Before sushi proved how delightful rolled-up food could be, fish had been served folded over rice woven into a basket. Wrap mouths and minds around traditional Japanese fare with today's Groupon to Wasabi Sushi Bar in Warson Woods. Choose between two options:

• For $15, you get $30 worth of Japanese dinner cuisine.
• For $7, you get $14 worth of lunch fare.

Wasabi snares sushi seekers with more than 80 varieties of nigiri, maki, hand rolls, and gunkwan sushi. Begin your chopsticking with the Batman roll, which swoops in to save languishing taste buds with a savory combination of eel, avocado, and street justice ($9). Nighttime noshers can complement the sushi with one of the dinner menu’s mouth-friendly features, such as grilled salmon ($17), whereas day fuelers can avail themselves of the lunch menu’s bento offerings, including the four-part teriyaki beef bento ($9.50).

Reviews

Although reviews are still growing for Wasabi Sushi Bar's Warson Woods location, Yelpers give the downtown location four stars. TripAdvisors rank it #23 out of 1,041 restaurants in St. Louis.

• Simply decorated, light and airy restaurant with excellent service and good food. Sushi ranges from basic to slightly exotic. – GlobemyPlayground, TripAdvisor
• Best sushi I've found in STL. The geisha roll was delicious! – Marguerite B., Yelp