Lin’s Seafood Buffet

I was charged twice for 4 adults.
we had a $ 16 coupon for this ticket and were charged for the amount with the coupon taken off and also another charge for the full amount. I have tried numerous times to have the manager give credit and 22 days later still haven’t had any response, only promises. We were not disappointed in the food, but to pay twice for the same meals makes you think twice about going back.

1^st and last time! Just paid 39.05 for me and my husband. The food seemed like it had been sitting all day. this place is by far hands down the worst possible place to eat at. Seriously I think I will be sick. Please don’t eat here!
Edited 45min later-​yup I’m sick

I’ve been coming here for about a year and half when they first opened the food was great wide selection including fresh sushi I started having bad experiences with old food and freshness I thought maybe It was a once off situation I’ve given three more times going back after the last time I’m done food was horrible service was still good very good ice cream cups and container was fithy if offering ice cream get a soft serve machine and stop serving left over two day old cafeteria food

The Food was horrible «not fresh». When I was asked by the manager how my meal was I told her how the fish tasted she replied «she eats it all the time and there is nothing wrong with it». I should have taken the hint when this place is huge inside and there are no patrons eating there. They have no conscience to serve people food like that. It goes by the name «New York Seafood Buffet». $ 17.00 for inedible food. 06÷10÷15
Kurt R.

I don’t know where to begin. I should have guessed from the empty dining area that this experience was going to leave much to be desired. Saturday afternoon, you’d expect a good restaurant to have hungry customers enjoying themselves. Not in this case. It was a ghost town in there, no doubt because this place has the WORST food ever! This place is also known as New York Seafood Buffet located on Bell road. There is nothing New York about this place. There is a wide variety of food, but more doesn’t always mean better. And in this case, more definitely means horrific. The jalapeño chicken taste like they poured Karo corn syrup on the chicken and poured a ton of black pepper all over it. Sickeningly sweet. The «shell delight» was more like shell disaster. The oyster shell had some type of strange mixture covered with cheese. I don’t know who is back there cooking, but they really need to stop. Maybe this was an attempt at creativity. Complete failure. The egg rolls were the worst I’ve ever tasted. I bit into it and immediately had to spit it out. I’m use to egg rolls with cabbage, other vegetables, and meat (chicken or pork or beef). This egg roll had NO vegetables and NO meat of any kind. It was filled with a stuffing type mixture. I asked the server to tell me what the mixture was. I told her that I was used to egg rolls with vegetables. She said, «That’s vegetables.» I picked up the stove top stuffing that was in the egg roll and said, «THIS is not vegetables. Can you see this? It’s stuffing» (I have a photo). She looked at it. Her face agreed with me, but she didn’t want to admit it. She finally said, «the egg rolls are usually made with vegetables and meat.» I said, «What? Did they run out of vegetables today?» Absolutely disgusting. Then there were the random meat balls on a stick – which were fashioned on a skewer one meatball on each end of the stick. A peculiar miniature meatball bar bell. It tasted as strange as it looked. The texture was suspiciously odd. I truly doubt it was beef. I’m afraid to think WHAT that meat was, really. The sweet and sour fish was a blob of sweet mush with no flavor of fish and the «vegetable mien fun» was no fun at all. I couldn’t get out of that place fast enough. For $ 10.40 I could have gone to Panda Express and had a really good lunch. Instead, I took a chance and entered the House of Churning Stomach. If you are looking for syrupy sweet meats and slop covered with cheese, and egg rolls made of cold stuffing – you have found the right place. If you prefer food that is edible, do not stop. Do not pass go. Go directly to Panda Express. Consider yourself warned.

Just visited this place for the first time, and wow it was amazing! The food was spectacular. It was fresh and delicious. I recommend everyone to go try it out.

Endless shrimp and crab legs for 15.99 better than Red Lobster period. !!!

The place looks not so clean and the food tastes bland compared to other buffets! Look someplace else.

As a previous reviewer stated «the best asset of this restaurant is its proximity the emergency room». We used to eat at this establishment several times per month. However, over the past couple of years the food quality has declined significantly and we found that it was not fresh. I would recommend spending your money elsewhere.

This is now called NY seafood buffet This was worst food the boy that was behind the grill sitting on the floor on cell phone then he stood up took my plate continue to text the whole time cooking playing with his ear. Something leaking in front of the grill the grill was dirty. Cold food at the buffet tasted awful. Expensive just plain dirty!
The Dr Pepper was good waiter was nice

This buffet has since changed its name from Lin’s to New York Seafood Buffet. Same owner, new chef, and I think better food.
I’m glad I did not read any of the reviews before coming here because otherwise I think I would have missed a wonderful dining experience.
As you know, most Chinese buffet places are not that clean and I was surprised by how clean, well decorated, spacious the restaurant was.
Everything just felt clean. This in itself should deserve 5 stars!!!
The choices were abundant. Most of the food was fresh. We came on the tail end of the lunch crowd so some of the items like the egg custard tart and Seasame balls were a bit dried from being under the heat lamp for too long. And some of the food like the miso soup and beef & broccoli were a bit flavorless.
On the positive side, the sushi was plentiful and fresh, with not too much rice underneath. And they did have chicken feet and braised pig’s feet.
Overall, enjoyable and deserving of my 4 star rating!!!

