DINERS at Salt Bae’s new London restaurant Nusr-et have furiously branded it "PUB FOOD".
Writing on TripAdvisor, the customer branded the restaurant's prices – which include £850 for a gold-coated steak and a £100 burger both on offer – as "ridiculous" and not worth the hype.
"Apparently 'upstairs' is actually outside. I wasn’t happy seating outside, as it was really cold." They said they were not allowed to put a gas heater on but no-one ever apologised for their treatment.
He said the service he received was "terrible" and the food "wasn't even nice", adding "It was the worst experience and the worst food we had, for the money we have spent. Just ridiculous."
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- Louis Allwood
Who is Salt Bae?
Salt Bae was a viral internet meme which blew up at the start of 2017.
The man behind the meme is a Turkish chef and restaurant owner called Nusret Gökçe.The video of him lovingly preparing an Ottoman steak, posted on January 7, 2017, has to date garnered more than 16 million views.
His strangely sensual meat videos soon evolved into a series of viral memes, with viewers taking particular delight in the flamboyant way Nusret sprinkled a handful of salt crystals at the end of the clip.
Nusret became a celebrity in his own right, cooking for celebrities like David Beckham, Leonardo DiCaprio, and DJ Khaled.
- Louis Allwood
How did Nur-Et become famous?
Gökçe became famous from a series of viral Internet videos and memes.
His fame came from a viral video, “Ottoman Steak”, posted on 7 January 2017.
The video shows him cutting meat and sprinkling salt on it in a “suavely” way.
The video received more than 10 million views on Instagram, and it was at that moment her was nicknamed “Salt Bae” because of his certain way of salting meat.
- Louis Allwood
Decor slammed ‘like a decaying seaside bistro'
SALT Bae's London restaurant decor has been slammed as "like a decaying seaside bistro hosting a cheap Christmas do".
Turkish-born internet icon Nusret Gökçe has hit the headlines for the extravagant prices at his upmarket Knightsbridge eatery – with a £850 gold-coated steak and a £100 burger both on offer.
Now, furious critics have turned to Nusr-Et's interiors, with some blasting the decorating as like a "sh**** lobby of a hotel".
One Reddit user wrote: "You can't even claim you're going there to enjoy the ambience.
"The place legitimately looks like an early 2000s, recently refurbished casino bistro in a sh** seaside town."
Another user replied: "Wow. As someone who lives in a sh** seaside town full of tacky refurb restaurants, even I'd turn my nose up at that.
"The ambiance is 'cheap Christmas-do on a decaying pier that does weddings on the side', and those chairs look really uncomfortable."
- Louis Allwood
Where are Salt Bae’s restaurants?
Nusret is now the co-owner of steakhouse chain Nusr-Et (named after himself).
According to Turkish media, its a million-dollar empire with 400 employees.
Nusr-et’s restaurant locations are spread across the globe.You can find them in:
- Ankara
- Bodrum
- Marmaris
- Istanbul
- Dubai
- Abu Dhabi
- Doha
- Jeddah
- Miami
- New York
- Mykonos
- Boston
- Dallas
- Beverly Hills
- London
Is Nusret married and does he have kids?
Nusret, aka Salt Bae, has kept his relationship status private since he shot to fame back in 2017.
He has, however, shared that he has a staggering nine children.
He posted a pic with all nine of his brood back in 2017, captioning the snap:“The man who does not spend time with his family is not a real man.”
None of their names are publicly known.
Inside Salt Bae’s craziest moments as he charges £630 per steak
IF there’s one name that’s been plastered all over your social media feed this week – it’s likely to be Salt Bae.
The Turkish restaurateur, real name is Nusret Gökçe, opened up his latest luxury eatery in London last month – with already infamous price tags.
Having opened his 14th restaurant in London’s Knightsbridge, Salt Bae found himself at the centre of everyone’s talk once more over his prices.
One of the first diners at the new eatery revealed it cost £1,182 for a family meal – including four redbulls for £44 and a 24ct-gold steak for £790.
You think that’s crazy? The steak-cooking star is now rumoured to be worth £38million thanks to his online fame and has a host of top celebrity pals.
Drone-delivered
You just can’t get the staff these days – or so that seems to be the case for Salt Bae, who has been spotted using DRONES to deliver his meat.
The star took to his Instagram while working at his restaurant in Beverley Hills to show off how his steaks are brought to the kitchen.
