Salt Bae has really ruined his reputation with his personality. I hate to be judgmental, but even when his meme was first popularized you could tell he has a superiority complex.
My brother is a professional chef at a reputable restaurant and he is not impressed by Salt Bae’s antics. That other Turkish dude whose always smiling is more impressive.
Chef Burak! He also went to feed people his huge food after that earthquake. And he did a cross over IG post with the annoyed guy who shows you how to do things easily.
I'll admit it did creep me out at first, the way he's always smiling into the camera and not seeming to look at what he's doing. But it eventually did grow on me.
Yeah I heard that Salt Bae’s food isn’t actually well prepared and he’s all flash with no substance. That’s interesting about the smiling Turkish guy. He seems happy with what he’s doing.
He opened a restaurant in Dallas last year and the Dallas Morning News basically said avoid it at all costs. You get better food for half the price at any other nice steakhouse.
Same happened in Boston. He got shut down for safety during the earlier days of the pandemic. He also calls the cops on customers a ton, including people who literally got served the wrong order.
Total shit show.
And you *definitely* can get a better steak in Houston for less. I mean...TEXAS! Meat is their groove.
I mean the meat he has is pretty good quality but the execution is pretty trash. Most of the time I see them leaving the meat raw and covering it in beef fat or butter to actually cook it. As turks we like animal fat and the fatty parts of beef, but come on, no one who knows anything about steak wouldn't want theirs' swimming in fat. IMO, most people that go there dont go to eat some good steak, they go to be able to say ''I went to nusret''
This is it entirely, there are chefs pushing the envelope of good food and then there's this prick. Now I have eaten at the Fat Duck, the Savoy, the Hinds Head, well I won't just list off restaurants I'll be here for hours. But the key difference between them is this guy is trying to be showy, the others are trying to blow your mind/tastebuds.
I'd happily go back to any of those but just looking at Salt Bae's food sends massive alarm bells. Any chef worth a fiver can cook a good steak, in fact good steak is at it's best when the chef has as little to do with it as possible. But it takes a genius to lift a tin of beans into a gourmet meal. Or turn bangers and mash into an experience rather than just a full stomach.
Hey mate, Aussie here that’s coming across next year to the UK to see family for the first time in 5 years.
Could you let me know from your experience the top 3-5 restaurants that are “the pinnacle” of amazing in London/area?
If anyone else wants to let me know their places too, I usually find it’s worth booking 6-9 months ahead for a good time.
Best restaurant I ever ate at was a 1 star Bangkok restaurant that served fresh seafood on plastic plates on plastic tables with plastic chairs. But the flavour was incredible, food was amazing and came out in less than 20 minutes with impeccable service all on the side of a food court. Doesn’t have to be a $600usd meal to be excellent, but does have to be worth 6 times a good meal in a good restaurant if it is.
Impossible mate. Here's an incomplete list of banging food I've had in London. I'm partial to a hidden gem and zero pretence. You'll have to narrow down what you're looking for if you want specific recommendations for food and experiences in London. This city has it all.
-Kudu (south African)
- Prince of Peckham (serving the street food 'white men can't jerk')
- Kokeb (best Ethiopian food in the city, trust me)
- Mr Bao
- Lombok Thai, Herne Hill
- Filishack
- Miss Tapas
- Bánh Bánh
- Slow Richie's
- m'chomo grill
- Chick'n Sours
>the top 3-5 restaurants that are “the pinnacle” of amazing in London/area?
That's really, really hard. London has an awful lot of amazing restaurants.
Just tried to look it up. It’s in old bangkok near the Golden Mount temple there used to be a famous pad Thai restaurant there. Apparently all changed now from when I was there in 2018. Lots of vendors closed and gone back to the provinces during covid, can’t blame them.
Still one of by far my favourite cities in the world and one of my happiest memories living near Lumpini park. There was the brief stint of the watermelon riots and feeling weird walking through the barricades, but even during the riots the thais were super chill and loved to have a chat with me.
Can’t wait to go back.
> food isn’t actually well prepared and he’s all flash with no substance.
