Graduation weekend in Norman is one of the most anticipated — and most restaurant-impossible — events in Oklahoma. Families travel from Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Texas, Kansas, and Missouri to watch their OU graduates walk across the stage. And when the ceremony ends, every Norman restaurant table is already spoken for. The families who planned ahead — not with a reservation that seats eight, but with a private chef who comes to the house — have the graduation dinner that the occasion deserves.
Private hibachi turns your Norman backyard, your Campus Corner-area covered patio, or your south Norman home into the evening's venue. The chef arrives before guests do, sets up completely, and performs the full teppanyaki dinner service for everyone at once — your OU graduate, their roommates and friends, the grandparents who flew in from out of state, and both sets of parents all at the same table for 90–120 minutes.
We serve Norman, Moore, Midwest City, Blanchard, and the full OU corridor. OU commencement weekend — the single most competitive May booking window in the state — fills quickly. Confirm your Norman graduation date 5–7 weeks before commencement.
Every Norman event is confirmed with a deposit. Your date is locked as soon as you book — no double-bookings, no last-minute uncertainty.
A single per-person rate covers your chef, grill, all ingredients, setup, and full cleanup.
University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State commencement weekends, Norman and Stillwater family milestone dinners, and Big 12 game-week entertaining at your home
We serve Norman and the surrounding communities — Norman, Moore, Midwest City, and the full OU-area corridor; Stillwater, Perkins, Cushing, Guthrie, and the OSU-area corridor. If you're celebrating a graduation or milestone in either Oklahoma university market, we come to you.
Most Norman bookings are confirmed same-day. Call or text (201) 565-3878 or book online.
Norman families — OU graduation hosts, Campus Corner-area residents, and south Norman suburban households — have found that private hibachi solves the graduation-weekend restaurant problem while delivering the best group dinner format in the OU corridor. Here's what Norman hosts are saying:
Check AvailabilityOur daughter graduated from OU and we had 22 family members coming from across Oklahoma, Texas, and Missouri. Norman restaurant reservations for graduation weekend are essentially impossible by February. The private hibachi chef came to our home on Campus Corner Road, set up in the backyard, and performed for the whole family at once. Best graduation dinner we've ever had as a family.
I hosted a 45th birthday party for my husband at our Norman home — 18 guests. I'd looked at everything in Norman and OKC and nothing could handle that group with the quality I wanted for his milestone. The hibachi chef came to our house, set up on the covered patio, and the performance was something none of our guests had seen before. Everyone agreed it was the best dinner party we've hosted.
Our OU football staff had a team dinner at a colleague's Norman home — 20 people. We'd been to hibachi restaurants as a group before, but the private chef format at home was a different experience. No noise, no strangers at adjacent tables, every order exactly right. A colleague said it best: this is the format for a group that actually wants to talk to each other.
Have more questions? Call or text us at (201) 565-3878
Not in Norman? We serve all of the OU corridor — Moore, Midwest City, Blanchard, and the full Cleveland County area.
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