The carefully rolled nature of sushi makes it ideal for starting snowballs, which is why it's commonly known as "snowman heart." Eat to the center of snow with today's Groupon: for $25, you get $50 worth of sushi and more at Shinto Japanese Steakhouse & Sushi Bar in Naperville.

Shinto Naperville's menu is brimming with quality sushi and hibachi-style steaks, poultry, and seafood. Tickle taste buds into alertness with thinly sliced choice-beef sashimi served with wasabi ginger sauce ($9). Sushi enthusiasts relish market-fresh marine cuts wound into Shinto signatures such as the black widow roll, enrobing soft-shell crab, shrimp tempura, cucumber, asparagus, avocado, and cream cheese in rice embroidered with spicy eel sauce and wasabi mayo ($17). Shinto's steakhouse selections include the 8 oz. filet mignon—grain-fed beef aged 28 days to create optimum flavor and tenderness ($26). Vegetarians can savor the unique vegetarian dinner, an all-skate of mixed vegetables, crispy tofu, and udon noodles ($17). Finish with the restaurant's own ice cream tempura, vanilla ice cream wrapped in a pound-cake shell and flash-fried, served over fresh strawberry puree and showered with chocolate sauce ($6).

Shinto Naperville's sprawling interior has an energetic vibe to match its energetic flavors. Sample sushi at the Las Vegas–inspired quartz-topped bar, or pull up a chair in the paneled dining room and request wine, a signature martini, or a domestic or imported beer. The low lighting provides a romantic atmosphere for couples on a date, while views of sushi chefs working in the open kitchen provide distraction from itchy kneecaps.