Lin's Asian Bistro — Restaurant in Fairbanks

Today we visited this restaurant, food is good with not so good service. We visit often for the meal. On Sundays they have dinner menu available all day..that means dinner prices. The host not so personable, the server not so personable, at times the server doesn't have the courtesy to walk up to your table to see if you need anything....you have to almost yell what you need across the room to let him know what you want. He doesn't want to give you the moment you deserve as a paying customer and look at you as you ask for something. The meal was good, we spent $70 ...we paid dinner prices at lunch time and we didn't get offered refill on our drinks 2 of those were water...I had to flag him down for my soda refill. I normally don't mind at all leaving a tip ..but after this kind of service, I only left a couple of dollars on a 70 dollar ticket. As we were in our vehicle getting ready to drive off, I noticed the server was at the front door yelling things out complaining about his tip. I don't normally write a review like this but... If your going to have the nerve to follow someone out the door because you didn't get a hundred dollar tip when your attitude and service was all wrong that day, maybe you shouldn't be working these kind of jobs or at least fake it till you make it....

The food is the only thing you should expect to enjoy here. I mean, you came because you're hungry right?

The food itself is delicious for the most part. They have large portions and make sure everything comes out still hot on the plate. Depending what you what, you'll have more than enough left overs to take home with you. Although like most leftovers, it doesn't taste nearly as good as it does fresh.

Service - now that's a little tricky. Out of my multiple visits here, I don't think I've ever had an actual good experience with it. Not necessarily bad but not good either. They SOMETIMES keep up with your refills, check-ins, etc. whether they're busy or business is basically dead. Instead, they're usually always behind a counter or in the back and you have to try to catch them as they pass by if you need something. They're super nice if you're grabbing take-out but wheneber it's dine-in, they're usually rude and absent.

The place seems clean for the most part with no dust, trash, or clutter. It sticks to a beautiful theme that sets the scene of asian cruisine with plenty of spacing among tables, but the carpets they have should really be ripped out and replaced with how poorly it's cared for. The amount of stains and discoloration to it can be extremely...

You think this place is racist, has bad services and even service bad food as some reviews say. The discrepancy of this place is, first they asked if we were Chinese and we said yes! I can't lie that we are. Then we sat down and they gave us a one page menu. Since we were hungry we order, we just ordered what ever is on the menu that was given. Food was ok for Chinese, bland, smaller portions then other reviews. When we were almost finished, more customers came in and were clear not Chinese and they were given a different menu. When we asked why did we not get that menu. Their excuse is, it is not to Chinese taste buds, those are more American flavor tastes buds. It would be nice to have the option to choose also our dishes were smaller and price was different. The other customers dishes had more plus dinner combinations which comes with rice, soup and another side dish. The bigger menu had drinks it would be nice to order drinks for my 3 year old. It would have been nice if they did not lie to us about the menu. It felt a little discriminatory to your own kind. You make the decision. Eat at your own cost, here...