From Our Editors

• The experience: casual food in an upscale, modern setting
• The cuisine:* traditional and contemporary Cantonese and Japanese mainstays range from pork-dumpling dim sum to the signature spicy butter fish pizza
• The name: "August," as in honorable or grand, and "8," the reinterpretation of the word august in Chinese characters, were originally separate, but customers soon began to put them together, truly making the eatery a creation molded by its community