A white drone could be seen shuttling vegetables and meat back and forth from the kitchen, before overseeing the cooking process on the grill.
“My new exclusive chef,” Salt Bae captioned the video of him ordering the drone around. We’re wondering if it will get any of the tips.
Nusr-Et London diners tip him with a £2,000 box of cigars
Turkish chef Nusret Gökçe – who is better known as meme sensation Salt Bae for the way he sprinkles seasoning on his pricey meat – recently opened his Nusr-Et Steakhouse in Knightsbridge to mixed reviews.
But the global sensation was left stunned when two young entrepreneurs were so impressed by his gold steak they gave him a tip – a £2000 personalised box of cigars.
Brothers Ollie and Toby Brittan, who own Whites Beaconsfield, the UK’s leading provider of non-peroxide natural teeth whitening products, booked the posh meal to celebrate the successful launch of their new teeth whitening toothpaste.
They ordered the famous gold-wrapped tomahawk steak which costs £630 and £100 burgers and were left with a whopping bill of nearly £2,000 after all their drinks and side orders.
But the brothers were so impressed with the food and the grand theatrics of Salt Bae as he served the steak that they gifted him a £2k box of cigars.
Inside Dani Dyer’s date with Jarrod Bowen to Nusr-Et Steakhouse
LOVE Island star Dani Dyer and her new man Jarrod Bowen enjoyed a luxury date night to Salt Bae's Nusr-Et Steakhouse this week.
The new couple – who struck up a friendship earlier this year – both posted from inside the restaurant before deleting their snaps simultaneously.
Dani, 25, has been dating the £18million West Ham winger, who was spotted leaving her home after spending the night earlier this month.
The pair have grown increasingly close in recent weeks and have spent more time together, with the match given approval by her dad Danny – a diehard Hammers fan.
The new couple enjoyed a fancy date night to luxury restaurant Nusr-Et, which open in London's Knightsbridge last month.
- Louis Allwood
Fool’s gold
A STEAKHOUSE is going head-to-head with Salt Bae’s London restaurant by also offering diners gold-covered steaks – but for £500 LESS.
Nusret Gökçe, who became an internet sensation as Salt Bae, recently opened his 15th restaurant in Knightsbridge where you might catch him tossing seasoning over £630 steaks in the flesh.
The Turkish butcher now has a global restaurant empire thanks to his theatrical steak presentation – immortalised in a 2017 video watched over 17 million times.
But Brits hoping to visit for dinner might be better advised to book a flight to the eatery in Turkey instead – as the trip would be cheaper.
One receipt recently posted on Twitter came to £1,812.40 – just under the average UK monthly salary.
- Louis Allwood
Restaurant ‘deletes’ bad reviews and boasts 5 star ratings
SALT Bae’s London restaurant has been accused of “deleting” bad reviews while boasting about its five star ratings – despite fury over their “rip-off” prices.
The upmarket eatery appears to have erased comments criticising the price of food at the central London restaurant.
According to My London, a “slurry of reviews appearing to criticise the restaurant when it first opened” have suddenly “disappeared”.
The diner now boasts a 4.8 rating on Google, despite dozens of fuming customers hitting out at its prices.
The menu came under fire over the price of its steaks after one customer was left with an eye-watering £37,000 bill.
A critic accused Turkish-born internet icon Nusret Gökçe of “taking the p**s” after he paid £850 for the “golden tomahawk”.
- Louis Allwood
Danielle Lloyd admits £100 gold-wrapped burger was worth it
The mum-to-be, 37, opened up about her trip to the steak house in Knightsbridge in her latest column for OK! magazine.
Danielle announced the happy news that she was pregnant with her fifth child back in May and decided to enjoy date night with husband Michael O'Neil before the baby arrives.
The former glamour model is mum to three boys with ex Jamie O'Hara and shares her fourth son with Michael.
She confessed that she hadn't been feeling up to leaving the house because she's pregnant, but decided to make the effort over the weekend.
Danielle wrote: "But I thought, 'Come on, let’s spend some time together before the baby comes.'
"So, I got dressed up and we went on a date! We decided to have dinner at Salt Bae’s restaurant Nusr-Et in Knightsbridge.
"It was so good, but it was really expensive. It was all about the experience, really!"
