August 8

If I could give this place a zero, I would. Worst service I have ever experienced in any restaurant. Hot food was cold, cold food was awkwardly warm. Lettuce in the green salad was grossly wilted and found a huge brown slimey mess at the bottom of the bowl. Something was moving on the surface of the salmon sushi I ordered. Had to ask for water, ginger, wasabi multiple times. When you ask to speak to management, the manager comes over to apologize. Nothing is done to make amends for the bad experience. Don’t bother writing an email to the owner, he or she won’t answer. I will never spend my hard earned money here again.

I will say from the get-​go that I would probably give August 8 an extra star if the value was there. The food is good but I feel that $ 28.00 per person ($ 26.00 on weekdays) is quite expensive compared to other AYCE sushi places I have tried in the GTA. The price doesn’t even include tea, which I found a little crazy.
Clean and modern restaurant interior. Ordering via iPad at the table is convenient, and it’s nice to see photos of the menu items. Tempura was great, thin crispy batter and not too greasy. Dim Sum was quite forgettable – wouldn’t recommend it. Sushi was fresh, and had good flavor. They also have Sapporo on tap.
The service could be improved upon a bit – we had to ask for more water a few times, asked for wasabi and ginger twice (which was brought out in one small bowl that was not easy to share). To be fair though, everything we ordered on the iPad came out quickly.
All in all, I will go back, but for lunch instead as the price is almost $ 10.00 cheaper for the same AYCE menu.

I was extremely upset with this place that I myself, and my family have been regular customers of. We have been regulars of the August 8 Oakville location for nearly 4 years. I think pretty much since it has opened. As many other reviews have stated, the service here has always been a little rude, however it was tolerable because the food was decent. That all changed a few weeks ago.
While eating one of the roles that they had made, my daughter found a hair in one of her dishes. It threw me off however I was willing to give this place a bit of the benefit of the doubt, however within 10 minutes I found another long hair in my own food. At this point I I lost my appetite completely. When the waiter came by which was very slow and infrequently, I mention the hair in my food and then he went to go get his manager. The manager of the restaurant then comes over to our table and explains to us that it couldn’t have possibly been a hair from their kitchen staff. I then proceeded to tell him that I’m not going to be eating what’s on my table. The manager of the restaurant then tells me I have to eat what’s left on my table and whatever food portions Ive left uneaten, I have to pay for. I agreed to pay my bill but I refused to pay for the leftover portion of food. He then calls the police, the police walk in I told the entire story of my history with them including how often we frequent this place and we have held birthday parties within my family at this location. The officer instructed me to pay the bill which I did and I did not have to pay for the leftover food.
It’s a shame really because I used to love the short ribs at this place. However with or without the police, the hair in my food and the rude service confirmed prior to the arrival of the police officers that I will never eat here again.

Take-​Out Confusion! My Husband and I ordered take-​out from August 8, our first time eating at this restaurant. We haven’t had much Japanese, and wanted to try something different. We ordered the dinner set, which included shrimp tempura, vegetable tempura, teriyaki chicken and a california roll, the mango chicken dinner and the teriyaki dinner, as it was a dish we had had at other places and knew we liked.
Instead of getting it delivered, my Husband went and picked it up. When he got there, the hostess was very confused and told him the order had been sent by delivery. She had to get the manager and he was able to find the meal. My Husband returned home and we realized they had forgotten the teriyaki meal. My Husband trekked back up to the restaurant where he was told, «Sorry, we’re just really busy.» So customer service isn’t fantastic.
The teriyaki was excellent, and if we order again, I would definitely get this. It comes with some delicious vegetables and rice, as did the mango chicken. I liked the mango chicken, and also enjoyed the shrimp and vegetable tempura, all which I was trying for the first time. I did NOT like the California roll — this was also my first time having any form of sushi, so I’m not really surprised.
Over-​all, I think I’d try another Japanese restaurant before going here again. The lack of organization when they were busy and the confusion over our take-​out order makes me think twice of having to deal with that. But the food was good, and I’ll consider them in the future.

Fantastic spot for lunch. The interactive way to order is a great idea using the iPads at the tables. Service is quick and tasty and reasonably priced for lunch (2 guest, $ 45 approx.) buffet.
Diet coke did not taste good at all as it was watered down or tasted like with was half mixed with flat ginger ale or something. Other than that, this was a great restaurant and a great experience and I will always consider for lunch and would like to try for dinners also going forward.

I go back and forth between 3 and 4 on August 8. They were so good when they opened, then there was a questionable period and now the food and service is good again. The blowtorch items on their menu are amazing and the new sunshine roll is great too. We had a party of 12 with latecomers and little kids but our waitress Maddie pulled it off with flawless execution. The iPad navigation is a lot easier to use than in other ayce places.

Very average sushi place. They had a deep fried roll with corn — do not order it it was brutally terrible. Everything was pretty standard but I wouldn’t go back, better places in Oakville.

Alas, I cannot give a zero-​star review. Because I would. The food tonight was great, fresh fish, but the service was horrible. HORRIBLE. No-​one asked how things were. No-​one asked if we wanted another drink. Nothing. No personality.
And we were served the wrong food-​twice, by a learner, but her «supervisor» was bored and seemed more interested in looking at the attractive guests than at her. They would not take Amex, and when I mentioned how odd this was, the same young man listened to me say that, and just walked away without saying one word. Huh?
Then when our own waiter came and I tried to explain why I did not feel in the mood to leave a tip, she also walked off, tearing up my receipt in the mean time, without saying one word. Of course there was no-​one at the exit to talk to. No-​one said goodbye. Worst service in a decade or two, and I’ve been in about 40 countries in those decades. Go for the food but expect horrendous «service».