It was nicely decorated and clean. They do have many things to pick from but most of the food was dry. The wonton soup was never refill the entire time we were there. The sweets were very sad.

We’re rating a Chinese buffet, right? One star to me would equal insects crawling around, poor selection, and bad service. This place is clean all around, one of the bigger selections in the area, and the people working here are friendly and attentive. The food was great for a Chinese buffet. Give it a shot. If you want fancy Chinese, then don’t go to a buffet…

Ok after seeing some mixed review I decided to give it a try and report my experience at this place. I am here as j write this review.
First I cannot comment on what this place was 6 to 8 months ago I can only report my experience as of today.
This is is better than other buffet places out there. The food is pretty good and well with the money. I tried a variety of things and they were all good to me. The service was good the server refreshed my drink immediately and the place was clear and the décor was new and warm. For a meal under 13 bucks I will definitely repeat. To sum it up this place is good Buffett food for a low price.
That’s my review. Enjoy!

I don’t know why people gave this buffet resto low ratings? Do you guys really know good food? I’m a food lover (foodholic) & I always love to try to go to different restaurants just to try it (food adventure is fun) I love exploring different kind of cuisines. So I guess for me I really like Lin’s because of its affordable price, nice atmosphere & it’s clean. I can’t say it’s the best Chinese buffet or food that I’ve ever tried but it’s good.

By far one of the worse buffet I have ever been to. They barely keep their food supplied and the worse of all, I found a piece of hair, yes I said it a HAIR! I found a piece of hair in the self served ice cream station. That station is so unprotected that I’m not surprised a piece of hair fell in. But just the thought of another random stranger’s hair in there is just plain NASTY!!! I even tried to talk to the manager but it took literally 15mins. Before the manager came.

This place was the best buffet around until it went under new ownership a few months back.
Its currently disgusting

Really! This place is worse than the previous incarnation — Hibachi Grill or whatever it was called. I was hoping that new name/​new management = much better buffet. No dice. It was like eating at a bad cafeteria — vegetables oversalted, meat overcooked, and everything just generally bland. And the worst part is the Grand Opening banners are still up. Is this the best it’s going to be? It was also quite pricey per person. If I’m paying that much I might as well go to Pacific Seafood Buffet. Pretty pricey but much better quality.
Meet the new buffet
Same as the old buffet
I’ll take a bite of the sweet orange chicken
Take a bowl of the spicy egg drop soup
Smile and grin at the fools all around me
Pick up my tab and pay
Just like yesterday
And I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again

For those who don’t know it, this originally was named «hibachi Grill buffet», they changed their name because they had so many bad reviews. And I will tell you that nothing has changed here. It is the same company, different buffet name, a pig with a new frock on. Save your time and money. Seriously. I’m not joking, i’m not playing here. Food is dried out, there isn’t a good selection of actual «seafood». The sushi is cooked fish, but thank god for that, because if it was real and raw sushi people would be going to the hospital (thunderbird samaritan is right down the road for those brave enough to eat here). My point is, if they can’t even prepare the existing food correctly, how on earth would they be able to handle real sushi? Good waiter service, but bad food.

This buffet just opened Friday in the spot were Hibachi Grill used to be and it looks the same with the really funny resteroom sign that I tried to photo but couldn’t. Sadly I left hungry with an upset stomach over the foods I tried. I started with some sushi that sort of looked dried out and when I tried a piece the rice wasn’t seasoned and was just gooey and fell apart. I was hoping for some tasty seafood since this is a seafood buffet. I“m not sure I did SEE FOOD but I saw cod and what they called salmon that was a white flesh fish here. I really like fish and I wasn’t able to eat either of them the taste was too offensive. I put some vegetables on my plate but the broccoli was mushy and had a strange taste to it.
Since I still didn’t eat almost anything I decided to try the Mongolian stir fry. I picked some vegetables that looked good and some chicken. The stir fry guy asked me if I wanted teriyaki or soy sauce so I picked soy sauce. He chopped, he slopped sauced it up a bit and he twirled the spatula around a bit for show. It looked OK to me but it tasted awful like an 8 year old made it. The chicken was extremely dry I couldn’t eat it but the way it tasted was just awful like all just soy sauce.
They had one salad that wasn’t completely awful but it tasted like old fish, it was the seaweed with cucumbers and radish. I was able to pull out the radishes and eat the radishes but the rest tasted very fishy.
The chicken on a stick was sweet and weird tasting. (YUK)
My husband tried to eat an octopus and he said it was just like rubber.
They didn’t have much in the way of prepared stir fry dishes.
I tried a piece of battered chicken that was OK and a couple of cold french fried that were edible.
I did like the bean paste stuffed bun that looked like a peach.
The fresh grapes were very good.
I saw loquats so I took some. I popped one in my mouth and had to spit it out because it tasted like something meaty was on it.
They just opened maybe they will get better and just don’t have it together yet?
I also note I didn’t try everything so MAYBE they had some good dishes? I didn’t try?
However I will never return.
As only a slight update This Buffet was featured on 5−16−13 on Dirty Dining with 11 major health code violations. (no wonder why stuff just didn’t taste right) So you should check the Maricopa Co. Health Inspections before you dine here.
ANOTHER slight update Aug-22−13 6 major health code violations according to Dirty Dining on KPHO