Okawa Steak House & Sushi in Santee combines teppanyaki tableside grilling with a full sushi bar at its Mission Gorge Road location, offering a Benihana-style iron-plate experience without the national-chain format. The teppanyaki menu seats guests around communal hibachi grills on the same Mission Gorge dining corridor as Alibi at 9179 Mission Gorge, where evening beverage traffic feeds into the steakhouse's dinner service. Protein options span chicken, New York strip, shrimp, scallops, salmon, calamari, and filet mignon, each prepared tableside with knife-work showmanship, onion-volcano pyrotechnics, and shrimp-toss audience participation. The sushi counter runs a separate menu of nigiri, sashimi, and specialty rolls including a tempura soft-shell crab roll with avocado, cucumber, masago, and gobo. Late-night dessert and boba seekers on the same corridor stop at Honey Donuts on Woodside Avenue after teppanyaki service wraps. The Okawa Special for Two packages chicken, shrimp, and New York strip with miso soup, salad, noodles, grilled vegetables, and steamed rice into a multi-course teppanyaki format.