Japanese Village is a great place for a larger get-together. Except you won't be having much of a conversation at your table because you're sat around the teppan in a row. Japanese Village is the only teppanyaki in Calgary that isn't from the food court. The chefs here are also performers and if they offer you some "Japanese BBQ sauce" for the rice, do accept and accept in plentiful. That sauce is bombtastic.
Do come for birthdays, just not your own. Unless you enjoy the humilation of being taunted in front of all of your friends.
Alternatively you can also sit in the non-teppanyaki section and just order some food from the same menu and be served quickly.