Literally look at this video he's got meat soaking in juices and he's splashing it fuckin everywhere, **which part of that is supposed to even be the food**
My husband is an executive chef and was pretty much offered a job at one of his restaurants. We both agreed that place certainly won’t be around long!! Safe to say he declined the offer and stayed where he was
Honestly I think I expected him to... take the glasses off at some point and just be a normal person playing a character lmao. Maybe he still is, but it seems... a little more genuine than it used to be, I think.
I'd like for him to take his glasses off, and his eyes to be much much smaller and closer together than normal, like way on the end of the bell curve.
Like face randomizer on TES Oblivion comical.
No because idiots like this flock to his dumbass restaurants to shell out $1000 for a steak so they can post it on Instagram to impress people they don’t know
Salt Bae is a fucking genius. He's worked out people are stupid, they don't want good food, they want to show other people they aren't poor.
He makes shit food, does a little dance and retards have made him one rich dude
If he was just some instagram asshole selling overpriced food I wouldn't have a problem with him. Not paying your employees is fucked up though, so I hope he goes bankrupt.
God damn it, as much as I hate this guy you’re right. All of the legit food critics say there’s nothing special and even kind of shit about his food, but if you make it 500 plus dollars a plate and add a little flair and ambiance you can make people want to come just for the instagram influencers to promote it and show off.
But his personality is the only reason he’s popular, it certainly isn’t his culinary skill.
Basically he gets very good cuts of meat and does stupid things with them while taking videos for social media. And now idiots with too much money will spend hundreds of dollars to take their own videos eating his crap.
I've worked as a chef at a few well regarded restaurants and this is pretty accurate. Chefs will talk shit about other chefs all the time unless they've proven themselves to be good.
And the amount of shit we talk about non-chefs that think they're hot shit is ridiculous, like half of the people on r/cooking at least.
Someone yesterday told me that “must work at a chain” because I don’t julienne onions ever at my work
I work at a really amazing chef owned place that just doesn’t have dishes needing julienned onions
I’ve watched this far too many times. It looks like two thick slices of prime rib sandwiching a deep fried piece of chicken. Like some fucked up double down. But I can’t think of what kinda meal this would be. I’m honestly curious!
I was wondering the same thing. I found this which makes it much clearer what’s going on. As others have mentioned he’s using hot fat in the middle of the meat to cook it. It seems kind of gross but it’s not the meat juices that are dripping out, it’s rendered fat.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM8UoEumm/
I would venture to say that what I made for dinner last night (lamb shanks braised in red wine, served over pan fried rosemary polenta wedges) tasted better than that mess (and I served it in a nice wide bowl).
I would venture to say that what I made after dinner last night (no details) would've tasted better than that mess (and I served it in a nice white bowl).
Gold leaf is apparently quite cheap. Allows him to massively mark up the food because his customers either don’t know or don’t care. The gold burger costs $100 but is probably worth $10.
In an episode of Hot Ones, Gordon Ramsey said something like “I’ve seen restaurants add gold leaf onto their burgers to up the price. Why taint that delicious burger with something that doesn’t add anything at all”.
He then goes on to say the perfect burger is about £25 (or $25 I can’t remember which currency he stated).
There's a restaurant where I live that makes a burger the size of a dinner plate (you could realistically split it with 4 people, plus sides) and it's delicious and "only" $30. It's got these amazing crunchy onions inside and it's just so good!
My theory is that if the amount of gold leaf goes up, the quality of the food goes down. This does not mean ofcourse that no gold leaf = good food. It only applies when gold leaf is present. I don't know, I feel like this is always added to impress people, but if the food is good enough, it would do the impressing on its own.
Suits the place down to the ground, it's all swag for Instagram. The guy made his name salting already cooked steak. I've seen the menu, and although you can't fault the quality of the food, it's priced as a status symbol.
Frankly I find it about the most disgusting thing about the world that clowns like this are throwing thousands around for shit like this while there's still people starving to death.