- Louis Allwood
ZERO people turn up after calling for waiters and chefs to bring in resume
ZERO people turned up to hand in their resume at Salt Bae's London restaurant today after the flash chef put out an open call to waiters and waitresses to apply for jobs.
Nusret Gökçe, who is best known as internet sensation 'Salt Bae', flung open the doors of his new Knightsbridge steakhouse, Nusr-et for a hiring spree.
But despite expecting queues around the corner, The Sun can reveal not a single person turned up to give in their CV.
Salt Bae – who charges £630 for a golden tomahawk steak – put out the call to arms for new staff last night.
He urged aspiring chefs, waiters, waitresses and bar staff to come forward and apply for work at his latest restaurant in London by giving in their resume.
- Louis Allwood
Inside Salt Bae’s jaw-dropping Nusr-et London menu
WEALTHY diners have flocked to try Salt Bae's jaw-dropping Nusr-et London menu which includes a £100 gold-covered burger, a £50 cappuccino and £18 onion flower.
A bill from Nusr-Et Steakhouse in the capital shows one hungry diner who paid out a whopping £1,812.40 in total.
The receipt shows the customer bought a single 'golden burger', which cost £100, a £23 salad, two prawn tempura rolls costing £60, and a £10 corn on the cob.
The priciest item is a £630 'giant tomahawk' steak, which again is wrapped in a 24-carat gold leaf.
However, even smaller items come with a hefty price tag – an onion flower costs £18, while a Coke is £9 and a Red Bull is £11.
The whopping bill included a 15 per-cent service charge of £236.40.
- Louis Allwood
Rio Ferdinand’s son Cree gets a special gift at restaurant
KATE and Rio Ferdinand's son Cree was given a special gift from Turkish restaurant owner Salt Bae on a family visit to his posh new London eatery.
The much-memed chef – real name Nusret Gökçe – was seen in his familiar circular shades and tight white top as he presented the tot with a bib emblazoned with his own image.
Kate was all smiles with her husband Rio inside the newly opened Nusr-et in swanky Knightsbridge.
She wrote on Instagram: "Fabulous afternoon with the family."
- Louis Allwood
Salt Bae’s food ‘served COLD’ and branded ‘pub grub’ in scathing reviews
SALT Bae's "ridiculous" London restaurant has been blasted for serving "cold food" and "pub grub" in scathing online reviews.
Brutal reviews have questioned its value for money, with raging diners dubbing it a "rip off" and "not up to standard".
A Trip Adviser reviewer – who went to the restaurant with three others last Friday – said: "At the start they couldn’t find our reservation. After all, they offered us a table upstairs. We agreed.
"Apparently 'upstairs' is actually outside. I wasn’t happy seating outside, as it was really cold.
"A waiter re-assured us that it’s going to be nice and warm and turned two heaters on.
"Ten minutes later a manager came and turned heaters off and told us they don’t have a license to use gas heaters."
- Louis Allwood
Restaurant ‘deletes’ bad reviews and boasts 5 star ratings
SALT Bae's London restaurant has been accused of "deleting" bad reviews while boasting about its five star ratings – despite fury over their "rip-off" prices.
The upmarket eatery appears to have erased comments criticising the price of food at the central London restaurant.
According to My London, a "slurry of reviews appearing to criticise the restaurant when it first opened" have suddenly "disappeared".
The diner now boasts a 4.8 rating on Google, despite dozens of fuming customers hitting out at its prices.
The menu came under fire over the price of its steaks after one customer was left with an eye-watering £37,000 bill.
A critic accused Turkish-born internet icon Nusret Gökçe of "taking the p**s" after he paid £850 for the "golden tomahawk".
- Louis Allwood
Nusr-et charges whopping £5,000 for service
A DINER at Salt Bae's London restaurant was slapped with a mammoth £5,000 service charge after racking up a bill totalling more than the UK's average salary.
After splashing out £37,023.10 at the Nusr-et venue in Knightsbridge, the bill-payer shared a snap of the eye-watering receipt and accused Turkish-born internet icon Nusret Gökçe of "taking the p**s".
The critic forked out £850 for the Golden Tomahawk, as well as £400 for 16 Baklavas, £14 for sautéed broccoli and £12 for a side of mashed potato.
On top of that, they paid £9,100 for a vintage 1996 bottle of Petrus, and £19,900 for two bottles of 2003 Petrus.
