August 8 - Hamilton, Ontario

The better August 8th location, a far superior dining experience to the upper James location, though I take a ster off service not for their excellent staff, but the ordering app which isn't as well organized as others. It could be improved and network crashed once during our visit.

Food is great as always. We go for the seaweed salad and miso soup first. After, we moved on to the skewers and grilled stuff. Then, we have sushi rolls and sashimi. I suggest just getting water or tea so you don’t get full fast on having carbonated drinks. I find ... the place organized, seating depending on how many people are with you. Definitely come back soon! Read more

Came to this location as it had the best reviews out of all their locations in Hamilton. The food was okay, but nothing really special. I used to come to August 8 all the time pre-covid and back then, it was one of the best AYCE restaurants. Midway eating, a cockroach ... crawled up from under the dimsum steamer baskets onto our dish and that took my appetite away for the rest of the meal. I think I was just too shocked to know how to react at the moment. We ended up squashing the cockroach and we tucked it up in a tissue. The waiter came by and took it away immediately and didn’t address anything. I don’t think I’ll be coming back. The service was great for the first half of this dining experience and then food started coming really slow and waiters just weren’t coming to us. Read more

Great place for all you can eat sushi. Price is reasonable and the Stoney Creek location got a really nice design. Plenty of choices form the menu, everything was fresh and tasty. I do recommend the tempura taco! Other sushi rolls were good as well. Service was bit slow, we run out ... of napkins really quick and there’s no one to offer us new napkins. Drink refills were slow as well. Overall a great experience, will try again Read more

My overall experience was good. We checked in on a kiosk because no one was there at the front desk when we came in. It wasn't particularly busy when we arrived but there was a crowd when we left. While I waited, I saw a couple walk past the ... kiosk into the seating area and were seated. Then I followed and was told we'd be seated shortly, which did happen. The ambience and atmosphere was good. The food was typical for sushi. The all you can eat menu was lengthy with many great options. But I didn't like the flamed sushi as it tasted like whatever fuel they used to char it with. There is an upcharge for wasted food so we had to force down our poor choice. It costs $40 for adults 12+ and half price for children 12 and under. So for a family of 4 depending on the age of your kids you could run $160 - $120. Drink costs are a separate charge with no free refills so our overall bill came up to $200+. You also have a time limit of about 2 hours to eat. So with the upcharge for food wasting, bad tasting flamed sushi, time limit and cost I rate it 3.5 stars but there aren't any half stars. Read more