A high-protein diet can help build muscle, which comes in handy for fighting off a shark that is also on a high-protein diet. Take a bite out of the circle of life with today’s Groupon: for $38, you get a churrasco dinner for two at Samba in Universal City (a $76 value). Choose from the following redemption options:

• Any Sunday–Friday, valid January–April
• Any Saturday in January
• Any Saturday in February
• Any Saturday in March
• Any Saturday in April<p>

Ten types of skewered meat rotate slowly over a mesquite fire pit in the kitchens of Samba before they journey tableside to be sliced by attentive servers. Step into a colorful, carnivalesque atmosphere and settle into high-backed black booths to await towering skewers of beef, lamb, and seafood. Gourmet salads, recently uprooted from rent-inflated soil, take up full-time residence in a salad bar, where a selection of side dishes awaits diners’ perusal. As meals reach their conclusion, patrons’ eyes feast on a nightly samba show featuring headdress-sporting dancers swaying to silky-smooth tunes strummed by a guitarist. Though not included with today’s Groupon, Samba‘s full bar serves up 20 variations of Brazil’s national cocktail, including a cucumber-jalapeño and the flor de coco. Diners are asked to take no longer than two hours to finish, much like everyone who checks out Ulysses from the library.