (there's the outside door and then a very short corridor with a second door to the waiting area and cashier stand). Thankfully the line moved along fairly quickly and we were able to pay (you pay up front here) and be seated within 15 minutes. I did notice that there was a wait between groups being seated and that there were always open tables with seating available so perhaps during peak times they should staff one or two more hostesses to get it going more quickly. After getting our drink orders taken, we all scurried to the buffet and explored the fairly well varied selection. I did notice that some of the plates were slightly worn out and that the whole restaurant, including the buffet floor, had worn carpet but the plates were clean and the buffet lines seemed organized so it didn't concern me too much. The sushi was plentiful, but nothing special, with the run of the mill rolls you'd expect everywhere. However, the hot food choices were excellent. The different dishes had distinct flavor as opposed to all being slightly more sweet here, slightly more spicy here heaps of goopy chicken. The beef broccoli was great, no skimping on the beef, the baby octopus was tender and spicy, the stir fried rice noodle was great, and the ribs were tender and delicious. The desert selection was fairly standard with a soft serve machine, fruit, and little cakes and cookies. If you're looking for a large buffet to load up on tasty Asian food, this is definitely a good place to go. Sushi might let you down a bit if you're an aficionado, but I feel the rest of the buffet definitely makes up for it. For $11.79 an adult on a Sunday (and during dinner during the rest of the week), this is an excellent value. read more

There is little variety...mostly "brown" - fried, etc - food. Not very colorful food options.

Will never go back again. Cashier rude, given card for payment. She tells us it's declined and hands over a little paper. Ok seemed wrong but we tried another card anyway. Was still bugging me so I logged on to my acct that was supposedly declined. Sure enough the charge was posted! Checked our other Acct and yep sure enough the charge was posted there also! Spoke with the cashier she said she couldn't help. Asked for manager. Although she was nicer, all she could do is tell us we had to come back when the manager and the person who has access to the computer were in for a refund. When asked when that would be, she says she doesn't know! Watch your credit/debit transactions closely with this place. read more