LINS GRAND BUFFET -McALLEN — Restaurant in McAllen

My wife and I dined at Lins Buffet located on Nolana between 2nd St. and McColl Rd. in McAllen. Basically, you pay an entrance fee, enter and grab an available table then barely sit there long enough to place a beverage order. With anticipation rising up so do you, and over to the plate stack you go. Me, I grab two plates. Anyways, Lins has like 4 rows of traditional favorites, and fried items. I was able to get hot fried Shrimp as the attendant was restocking it. My complaint would be there are way more chicken selections than beef or seafood. The salad bar offerings were fresh and well maintained, and fruit was also available. There were several sheet cakes cut in small squares to choose from. I chose a nice looking chocolate cake square, and a spice looking cake. The chocolate cake was dry as blank and the spice cake had no anything. To review, some dishes were really good, and some were just OK. I was disappointed in the green beans, always a fave of mine, but these were way too soggy. The overall quality was not there but if you are going for a food experience by all means go. Would I go back 🤔 probably in the way...

Upon entering great presentation clean dining area and well lit. Seated ourselves to any table and was waited by a young gentleman it took about 5 min for him to ask for our drink order and he did not introduce his name when waiting. Ordered the buffet and tried their lo mein , crawfish, and general chow chicken which "alright " to a regular Chinese restaurant goer . Throughout the seating the gentleman did not tend to refill and was needed to be called . Upon reaching the dessert course their was ice cream but it was not in a walk to freezer instead places on top of a serving roller which made the ice cream texture more to the melted side . The home made donuts to accompany the ice cream did not have much sugar and we needed to roll each one on the excess sugar stuck on the pan. The donuts were "not so great " as per the regular Chinese restaurant goer . Overall , this restaurant gets 2 stars for its not so great service and ice cream presentation.We are the RGV food critique and will continue to rate more of your favorite...

NOT COMING BACK AND WOULDN’T RECOMMEND, especially not for the price. The food was bland! It was terrible, I didn’t like it one bit! I got some hot wings and they were cold and tasted like they had put them in some cheap sauce (gross) and the booths are too small if you’re trying to put a booster seat, we had to keep moving my daughter to get in and out of the booth and the stupid booster seat they gave us didn’t even have any wheels on it like the other ones (they should throw that thing away or buy some wheels) and the owners (I’m guessing it was) were beside us on the top part of the section and all I could hear was they’re child right there with the phone full blast. And it stinked where we...