Wow,my taste buds are ecstatic of such delicacy from the meal we just had.Totally gourmet Chinese food from dimsungs to desserts!!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Orlando Figueroa
Good asían food !
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Mushroom Rice, Ancient Salt-Baked Chicken Half, Roasted Duck w Black Truffle
S. Xia
70 mins limitation for dining in. It is the shortest I have ever heard. Food are just okay and not good value for money
Hakan Aydin
Ordered rice with duck. A huge pot of tice was there but the pieces of duck were almost invisible..
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
Jiaying Zheng
My favorite Cantonese restaurant in the states!! All the chicken dishes are good. Definitely worths a try, trust me! (I’m a Cantonese btw.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Morty Smith
Very rude server.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
Libinski 0G
The food is surprisingly good here. The place has been around for years, and it has progressed into a landmark Cantonese restaurant with many updates, including tomahawk steak. The service was good today because of the late lunch. They could be pushy for other customers when busy.Parking: It's inside Chinatown. Driving is a nightmare here.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Mini Rag
The food at August is wonderful, dishes like the thinly sliced tofu soup are yummy and not easily available at other restaurants. The ginger scallion lobster it deliciously prepared, and comes with great soft flat noodles on the side. The pumpkin shaped dimsum with custard inside stood out from others. The scallops with clear noodles at the base were excellent. Service is attentive. I photos the restaurant looks more upscale than real life, but that does not take away from the great cooking.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sauteed Lobster with Ginger and Scallion 1pcs 姜葱龙虾
Gemma Z.
The food was just okay, I think the food was overrated and the prices were a little expensive. I like the atmosphere though.
Too pricey. Quality of food has gone down drastically since I last visited before pandemic (been here many times then). The first thing we were told by the hostess was "the seating is limited to 70mins". We were given the check (we didn't ask for) when we were not even half way done. That was rude! We weren't even seated for 30mins and our last dish "Peking duck" just arrived 10mins ago. Do not recommend the Peking duck - the duck is not right, and the sauce was hoisin sauce straight from the bottle- thick and dense! When we were seated, we weren't given water so I asked if we could have some hot tea. The waiter came back with a drink menu - tea is not free here unlike everywhere else in the every restaurant in Chinatown where tea is served free of charge. WE WILL NOT BE BACK ANYMORE!
John Ethan
Decent food, though small portions for the price. The main issue was the service was abysmal. On your screen, in pictures this place probably looks pretty stylish and cozy - but read on to discover that there's more going on that warrants thinking twice before going.Immediately upon seating they inform you of a time limit - understandable and I do appreciate upfront communication. However while deciding what to order, three waiters kept buzzing over us and asking if we were ready at 1 minute intervals. With the fakest lips-pressed-together smiles. When we were ordering, the waiter who took our order tried to upsell us on a much more expensive dish and made snide remarks about our selection choice. Rather than coming off as banter it came off condescending. We ordered 4 larger dishes for 3 people to share and weren't feeling like eating heavy. All 3 waiters who then brought out our food commented on our food choice. How is that professional? We are here to just enjoy some good food not be judged and wheel and dealed.When they brought out the "Assorted Organic Mushrooms Rice In Hot Pot", they forgot to bring serving utensils, no problem we waited. The waiter who came back with utensils began to mix it for us and because my brother was watching closely, the waiter stopped when he noticed a piece of plastic in the rice and offered to make a new one right away. But the way he acknowledged it continued that weird, stand-offish energy. He didn't apologize for the wait or anything - he literally said "--ah. Uhh it seems there's something inside...I'll have a new one made right away." with that same 0.2 second pressed-together "smile".As we were winding down our meal, a waiter came and served our check. No "how was the food" or anything - just slapped it down and asked if he could start taking some dishes away. We still had rice and instead of taking away our soup bowls he took away the rice bowls.As we were working out payment, one of the waiters came out with a dish of 4 quarter sized butter cookies and said "here's something extra" with the cheesiest smile. Let's be real, those stiff glossy cookies are probably 4 cookies out of a 1000 pack from Costco, but even that could have been a cute touch if we weren't already coated with the feeling that this whole experience had been a cheap "pretend-nice" facade.For the restaurant itself -- looks beautiful at first glance, but when you're actually in your booth you'll see that the decor is pretty dinged and banged up. Nicks and scuffs all over the decorations. They've got wine stylishly lit on display that attracts you as you pass by, but actually eating there you'll notice that the nice looking tablecloth is actually throwaway paper thin vinyl that they literally crumple up and replace with each new seating. Just placing a heavy dish on our table was enough to gouge a hole, was hard to take good photos and really drove home the feeling of churn and burn. Consider this - the waiters have clean uniforms and radios, to contrast.Just checked yelp to look up the name of that mushroom dish, and found another person from 2021 who had a very similar experience - so I took my rating from 2 to 1. This is not okay - as a Chinese American I hate this paper thin veneer of "authenticity".
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 1
Polychronis Konstantinos Zachariadis
Way too expensive for the food it offers. Still, food was tasty and we had a good time. The thing with the tips in the US has to change. They “forced” us to pay almost 100$ in tips!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 4
Nyc L.
Paying midtown price, but getting Chinatown service and mediocre food. They encourage you to take pictures presumably hoping for more exposure in social media.