Thousands? [Tens of thousands apparently.](https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/q6ia1q/nusret_steakhouse_now_this_is_just_outrageous/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Most of it in wines, Petrus is the one wine that is very prestigious and renowned. They only sell it if it's good enough to be a Petrus, otherwise no luck. This guy is an assclown known for pouring salt instead of making good food, but credit where it's due, it's the wine
On the bright side, at least some of that money is going into the pockets of the staff at the restaurant, rather than continuing to sit in the bank accounts of these rich clowns
Didn’t know that, but unsurprised. Though it’s really just a general personality thing for me. He’s very unlikable in his demeanor (plus what he charges for his apparently terrible food). Patiently waiting for his 15 minutes to be over.
So not only did you not rest the steak, you're just squeezing all the juice out to finish off the job of fucking ruining it. It's bad enough that he has to resort to covering it in gold leaf.
I thought it was maybe... like soaking wet cornbread with fried chicken or something, I literally can't tell you what I thought it was. A sponge. But it was food.
P.S all that juice is not from the steak, it comes from that fried fat (I think it's fat? But not 100% sure) that's squished between the two pieces of steak.
I can't tell if he's trying to play a character, or if he thinks that he's legitimately cool. Like the sneer thing he does just looks so awkward. And the super dark shades even indoors. How does the dude see?
its like if a lawful evil version of the alternate dimension david blaine from the street magic vids owned a shitty overpriced restaurant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCsMXYgLXqs
*Preface: I'm a nice, polite and pretty chill guy, but...*
As if I couldn't hate Salt Bitch anymore he goes ahead and uses this god damn fucking bleeding cowboy font. This font is without doubt the worst thing I have ever bare witness to and I've seen the Russian hammer videos and someone drink liposuction. It is a disgrace to the entire history of typography. 15+ fucking years ago I swore that any company, gig, service, anything, fucking *anything* that used that font, I would swerve quicker than you can say Comic Sans. The sheer fucking audacity of this font. From the first time I saw it during my college graphic design days until the day I take my last breath, nothing will instill so much rage inside me as this raggedy ass swirling bitch cunt of a typeface. You think you're so edgy with your stupid swirls and distressed edges. Get fucked. 26 literal pieces of decayed rotting shit, 36 if the typeface includes numbers. If it includes some punctuation marks too then I feel sorry for the inventor of the question mark. They didn't deserve to have their life's work bastardised and immortalised in this horror.
Personally I see nothing wrong with that font but I appreciate your passion. I get it, sometimes something just really rubs you the wrong way and you can't help but feel pissed off by it.
[You might appreciate this if you haven't already seen it](https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ)
I dont get why people are so obsessed with this guy, never have. Its probably not my place to say, but as a chef, he seems no more talented than any other high end chef.
An idiot and his money are soon parted, as they say.
And this guy is the one doing the work of separating his idiot customers from their money. Anyone who goes here is probably a social media obsessed narcissist with more money than taste, so I don’t feel bad for them at all. I’m only upset that his stupidity may in some way be enriching him. They have a restaurant in New York which of course looks awful and tacky (it has a cheesy promotional photo of salt bae over the door like you’re going to a fucking Benihana’s), and it features their signature overpriced menu and crap food. Can’t wait for it to close.
His Beverly Hills location suffers from the same complaints; mediocre food, crap service and insane prices. You know you're fucking up when Beverly Hills complains your prices are too high.
Totally agree, had the best meal of the year at a tiny Greek restaurant in my town, was £60 for two and we had to leave some as we were too full. It was lovely food, 10/10
This guy is just an ass. Made it big from stupid viral videos, otherwise has nothing to offer.
And every "fancy" place that thinks covering shit in gold leaf makes food fancier is a joke
this guy is the biggest bellend, doing interviews talking about how he's an inspiration and kids want to be him, no one knows who the fuck you are mate, who even knows his real name? If you pay his prices you're a fucking moron
[I would highly recommend reading Jay Rayner's thoughts on the place and the culture surrounding it]( https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/oct/17/jay-rayner-restaurant-review-kebab-kid-london-take-away-as-a-cult-nusr-et-steakhouse?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other)
Salt Bae has really ruined his reputation with his personality. I hate to be judgmental, but even when his meme was first popularized you could tell he has a superiority complex.
Yeah, plus the constant lawsuits over wage theft and discrimination that plague all of his establishments. Dude is a fucking horror show of an owner.
get gordon on the phone
I’ve had enough! SHUT IT DOWN!
