Carmel Restaurant Guide

Excellent food. The new owners are much better at their craft than the previous owners (Lin's garden). Great portions also.

A good Chinese take-out place. Ignore the review of Lin' Gardens from 2002, this is a new owner. The food is as good as you get around here. Eat-in motif is a bit sparse.

I eat here all the time. The food is great. It usually is ready on time - on occassion they are swamped with business and can be a little late but that is rare. Honestly, it's a better place to get take out as the inside is nothing special. The woman who runs the restaurant is the hardest working woman I have seen. As busy as she is, she always tries to go the extra mile on service. I have been there for the lunch buffet and it's good, too - but mostly we get take out and enjoy it. They usually throw in something free if it's a decent size order...which is a bonus.

I have eaten there, several times always, fast and delicious. Never a let down!!

I picked up carry out from Lin's tonight, was told it would be ready in 20 minutes but it wasn't ready until 40 minutes had past. The last time I ate here I ordered fried wontons and they sent me home with crab rangoon. They did the same thing again tonight. An order of Chicken Chow Mai Fun tasted like the plastic container it was in had been set in a microwave and partially melted into the food. An order of hot n sour soup was just as bad. My egg roll was horrible, The wonton soup, the potstickers and the sweet rolls were ok, but it seemed that everything that was fried tasted terrible. I got potato skins and cheese sticks for my kids and when they refused to eat these I tasted them and about gagged. It was terrible. I think there must have been a problem with their oil they were frying the food in. Here's some good advice, if you want chinese food in Carmel there are plenty of restaurants. However at all costs you must avoid Lin's Garden, at the corner of 126th street and US 31, next door to Joe O'malia's Grocery unless you like being disappointed, in that case, have at it.