But to add salt to the wound, the diner was then stung with a 15 per cent service charge of £4,829.10
After eating at the restaurant last Friday, the receipt was screenshotted from Snapchat and shared to Reddit with the caption: "That's just taking the p**s."
- Louis Allwood
Salt Bae forced to pay $230,000 to ex-waiters ‘for conning them out of tips’ & FIRING them
SALT Bae has been forced to pay ex-staff members $230,000 after being accused of conning them out of tips and firing them when they complained.
The chef turned internet star Nusret Gökçe reportedly kept his servers in the dark about how much they collected in gratuity payments and "retained" them for himself.
The Turkish born-butcher was served with a lawsuit by four ex-servers who worked for him at his Manhattan restaurant, Nurs-Et, in 2019.
The men alleged that Gökçe pooled tips among unentitled staff and shaved 3 per cent off the total amount of tips.
"Customers reasonably believed 100 percent of the gratuity was being remitted to the waiters and other serving staff," one of the sacked staff members said at the time.
- Louis Allwood
Who is Salt Bae?
Salt Bae was a viral internet meme which blew up at the start of 2017.
The man behind the meme is a Turkish chef and restaurant owner called Nusret Gökçe.The video of him lovingly preparing an Ottoman steak, posted on January 7, 2017, has to date garnered more than 16 million views.
His strangely sensual meat videos soon evolved into a series of viral memes, with viewers taking particular delight in the flamboyant way Nusret sprinkled a handful of salt crystals at the end of the clip.
Nusret became a celebrity in his own right, cooking for celebrities like David Beckham, Leonardo DiCaprio, and DJ Khaled.
- Louis Allwood
How did Nur-Et become famous?
Gökçe became famous from a series of viral Internet videos and memes.
His fame came from a viral video, “Ottoman Steak”, posted on 7 January 2017.
The video shows him cutting meat and sprinkling salt on it in a “suavely” way.
The video received more than 10 million views on Instagram, and it was at that moment her was nicknamed “Salt Bae” because of his certain way of salting meat.
- Louis Allwood
What is Nusret’s net worth?
Gökçe opened his first Nusr-Et steakhouse in Istanbul in 2010.
The brand grew, and he opened restaurants across the Middle East, including in Ankara, Doha and Dubai.It was then that Gökçe shot to viral internet fame – and it allowed him to open a total of 13 restaurants within the year, expanding into America and Greece.
In 2021, he opened the first London Branch of the chain in the posh area of Knightsbridge, bringing the number of restaurants worldwide to an impressive 15.
However, a meal at one of his establishments will cost you!
Due to the success of the chain (and the high prices), it’s now estimated that Salt Bae’s net worth is around $60million (£46.7m). - Louis Allwood
Where are Salt Bae’s restaurants?
Nusret is now the co-owner of steakhouse chain Nusr-Et (named after himself).
According to Turkish media, its a million-dollar empire with 400 employees.
Nusr-et’s restaurant locations are spread across the globe.You can find them in:
- Ankara
- Bodrum
- Marmaris
- Istanbul
- Dubai
- Abu Dhabi
- Doha
- Jeddah
- Miami
- New York
- Mykonos
- Boston
- Dallas
- Beverly Hills
- London
Is Nusret married and does he have kids?
Nusret, aka Salt Bae, has kept his relationship status private since he shot to fame back in 2017.
He has, however, shared that he has a staggering nine children.
He posted a pic with all nine of his brood back in 2017, captioning the snap:“The man who does not spend time with his family is not a real man.”
None of their names are publicly known.
Salt Bae is HIRING: Nusr-et London hunts for ‘waiters, bartenders and toilet attendants’
SALT Bae has been hosting a three-day long open day in an attempt to track down new employees for his lavish London restaurant.
Flamboyant Turkish chef Nusret Gökçe, who is best known as internet sensation ‘Salt Bae’, is opening the doors of his Knightsbridge restaurant for a hiring spree.
The internet sensation recently opened his 15th restaurant in the capital, Nusr-et, which has attracted the rich and famous.
But now he is asking for waiters, runners, bartenders and many other job titles to come forward to work for him.
Bar backs, kitchen porters and toilet attendants are also desired to work at the top flight restaurant.
It is unclear how much anyone would get paid working for the Turkish chef, but he is asking those interested to attend the restaurant today.
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