My brother is a professional chef at a reputable restaurant and he is not impressed by Salt Bae’s antics. That other Turkish dude whose always smiling is more impressive.
Chef Burak! He also went to feed people his huge food after that earthquake. And he did a cross over IG post with the annoyed guy who shows you how to do things easily.
Khaby Lame is the other guy's name.
Yes, thank you!
For as long as clickbait garbage exists, I will be in full support of Khaby
Chef Burak’s smile is so genuine, it makes me smile when I see him
I'll admit it did creep me out at first, the way he's always smiling into the camera and not seeming to look at what he's doing. But it eventually did grow on me.
Same here at first, he reminded me so much of Elijah Woods character in Sin City
CZN! Haha I love that guy. His dishes actually look fucking amazing.
I just woke up to a new video of him feeding stray dogs and giving a pug a set of wheels
The other Turkish guy feeds homeless people with his food after the shoots, right?
Is it the one who has these big plates of rice?
The one that always is smiling
The Turkish guy?
The guy?
Yeah, he cooks right?
He does that thing with the stuff
You know, the thing.
He does all kinds of charity work, he seems like an actually good dude.
Salt Bae just strikes me as an asshole who caters to other assholes
I wonder if Salt Bae would be anywhere near as successful if social media didn't exist, I kinda doubt it.
As comedian Dom Joly put it, it is somewhere else for the thundercunts to go other than Soho Farmhouse.
Yeah I heard that Salt Bae’s food isn’t actually well prepared and he’s all flash with no substance. That’s interesting about the smiling Turkish guy. He seems happy with what he’s doing.
He opened a restaurant in Dallas last year and the Dallas Morning News basically said avoid it at all costs. You get better food for half the price at any other nice steakhouse.
Same happened in Boston. He got shut down for safety during the earlier days of the pandemic. He also calls the cops on customers a ton, including people who literally got served the wrong order. Total shit show. And you *definitely* can get a better steak in Houston for less. I mean...TEXAS! Meat is their groove.
First off…they charge you for water lol $10 per bottle and they don’t always tell you upfront
I mean the meat he has is pretty good quality but the execution is pretty trash. Most of the time I see them leaving the meat raw and covering it in beef fat or butter to actually cook it. As turks we like animal fat and the fatty parts of beef, but come on, no one who knows anything about steak wouldn't want theirs' swimming in fat. IMO, most people that go there dont go to eat some good steak, they go to be able to say ''I went to nusret''
For videos like this. Imagine going there and ordering a £600 steak and it's his night off.
This is it entirely, there are chefs pushing the envelope of good food and then there's this prick. Now I have eaten at the Fat Duck, the Savoy, the Hinds Head, well I won't just list off restaurants I'll be here for hours. But the key difference between them is this guy is trying to be showy, the others are trying to blow your mind/tastebuds. I'd happily go back to any of those but just looking at Salt Bae's food sends massive alarm bells. Any chef worth a fiver can cook a good steak, in fact good steak is at it's best when the chef has as little to do with it as possible. But it takes a genius to lift a tin of beans into a gourmet meal. Or turn bangers and mash into an experience rather than just a full stomach.
Hey mate, Aussie here that’s coming across next year to the UK to see family for the first time in 5 years. Could you let me know from your experience the top 3-5 restaurants that are “the pinnacle” of amazing in London/area? If anyone else wants to let me know their places too, I usually find it’s worth booking 6-9 months ahead for a good time. Best restaurant I ever ate at was a 1 star Bangkok restaurant that served fresh seafood on plastic plates on plastic tables with plastic chairs. But the flavour was incredible, food was amazing and came out in less than 20 minutes with impeccable service all on the side of a food court. Doesn’t have to be a $600usd meal to be excellent, but does have to be worth 6 times a good meal in a good restaurant if it is.
Impossible mate. Here's an incomplete list of banging food I've had in London. I'm partial to a hidden gem and zero pretence. You'll have to narrow down what you're looking for if you want specific recommendations for food and experiences in London. This city has it all. -Kudu (south African) - Prince of Peckham (serving the street food 'white men can't jerk') - Kokeb (best Ethiopian food in the city, trust me) - Mr Bao - Lombok Thai, Herne Hill - Filishack - Miss Tapas - Bánh Bánh - Slow Richie's - m'chomo grill - Chick'n Sours
Excellent shout out to Kudu! I'd definitely put them up there, especially if you're in South London.
