Lin's Garden - Waterloo

Chinese, Asian, Chicken

Lin's Garden

★ 3.2 / 5 (120 reviews)

Lin's Garden, a Chinese restaurant in Kitchener-Waterloo, has received mixed reviews from customers. Some long-time patrons have expressed disappointment in the decline in food quality, citing changes in recipes and portion sizes. Complaints range from tasteless dishes, soggy chicken, and lack of flavor to unprofessional service, late deliveries, and incomplete orders. However, others have praised the restaurant for its friendly staff, quick service, generous portions, and delicious food, such as the shrimp and chicken dish, Singapore noodles, and mixed vegetable dish. Despite the mixed reviews, Lin's Garden remains a popular choice for Chinese cuisine in the area, with loyal customers vowing to return for more.

Last update: 17.01.2026 from: Ash

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★ 3.2 / 5 from 120 reviews

Was Vida Schmidt at Lin's Garden a mag?
The food is always good and the staff is friendly and very accommodating to requests. My family greatly enjoys the selection and how quickly the food is prepared. View all feedback.

What Jarrell Shanahan dislikes about Lin's Garden:
We've been going here for many years (probably almost 10 years and have always enjoyed it and recommended it to others. It was the ONLY place we would go for Chinese food! A couple months ago we noticed a change-everything tasted a bit different (and...not in a good way! . We thought we would try it again and once again we were disappointed. Appears to be new ownership and they changed things enough that we probably... View all feedback.

Johnson

24.12.2017

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

This place is great! I'm vegetarian so I ordered the Veggie Combo 12 and for under ten dollars you get a massive amount of deliciously greasy rice,

Eden

20.01.2018

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

First time trying this restaurant. Tried a number of takeout items. Gastronomic issues & nausea shortly after eating both my husband & I. Will never eat from this restaurant again.

حسناء

20.01.2018

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

My husband picked Chinese for his b-day dinner, which is Feb 14. So he ordered the food at 4:45, was told it would be 45 minutes. So we waited. At 5:45 he called to see if the food was on its way and was told it would be another 30 minutes. So we waited, again. So at 6:30 when it still hadn't arrived he called again and no one would answer the phone. He tried a few more times to call but still no answer. So at this point we decided we would just go and get something else as we had a pretty cranky 18 month old. Our food never did show up and we never got a phone call saying it wasn't coming. Good thing is we didn't pay up front for it. My husband called today to see what happened and was told that they got backed up and didn't have time to make our order and that we weren't the only ones that didn't get food. A simple phone call to let us know that they couldn't fill our order would have been nice. Needless to say we won't go back because of the poor customer service.