The Old Homestead is set to open for customers tomorrow night in Caesars Palace, and has been doing the friends and family thing for a couple of days now.

And when there’s meat around, you can be sure Josh “The Maharaja of Meat” Ozersky will be nearby, testing the grinds, calibrating the cuts, assessing the seasonings and parsing the proteins for presumed perfection.

When we caught up with him last night, that’s just what he was doing….when he wasn’t marveling over his newest, favorite book:

We’ll be reporting more on our adventures in eating with Josh….but right now, it’s off to another meat-fest.