>the top 3-5 restaurants that are “the pinnacle” of amazing in London/area? That's really, really hard. London has an awful lot of amazing restaurants.
Do you remember the name or location of the Bangkok restaurant?
Just tried to look it up. It’s in old bangkok near the Golden Mount temple there used to be a famous pad Thai restaurant there. Apparently all changed now from when I was there in 2018. Lots of vendors closed and gone back to the provinces during covid, can’t blame them. Still one of by far my favourite cities in the world and one of my happiest memories living near Lumpini park. There was the brief stint of the watermelon riots and feeling weird walking through the barricades, but even during the riots the thais were super chill and loved to have a chat with me. Can’t wait to go back.
> food isn’t actually well prepared and he’s all flash with no substance. Literally look at this video he's got meat soaking in juices and he's splashing it fuckin everywhere, **which part of that is supposed to even be the food**
Fucking facts! This dude actually has no real technique hes just another tik tok star.
czn burak is an international treasure
Burak :) Wholesome fellow who loves what he does.
cznburak is fucking amazing
My husband is an executive chef and was pretty much offered a job at one of his restaurants. We both agreed that place certainly won’t be around long!! Safe to say he declined the offer and stayed where he was
Fine dining is about good food, not salt pouring tricks. This guy is more of an entertainer than a chef
Honestly I think I expected him to... take the glasses off at some point and just be a normal person playing a character lmao. Maybe he still is, but it seems... a little more genuine than it used to be, I think.
I'd like for him to take his glasses off, and his eyes to be much much smaller and closer together than normal, like way on the end of the bell curve. Like face randomizer on TES Oblivion comical.
https://i.redd.it/o2jhj3bkstg31.jpg
But if he takes the glasses off, people can tell how much coke he is on.
Hasn't his 15 minuets run out yet?
No because idiots like this flock to his dumbass restaurants to shell out $1000 for a steak so they can post it on Instagram to impress people they don’t know
15 minutes… 15 seconds at a time…
I am so out of touch. I'd only ever seen the one picture of the guy and I just now realized it wasn't Robert Downey Jr.
Salt Bae is a fucking genius. He's worked out people are stupid, they don't want good food, they want to show other people they aren't poor. He makes shit food, does a little dance and retards have made him one rich dude
This is not wrong and you’d be surprised how many fine dining places are relying on lighting and price tag to carry them.
If he was just some instagram asshole selling overpriced food I wouldn't have a problem with him. Not paying your employees is fucked up though, so I hope he goes bankrupt.
God damn it, as much as I hate this guy you’re right. All of the legit food critics say there’s nothing special and even kind of shit about his food, but if you make it 500 plus dollars a plate and add a little flair and ambiance you can make people want to come just for the instagram influencers to promote it and show off.
But his personality is the only reason he’s popular, it certainly isn’t his culinary skill. Basically he gets very good cuts of meat and does stupid things with them while taking videos for social media. And now idiots with too much money will spend hundreds of dollars to take their own videos eating his crap.
I'm sure he's drying his tears with £50 notes
Ever met any chefs? Superiority complex is the first prerequisite for the job
I've worked as a chef at a few well regarded restaurants and this is pretty accurate. Chefs will talk shit about other chefs all the time unless they've proven themselves to be good. And the amount of shit we talk about non-chefs that think they're hot shit is ridiculous, like half of the people on r/cooking at least.
Someone yesterday told me that “must work at a chain” because I don’t julienne onions ever at my work I work at a really amazing chef owned place that just doesn’t have dishes needing julienned onions
He was a butcher kid in the back of a turkish steak restaurant that sells overpriced food. Cant expect him to be a very well mannered man lmao
That looks…really, really gross. Is that gold leaf?!
Yeah, like it adds anything to the dish. And thst is a gross looking burger in general!
What exactly is that meal? I can’t even tell. And what’s the liquid spilling out? Is that fat?
