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| - This restaurant is located inside the Bramalea City Centre. Well technically it's part of the mall but the entrance is from the exterior facing Queen street (north west side) between the Pickel Barrel and Sears close to Forever 21. One of the exterior walls didn't even look like it was finished yet. I don't know how new this place actually is. I was meeting some friends for a Friday night dinner and we were coming from all over so we made it a bit of a later start instead of our usual time.
This was my first time to any of the August 8 restaurants and while I've been to my fair share of AYCE sushi places this place seems to be comparable in quality and service to say K&B in Etobicoke. The decor looks classier and although the interior tones are darker such as browns and blacks the place is well lit and neatly furnished. There are some walls that seem bare though, some that have shelves with nothing on it but besides that really it's just a bonus to have a nicer looking place than some of the other AYCE places I've been to which seem cramped and noisy. If anything our group was the noise makers - you know who you are...
The portions are generous although I found the nigiri to have a lot of rice and they weren't flattened as much as I'm used to and seemed to be more "ball" shaped. As expected the ordering is done through an iPad and anybody that's been to AYCE knows the deal, point and tap and tap and tap. Greediness can get the better of you at a place like this if you're a starved group of food loving consumers like this group was and I almost hate to admit it but I think we lost this battle as far as AYCE goes. I am ashamed that although I put up a good fight, I can admit defeat when it's the truth. It's safe to say we all came in with good intentions and those intentions were to take no prisoners, order a lot and kill it. We ordered so much the servers had to start pulling tables together to our two tables because we had nowhere else to put everything that was coming out. At one point our kind server asked us if they could suspend everything else that was in queue. We agreed. That's a loss in my books.
Despite the fact that our greedy eyes are bigger than our stomachs we did well for the most part. Seaweed salad, a variety of hot food such as wings, katsu, kalbi, dim sum and other small dishes started us off and we were all gung ho but then the rolls and nigiri came and came and came over and over and over and we were like Sun Tzu had our number before we even began.
We had caused our own defeat
Pwned by sushi at August 8
More than we could consume
Between the maguro nigiri (OMG they had this at an AYCE place?), unagi, salmon, torched stuff, we didn't even get to our sashimi because that was part of what we had conceded to which when we were begging for mercy.
OK so we behaved badly but we weren't punished by August 8. If anything our punishment was self inflicted and August 8 was gracious in their dominance of our team. Pwned as we had been, we were still able to walk away.
What I learned from this experience is that even the best can go down - hard and without remorse but at the end of the day all is forgiven and hot damn if they didn't have some of the best looking and tasting tataki I've ever had.
Good stuff here and I'd definitely go back to any of their locations. I learned from this AYCE experience. I was humbled and was not left wanting... any more food that is.
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