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.

Opening tomorrow night!

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Greg Sherry, Caesar's Prez Gary Selesner and Marc Sherry

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.

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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:

Ozersky - overcome by our omniscience

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

Fogo De Chão Ups the Ante on Brazilian Meat-fests

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For of you who don’t speak Portuguese (and let’s face it who does?), Fogo de Chão literally translates into “fire of the ground.” More colloquially, it stands for “campfire” or the vertical fire pits that Brazilian gauchos have used to roast meats for hundreds of years. The pronunciation is something like: “fo-go d’chow” — spoken while zipping past the “da” like Emerson Fittipaldi at The Brickyard, and nasalizing the last “ow.”  Trying saying it like this if you want to sound like a Brazilian. If you simply want to eat like one, you’ve come to the right place.

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December is turning out to be a busy food month in our depressed city. Dom DeMarco’s has only been open a week and is going great guns. (There was a 40 min. wait for tables on Sunday night.) New York’s Old Homestead is slated to open in Caesars on December 23rd (and bringing the original steer sculpture from 9th Avenue and Pat La Frieda’s beef with it), and Public House follows a few days later in the old David Burke space along restaurant row in the Venetian.

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Sweet

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After two bites, we were ready to proclaim Dom De Marco’s pizza a worthy entrant into the ever-sweetening pizza sweepstakes in our humble burg.

But we’ll leave an extended analysis of their worthy pies to another day.

For now we’ll leave you with a teaser taste of their house-made sausage — sweet, fine-grained and fennel-ized  — it is a masterful rendition of this too-often bastardized Italian classic. And the presentation (as you can see) is far beyond what you see in your everyday pizza joint.

Best of all, a side order of it only costs $10.

Just thought you’d like to know.

DOM DE MARCO’S

9785 West Charleston Blvd.

Las Vegas, NV 89117

702.570.7000

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It’s the best pulled pork sandwich we’ve had in town in like….forever!

The barbecued baked beans are also a thing of beauty.

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Decent toppings but...

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We have good friends who are crazy about this place.

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Nakamura-Ya is the brain-child of chef/owner Kengo Nakamura.

It has good bread and great sodas (Fever Tree Ginger Ale), and features Italian food with a Japanese twist — what the Japanese call wafuu pasuta.

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It doesn’t even have a sign, has only been open two weeks, and relies only on word of mouth to get customers, yet Le Thai is packing them in at lunch and dinner.

Why?

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It may have the worst location in town.

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What's wafuu wit chu?

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Is everybody turning Japanese-Italian?

From this menu, we really think so.

Just opened, Nakamura-Ya looks like it deserves a look. And a taste.

If only to see how the Japanese handle an “Italian Cheese Platter.”

Or an “Italian Spring Roll.”

Or a “Fresh Oyster & Watercress Risotto.”

Here is a single review on Yelp.

Wafuu Pasuta to you too!

Stay tuned.

NAKAMURA-YA

5040 West Spring Mountain Road Suite 5

Las Vegas, NV 89146

702.251.002

(Dinner only)