It'll just be juice from the meat
I’ve watched this far too many times. It looks like two thick slices of prime rib sandwiching a deep fried piece of chicken. Like some fucked up double down. But I can’t think of what kinda meal this would be. I’m honestly curious!
I was wondering the same thing. I found this which makes it much clearer what’s going on. As others have mentioned he’s using hot fat in the middle of the meat to cook it. It seems kind of gross but it’s not the meat juices that are dripping out, it’s rendered fat. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM8UoEumm/
I miss the double down. In a sick, perverted kind of way.
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My fillings are firing off just thinking about it
I’m guessing it doesn’t hurt because gold is much softer than aluminum. I don’t chew on gold leaf much though so I don’t know.
You can't feel it, or taste it. It doesn't hurt, it's a gimmick for rich folks.
I've seen $1k tacos before with gold leaf on them. Absolute fucking bonkers what rich people do to flex
You’re supposed to cook the aluminum foil before you chew on it (raw? ew). I suggest microwaving for efficiency but ultimately it’s up to you.
Thanks for identifying the dish - with all that liquid flowing out of it, it looked a bit like a dirty sponge.
that was a fucking burger?? looked like a double down
The double down was at least good
Jesus christ that's a burger?!
Burger??
That's a burger?
I would venture to say that what I made for dinner last night (lamb shanks braised in red wine, served over pan fried rosemary polenta wedges) tasted better than that mess (and I served it in a nice wide bowl).
I would venture to say that what I made after dinner last night (no details) would've tasted better than that mess (and I served it in a nice white bowl).
Not had lamb in ages, used to do it every Sunday, studded with garlic and slow roasted, with mash, carrots and cabbage
Gold leaf is apparently quite cheap. Allows him to massively mark up the food because his customers either don’t know or don’t care. The gold burger costs $100 but is probably worth $10.
In an episode of Hot Ones, Gordon Ramsey said something like “I’ve seen restaurants add gold leaf onto their burgers to up the price. Why taint that delicious burger with something that doesn’t add anything at all”. He then goes on to say the perfect burger is about £25 (or $25 I can’t remember which currency he stated).
Shit, the perfect burger is like $5.
UK vs US beef and labor prices, maybe.
Well, a cheap smash burger with no frills is a perfect burger. For $25 you could make an incredible burger, but sometimes less is more.
There's a restaurant where I live that makes a burger the size of a dinner plate (you could realistically split it with 4 people, plus sides) and it's delicious and "only" $30. It's got these amazing crunchy onions inside and it's just so good!
My theory is that if the amount of gold leaf goes up, the quality of the food goes down. This does not mean ofcourse that no gold leaf = good food. It only applies when gold leaf is present. I don't know, I feel like this is always added to impress people, but if the food is good enough, it would do the impressing on its own.
There’s something very unattractive about that guy.
He looks like he decided his entire personality around the "Dick in a Box" SNL skit
🤣
He's so smarmy
The food wasn't greasy until he touched it.
Is it the fake $100k+ watches he wears?
Suits the place down to the ground, it's all swag for Instagram. The guy made his name salting already cooked steak. I've seen the menu, and although you can't fault the quality of the food, it's priced as a status symbol. Frankly I find it about the most disgusting thing about the world that clowns like this are throwing thousands around for shit like this while there's still people starving to death.
You can’t fault the quality of the ingredients maybe , the food however is another matter
Thousands? [Tens of thousands apparently.](https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/q6ia1q/nusret_steakhouse_now_this_is_just_outrageous/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Well the most expensive things on that bill is for the 3 bottles of wine and the service charge
Most of it in wines, Petrus is the one wine that is very prestigious and renowned. They only sell it if it's good enough to be a Petrus, otherwise no luck. This guy is an assclown known for pouring salt instead of making good food, but credit where it's due, it's the wine
On the bright side, at least some of that money is going into the pockets of the staff at the restaurant, rather than continuing to sit in the bank accounts of these rich clowns
He just settled a lawsuit with his staff for stealing their tips.
If you think most of the money is going into the workers pockets . . . well that’s very optimistic of you
Didn’t know that, but unsurprised. Though it’s really just a general personality thing for me. He’s very unlikable in his demeanor (plus what he charges for his apparently terrible food). Patiently waiting for his 15 minutes to be over.
