Yoshida Japanese Steak House, Asheville

For more than 25 years, Yoshida Japanese Steak House has served as a destination for Teppanyaki-style Japanese cuisine, where dinner and entertainment are one and the same. Seated around a blazing-hot, stainless-steel grill, diners watch as their dinner is prepared before them by the hibachi chefs, who slice, fling, and animatedly sear shrimps with all the precision and good nature of a friend with lasers for hands. Those with a hankering for something cooler can order from the sushi bar, where chefs create a long list of specialty rolls, nigiri, sashimi and sushi platters.