This was my first time visit. Everything’s average including food, service and atmosphere.
It is a sushi restaurant but serving dimsum as well.
iPad menu seems to be a trend but I still prefer paper menu or at least everyone of us are provided with one.

Kind of hesitated between 2 and 3 stars. The food isn’t great, but it isn’t bad either. I was also a little disappointed by their lunch menu, it really is very limited compared to the dinner menu. For example, no sashimi at lunch. There are better sushi joints in Oakville that cost roughly the same amount. The restaurant is clean though, and looks (but doesn’t taste) more upscale than your typical sushi AYCE.

Not the best Sushi place I have eaten at since it’s all you can eat and when it’s all you can eat things can get carried away like too much food and too much dessert. But it’s a nice location and it has very friendly employees.

This place can get busy on Friday evenings, so make a reservation if you can!
We love going to August 8. I particularly love their salmon sashimi and their rain drop rolls. It doesn’t have as big of a menu as other locations, but there are still a lot of options. They also offer dim sum and bubble tea, which I can’t say I’ve seen anywhere else.
On weekends, the quality of food is GREAT. Definitely ⁵⁄₅. I’ve been a few times during the weekdays for dinner and the quality wasn’t as good. That being said, their quality any day is better than 168, and I’m saying this as someone who used to have 168 every two weeks and thought they were amazing.
Service is always great. Definitely order the sponge cake.

1. Food — Really Good, Well made sushi and their hot items are good too!
2. Cleanliness& Décor — Clean and Beautiful inside
3. Service — Good, always had enough water and tea, food came out fast
4. Pricing –Typical for All you can eat sushi
5. Originality — some special rolls, I like the sponge cake for dessert and the bacon wrapped asparagus too

Waited for 20 minutes for food that when I finally got it, the sushi was cold.
It didn’t taste that great, it felt like the eel was left overs from someone else’s meal, from yesterday that was put in the fridge.
The servers were very nice however and were very apologetic for the wait time.
Also they have free wifi so that helped distracted me from the not so great sushi!
For a place that looks fancy, they don’t really make food that great which was the biggest disappointment.

Service is okay, but the quality of food was not worth the hype.
The one thing I absolutely love is their dim sums. I always order them all at once and make a huge stack/​tower.
I was disappointed how the take out menu was limited comparing to the instore menu. If it’s possible to take out miso soup, anything is possible.

Its an ok place for me. Food takes a while to come out and some of the items that are regularly served in lunch time at most ayce are served only in dinner time. Not happy. Would I come back? Only if someone else is paying for it.

I’m sorry but this place has gone downhill over the past six to eight months. They changed the menu’s and while I still recommended the dim sum, I feel like their sushi quality has gone down a lot and they’ve added more rice. I still go here if I want a combination of sushi and decent dim sum, but it’s become your standard AYCE quality as opposed to the premium they had before.

I used to love this place. Used to.
This place has gone down hill in terms of quality significantly over the past year. Kind of sad — we preferred August 8 over all options in the whole west gta/​Mississauga area.
The food is just ‘meh’ now. No thrills.
The bad:
At some point in time, August 8 boasted sashimi that would melt in your mouth.
This time we had warm sashimi — huge turn off!
They have an app called ‘Eatata’ that you can order straight off of as an alternative to iPad menus — which is neat, yes. However, their app lists ‘Bonito tuna sashimi’, which you won’t find on the laminated menus they give you, and when we ordered it off the app, we were told they don’t actually have any to serve. What?
The ‘meh’:
I get that you can’t exactly expect 5-​star quality when it comes to ordering cooked/​grilled food/​dim sum at sushi place, I understand.
But compared to K&B or 168 Japan Buffet, it was terrible.
The dim sum were puny and frozen. The only good thing about it was that they had a wider variety compared to its competitors. The tripe wasn’t half bad though. Pretty close to the ginger tripe you would get at Chinese restaurants.
As for desserts, there’s no red bean, sesame or ginger. Only mango, green tea, chocolate, and vanilla.
I will say however, their maki rolls are good. Good fish/​rice ratio — just the right amount of rice to. Not to mention they have soft shell crab here.
Overall, I think this marks end of August 8’s era for me. The service was ok, but definitely not enough to make for the food. After that warm sashimi, there’s really nothing left that gives August 8 an advantage over it’s competition.

Kind of meh food overall. Nothing special. They do have pan Asian, so if you want a bit of selection you get it, but none of it is terribly good. It’s definitely decent, but if you’re used to great dim sum, great teriyaki great sushi, or great Korean food, this is middle of the road on all fronts.

Not bad for sushi and dim sum. Portions are small snd most are by piece. Tea are tea bags. 腐皮卷 bean curd roll is deep fried not steamed (usually authentic ones are so I didnt expect it: p should have read the English side). Spicy scallop isnt spicy and doesnt taste like much. Nice place. Clean. Modern. Seats are leather but back rest is facric (I know this is random). $ 5.50 sapporo on tap and sake available.
LUNCH: Mon-​Thu $ 15.50, friday-​sunday $ 16.50, holiday $ 17.50. DINNER: Mon-​Thu $ 24.99, Fri-​Sat $ 25.99, Sun $ 25.99, holiday $ 26.99.
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Three locations: Oakville, Burlington & Hamilton.