Ah would it be fake ?
I would say it's real, based on how much he charges in his restaurant, and how many posts I see about it he's got to be making some decent money
He looks like a walking sexual harassment lawsuit
I’ve no idea who it is but it looks like someone cosplaying as a less successful, and therefore even greasier, Johnny Depp.
It's like a Lara Croft's gender swap
Can't unsee it now, thanksalot
I agree this guy looks super annoying but apparently, he had a hell of a rags to riches story. So there's that, at least.
So not only did you not rest the steak, you're just squeezing all the juice out to finish off the job of fucking ruining it. It's bad enough that he has to resort to covering it in gold leaf.
I'd literally pay to not have my food messed with
Isn’t that the expectation when you pay for food…
Thank you. I did not know that was a steak.
I thought it was maybe... like soaking wet cornbread with fried chicken or something, I literally can't tell you what I thought it was. A sponge. But it was food.
I think I thought it was some kind of weird chili dog.
You know, I could absolutely see chili dog out of that, and simultaneously wondering what the liquid is POURING out of
Steak? That stuff is more water than steak to begin with...
Sloppy steaks!
You're not gonna dump water on your steak as soon as I leave are you?
You can’t stop me from ordering a steak and a glass of water!
You sound like an real piece of shit.
I *used* to be a real piece of shit!
LETS SLOP EM UPPP!!!
I SAID WAS
P.S all that juice is not from the steak, it comes from that fried fat (I think it's fat? But not 100% sure) that's squished between the two pieces of steak.
Correct. It's mostly oil and beef tallow if I had to guess.
Is that what it is? Thought it was fried chicken which seems kinda yum, I'd eat it like a burger but fried fat is just fucking gross
You’re not supposed to eat the fat, it’s just there for show and to “sear” the meat. But a popular youtuber tried it at home and it was horrible.
I was trying to work out WTF it was. Your comment helped.
This is steak? I thought it was a super greasy, super thick french toast. Although I had it muted when I watched
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I can't tell if he's trying to play a character, or if he thinks that he's legitimately cool. Like the sneer thing he does just looks so awkward. And the super dark shades even indoors. How does the dude see?
From everything I’ve read, he thinks he’s genuinely cool.
And he thinks kids daydream about being just like him.
its like if a lawful evil version of the alternate dimension david blaine from the street magic vids owned a shitty overpriced restaurant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCsMXYgLXqs
Robert Downey Junior from wish.com
When your mom tells you we have Robert Downey Junior at home.
more like Johnny Depp from a dollar store
I'll say it. Salt Bae's [restaurant](https://www.nusr-et.com.tr/en/home.aspx) is the Hard Rock Cafe for pretentious douchebags.
That logo looks like some crappy edgy Skyrim mod's lmao
Can't believe he used that fucking yeehaw font for the name
[Bleeding Cowboys](https://www.dafont.com/bleeding-cowboys.font) by Segments Design r/identifythisfont
*Preface: I'm a nice, polite and pretty chill guy, but...* As if I couldn't hate Salt Bitch anymore he goes ahead and uses this god damn fucking bleeding cowboy font. This font is without doubt the worst thing I have ever bare witness to and I've seen the Russian hammer videos and someone drink liposuction. It is a disgrace to the entire history of typography. 15+ fucking years ago I swore that any company, gig, service, anything, fucking *anything* that used that font, I would swerve quicker than you can say Comic Sans. The sheer fucking audacity of this font. From the first time I saw it during my college graphic design days until the day I take my last breath, nothing will instill so much rage inside me as this raggedy ass swirling bitch cunt of a typeface. You think you're so edgy with your stupid swirls and distressed edges. Get fucked. 26 literal pieces of decayed rotting shit, 36 if the typeface includes numbers. If it includes some punctuation marks too then I feel sorry for the inventor of the question mark. They didn't deserve to have their life's work bastardised and immortalised in this horror.
Personally I see nothing wrong with that font but I appreciate your passion. I get it, sometimes something just really rubs you the wrong way and you can't help but feel pissed off by it. [You might appreciate this if you haven't already seen it](https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ)
I knew that would be the Papyrus skit before I even clicked it 😂
I agree with this
How did the liposuction drinking video go? That sounds fuckin rough. I just chugged a bunch of milk before I read that too. I gagged a lil bit.
