While the idea of staging your own hibachi performance at home seems appealing at first, it loses steam once you realize that you can't juggle knives or violate the neighborhood's longstanding ban on onion volcanoes. Leave lively grilling to the professionals with this Groupon.

Choose Between Two Options

• $20 for $40 worth of hibachi and sushi cuisine on any day
  
$20 for $40 worth of hibachi and sushi cuisine Sunday–Thursday

Hibachi chefs cook lively bites from a menu that includes hibachi vegetables and tofu ($7.99) or steak with shrimp ($24.99). The sushi menu houses delicate feasts such as nama sake smoked salmon ($2.75/piece) and black pearl rolls with unagi and black tobiko ($7.95).

BC Osaka

At BC Osaka, the chefs aren’t merely makers of food. Instead, they’re ringmasters, orchestrating the lively chaos of a hibachi grill into a meal that’s one part entree and two parts performance. At the island hibachi stations, chefs show off their mastery of food prep and knife work as they elaborate on an ancient Japanese barbecue tradition, resulting in tasty meals of filet mignon, garlic lobster, and teriyaki chicken. Each showman-cook-in-training practices their craft in front of their veteran workmates⎯many of them with up to 25 years of experience⎯for at least six months before earning a spot behind the grill and the traditional steak-shaped epaulettes of a professional hibachi chef.

In addition to hibachi shows, BC Osaka also houses a sushi bar lined with red-leather barstools, where guests spin in anticipation of tempura-shrimp dragon rolls topped with creamy avocado fillets, or exotic morsels of sea urchin and giant clam. A buffet also sates any endless appetite that makes its way past the dining area’s dark polished wood and tasseled Japanese lanterns.