Kim Jin
The best Chinese restaurant! Been here multiple times. Will definitely come back again and again. Food was soooooo good! The only downside is the long waiting time
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: steam chicken with porcini 野生牛肝菌蒸鸡
Too expensive for the quality of food they serve.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 4
Wow,my taste buds are ecstatic of such delicacy from the meal we just had.Totally gourmet Chinese food from dimsungs to desserts!!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Good asían food !
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Mushroom Rice, Ancient Salt-Baked Chicken Half, Roasted Duck w Black Truffle
70 mins limitation for dining in. It is the shortest I have ever heard. Food are just okay and not good value for money
Ordered rice with duck. A huge pot of tice was there but the pieces of duck were almost invisible..
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
My favorite Cantonese restaurant in the states!! All the chicken dishes are good. Definitely worths a try, trust me! (I’m a Cantonese btw.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Very rude server.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
The food is surprisingly good here. The place has been around for years, and it has progressed into a landmark Cantonese restaurant with many updates, including tomahawk steak. The service was good today because of the late lunch. They could be pushy for other customers when busy.Parking: It's inside Chinatown. Driving is a nightmare here.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
The food at August is wonderful, dishes like the thinly sliced tofu soup are yummy and not easily available at other restaurants. The ginger scallion lobster it deliciously prepared, and comes with great soft flat noodles on the side. The pumpkin shaped dimsum with custard inside stood out from others. The scallops with clear noodles at the base were excellent. Service is attentive. I photos the restaurant looks more upscale than real life, but that does not take away from the great cooking.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sauteed Lobster with Ginger and Scallion 1pcs 姜葱龙虾
The food was just okay, I think the food was overrated and the prices were a little expensive. I like the atmosphere though.
Restaurantji Recommends
Too pricey. Quality of food has gone down drastically since I last visited before pandemic (been here many times then). The first thing we were told by the hostess was "the seating is limited to 70mins". We were given the check (we didn't ask for) when we were not even half way done. That was rude! We weren't even seated for 30mins and our last dish "Peking duck" just arrived 10mins ago. Do not recommend the Peking duck - the duck is not right, and the sauce was hoisin sauce straight from the bottle- thick and dense! When we were seated, we weren't given water so I asked if we could have some hot tea. The waiter came back with a drink menu - tea is not free here unlike everywhere else in the every restaurant in Chinatown where tea is served free of charge. WE WILL NOT BE BACK ANYMORE!
Decent food, though small portions for the price. The main issue was the service was abysmal. On your screen, in pictures this place probably looks pretty stylish and cozy - but read on to discover that there's more going on that warrants thinking twice before going.Immediately upon seating they inform you of a time limit - understandable and I do appreciate upfront communication. However while deciding what to order, three waiters kept buzzing over us and asking if we were ready at 1 minute intervals. With the fakest lips-pressed-together smiles. When we were ordering, the waiter who took our order tried to upsell us on a much more expensive dish and made snide remarks about our selection choice. Rather than coming off as banter it came off condescending. We ordered 4 larger dishes for 3 people to share and weren't feeling like eating heavy. All 3 waiters who then brought out our food commented on our food choice. How is that professional? We are here to just enjoy some good food not be judged and wheel and dealed.When they brought out the "Assorted Organic Mushrooms Rice In Hot Pot", they forgot to bring serving utensils, no problem we waited. The waiter who came back with utensils began to mix it for us and because my brother was watching closely, the waiter stopped when he noticed a piece of plastic in the rice and offered to make a new one right away. But the way he acknowledged it continued that weird, stand-offish energy. He didn't apologize for the wait or anything - he literally said "--ah. Uhh it seems there's something inside...I'll have a new one made right away." with that same 0.2 second pressed-together "smile".As we were winding down our meal, a waiter came and served our check. No "how was the food" or anything - just slapped it down and asked if he could start taking some dishes away. We still had rice and instead of taking away our soup bowls he took away the rice bowls.As we were working out payment, one of the waiters came out with a dish of 4 quarter sized butter cookies and said "here's something extra" with the cheesiest smile. Let's be real, those stiff glossy cookies are probably 4 cookies out of a 1000 pack from Costco, but even that could have been a cute touch if we weren't already coated with the feeling that this whole experience had been a cheap "pretend-nice" facade.For the restaurant itself -- looks beautiful at first glance, but when you're actually in your booth you'll see that the decor is pretty dinged and banged up. Nicks and scuffs all over the decorations. They've got wine stylishly lit on display that attracts you as you pass by, but actually eating there you'll notice that the nice looking tablecloth is actually throwaway paper thin vinyl that they literally crumple up and replace with each new seating. Just placing a heavy dish on our table was enough to gouge a hole, was hard to take good photos and really drove home the feeling of churn and burn. Consider this - the waiters have clean uniforms and radios, to contrast.Just checked yelp to look up the name of that mushroom dish, and found another person from 2021 who had a very similar experience - so I took my rating from 2 to 1. This is not okay - as a Chinese American I hate this paper thin veneer of "authenticity".
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 1
Way too expensive for the food it offers. Still, food was tasty and we had a good time. The thing with the tips in the US has to change. They “forced” us to pay almost 100$ in tips!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 4
Paying midtown price, but getting Chinatown service and mediocre food. They encourage you to take pictures presumably hoping for more exposure in social media.
The best Chinese restaurant! Been here multiple times. Will definitely come back again and again. Food was soooooo good! The only downside is the long waiting time
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: steam chicken with porcini 野生牛肝菌蒸鸡