8 Star Cuisine

Overview:

8 Star Cuisine is a Chinese and sushi buffet located in Richland Mall on Route 8. They have a full menu to order from or you can choose the popular all you can eat buffet experience. Lunch is served weekdays from 11-2:30 for $20. While dinner is served from 3:30-9 weekdays, and all day on weekends for $37. 8 Star is open from 11-9:30 Monday to Friday, and 11:30-9:30 on Saturday and Sunday. The buffet is dine-in only, however you still can order a la carte from the menu to-go or for delivery through DoorDash. 

The Food:

8 Star Cuisine has a large menu to choose from. We ordered the lunch buffet for $20 and were impressed with how much you get. There is a full Chinese buffet with many different main dishes, sides, and soups. You can also find specialty drinks, fruit, sushi, and desserts. Finally, they have a menu which you can special order something from the kitchen like sushi or an appetizer. We ate some from the buffet and order other stuff from the menu and overall it was good.

My favorite part of the buffet was the made to order sushi which you can order from the kitchen. Although the Chinese food I had from the buffet was also good. My favorite sushi was the tempura roll which came with white fish, crab, avocado, cream cheese, then deep fried with eel and spicy may sauces. The only real complaint about the food was some of the Chinese dishes were not properly up to temperature. Some of the dishes I tried were unfortunately lukewarm.

Yellowtail Jalapeno

Salmon Avocado & Dragon Rolls

Rainbow Roll

Tempura & California Rolls

Eclipse Roll

Sushi Taco

Sesame Tuna

Service:

The service here was decent. Our waitress came by to get us drinks and deliver any food we had ordered from the kitchen. We did order the sesame tuna toward the end of our meal but it seemed to take a while for it to come out. Our group already started eating dessert when it finally arrived. 

Atmosphere:

I thought the inside of 8 Star was really nice. Everything is clean from the seats, to the buffet, and the bathrooms. The wall decor was cool with a digital screen showing off temples and nature. There is also lots of space inside with plenty of seating for many groups of people. 

Rating: Good |⭐⭐⭐⭐✩|

8 Star Cuisine is a good Chinese and sushi restaurant. It is currently one of the only Chinese and sushi buffets in Pittsburgh. We liked all the sushi and sushi appetizers we ordered. The Chinese food was also good but we found a couple of the dishes not being super hot which was unfortunate. However, $20 for lunch is a great value and it is definitely worth a try.