text: Not A Good ValuennWow I m a bitch I just realized that I gave Lins Grand Buffet four starsnnOver the years we have become rather stringent in our reviews There is no sense in being conciliatory when there are so many other restaurants to patronize Our dollars go only so far So if you are a reader who will eat just about anything you may like this place a lot It starts out very promising It is neat and clean inside and quite romantic and the people are friendly Great date night for intimacy just not for foodies If you have a trained palate you will get more out of this review If you like anything then you will probably not get much out of this review We love all foodeven truck food We do not discriminate but we give fair reviews and credit only where credit is duennStarted with the breadbasket There were of us so only rolls brought They were small and stale We also had the pepperdews stuffed with goat cheese six per order at a plate and the bruschetta we chose an order with half tomatoes and half crab meat There were two of eachnnThe goat cheese appetizer was cold not at room temperature therefore the sweetness of the pepperdews was a bit cloying but redeemed with the pepper flavored olive oil A dollar a bite Kind Of leaves a bad tastennIn our opinion the pepperdews should have been packed in extra virgin olive oil and stored at room temperatureand the cheese filling taken out of the fridge an hour before opening the restaurant The entire appetizer should be room temperatureif they had been we could have eaten another plate of them The idea of them is appetizing but the presentation abysmal Side note The bit of green on top was wilted to the point of browning and would make Chef Ramsey cry Flair is not as important in our book But just sayingnnThe bruschetta for the money was a huge disappointment While there was a sufficient amount of crab on each slice of toast the bread was not fresh it was not piping hot and the crab was absolutely frigid Crab should have been warmed up first then served over PIPING HOT TOASTY breadwhich it was not The crab was obviously fake another kind of flaky white fish Barely passable The garlic was abundant and good The tomatoes were sweet cherry tomatoes We would take imported canned San Marzanos al fiorno over fresh cherry tomatoes any day of the week Just a disappointmentnnMy Sicilian husband pronounced the bruschetta as an Italian would brooSKETTah The waitress passiveagressively shamed him by repeating it twice as most Americans say it brooSHETTA which only showed her ignorance Otherwise she was extremely friendly and talkative and the service was consistently good throughout our meal I am being very fair here She was truly nice but she was sort of cluelessnnOur California Chardonnay was for the bottle and our server described it as oak barrel aged It had zero oakso we think our server possibly made a bit of a mix up there Anyway it was just okay I expect a lot more for the money but even then we still consider for a bottle a low priceevery day price and yet it should have been better but then wine is totally subjective in our humble opinionnnWe ordered a margharita pizza because we did not think they could possibly disappoint us with something as beautiful and simple as tomatoes fresh mozzarella and fresh basil Oh boy it was PRACTICALLY INEDIBLEnnThe crust was decent even a bit blackened on the bottom like we like it And that is where that ends The cheese was a fancy shred blendlike something you would buy at the grocery store HORRIBLE Where were our fresh dollops of beautiful mozzarella The basil was fresh and friseed They put cherry tomatoes on this pizza Not good Amano Not good The tomatoes were too smalltoo sweet Justwrong This is not the pizza of our homeland Barely palatable The reason for one starnnIn our ongoing effort to find something noteworthy we did something that is law in our bookif the menu offers creme brulee we order it even if we are not hungry Creme brulee is a godsend Unfortunately the creme brulee here is meh If you have had truly great creme brulee nothing else will compare The best we ever had was at Cafe Cherie in Montreal It was in a low wide dish with a thick rich custard and thick hard sugar top Amano serves a small light creme brulee with a sugar top as light as an angels wing If that is your thing you will love it The vanilla bean had a good flavor It just fell short in our book and againit was frigid like almost everything else we ate there Amanoyou must take things out of the fridge You would solve most of your problems if you did We did not order the olives for fear they would be pulled from a fridge