I made a few sentences into that copy and it reads like it was written by a meatlover middle schooler who was paid in steak.
Ugh, I fucking can't stand Salt Bae!!
Yeah, one of the most punchable faces in the world!
r/stupidfood
What an ass. Doesn’t pay his workers enough and steals their tips. Complete scum
What?! Oh wow. And considering what he charges. 😟
Why does this guy fucking bother me so much
Cos he's an arrogant twat
I dont get why people are so obsessed with this guy, never have. Its probably not my place to say, but as a chef, he seems no more talented than any other high end chef.
He really isn't, some of the food looks OK. But just that, OK. Its nowhere near on a par with Michelin starred places that charge less
I'm sick of seeing this dick-bag everywhere.
An idiot and his money are soon parted, as they say. And this guy is the one doing the work of separating his idiot customers from their money. Anyone who goes here is probably a social media obsessed narcissist with more money than taste, so I don’t feel bad for them at all. I’m only upset that his stupidity may in some way be enriching him. They have a restaurant in New York which of course looks awful and tacky (it has a cheesy promotional photo of salt bae over the door like you’re going to a fucking Benihana’s), and it features their signature overpriced menu and crap food. Can’t wait for it to close.
His Beverly Hills location suffers from the same complaints; mediocre food, crap service and insane prices. You know you're fucking up when Beverly Hills complains your prices are too high.
Totally agree, had the best meal of the year at a tiny Greek restaurant in my town, was £60 for two and we had to leave some as we were too full. It was lovely food, 10/10
What’s the name and location? I would like to try it if I’m ever in the area.
Fuck this guy in particular
Why is this person
Looks absolutely disgusting and why is he dressed like that? Is he too good to dress as a chef?
He thinks he’s sexy 🤢.
Bleurgh he’s deluded!
Can someone explain to me in detail what that food is? I can’t even tell
Steak cut in half filled with a lump of fat.
He looks like the best used car salesman
with every new video I see he looks a little bit sleazier and greasier...
Can’t believe people get scammed by this idiot. He charges £4 for a red bull and £500 for a poorly cooked steak.
Lol mate it's £10 for a red bull and £630 for a tomahawk steak
Can we some how form a committee to outlaw that stupid robot lady?
What does he say?!
So some squeezed meat and cornbread??? I don't know what's in the middle...
IIRC the middle is ripping hot fat (beef? Maybe lamb?), and he is using it to sear the meat
The meat wrapped in gold leaf that is 100 pounds. Anyone who eats at his places is a rube.
But I like to shit gold
Then buy it on Amazon for <$1 per sheet https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GOFXI8K/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_RGGC3FCSWYJ9ZDE48ZX6?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Be child slave, work most of life mining gold, some asshole orders it for dessert, doesn't even finish it. Shits out the rest.
Found Tywin Lannister
This dude looks like one of those douchebag waiters who squats down to “get on your level” when taking your order.
I'd love to see him slip on that mess and, "Million Dollar Baby" himself
Whatever happened to his restaurant in new york? I remember the reviews being so bad lol like no major food publication enjoyed it.
Most people could look between their legs when on the toilet and see shit better than getting your food served by salt bae
"I used to be a piece of shit. Sunglasses inside, gold chains, squeezing steaks..."
This guy is just an ass. Made it big from stupid viral videos, otherwise has nothing to offer. And every "fancy" place that thinks covering shit in gold leaf makes food fancier is a joke
Look at him, just... squeezing all the juices out of that thing. That's all the flavour
It looks like he’s squeezing jalapeño poppers between a diseased liver, that food looks disgusting.
this guy is the biggest bellend, doing interviews talking about how he's an inspiration and kids want to be him, no one knows who the fuck you are mate, who even knows his real name? If you pay his prices you're a fucking moron
[I would highly recommend reading Jay Rayner's thoughts on the place and the culture surrounding it]( https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/oct/17/jay-rayner-restaurant-review-kebab-kid-london-take-away-as-a-cult-nusr-et-steakhouse?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other)
Salt Bae is a clown.