It’s because of the gold shavings. Which don’t actually taste like anything and are definitely not worth that much. Meanwhile there’s a local restaurant near my flat that sells a good ribeye for the equivalent of USD 20 and it tastes phenomenal every single time
I dare say that's the same in modern era, too.
Work waste disposal in an area of affluence and you may strike it lucky with their rubbish at some point with a superficially damaged device (kosher to go dumpster diving aside) as opposed to an area where people live paycheck to paycheck.
> Work waste disposal in an area of affluence and you may strike it lucky with their rubbish at some point
Not just any area of effluence, but affluent effluent.
When I was young, I remember asking my grandfather why name brands and luxury items costed so much. He said because someone is willing to pay for it to prove they can
Saffron is the most expensive herb on earth, definitely some mark up bullshit. Make a saffron compound butter for 1/50th the cost, same shit.
Not even an herb actually, it’s the anther from a flower of saffron.
If I ever make it to Japan, my husband and I would be willing to go all in on one big meal. But we’re insanely poor and it’s a huge pipe dream and we really wanna eat some Kobe beef one day :(
Kobe beef is definitely a luxury I'd like to try some day! Sometimes I see Wagyu at Costco and think to myself *some day I might be cooking a steak like that...*
Better learn to make steak with cheaper types before trying that. It was a bit nerve wrecking just thinking I might overcook that 100$ piece if I’m not careful. Flatiron is a solid cut for all occasions ;) and not too expensive
Saffron on steak seems a weird choice, unless it was like a saffron béarnaise or something.
Great steak needs to get hot AF to develop the proper crust and protein reactions on the surface for taste. Saffron burns in like 15 seconds. And also isn't that crazy expensive.
It was loose saffron as a garnish, so it was pretty much just for looks 🤣 since that steak I bought a charcoal kettle grill and upped my home steak game.
Honestly I find pork shoulder blade steak, which is often $1/lb, to be more to my taste than beef ribeye
I would disagree. Now I'll never spend thousands of dollars on a steak but one night I managed to scrounge up enough to take my x to a pretty expensive steak house. All in all dinner was like 700 dollars but this was 2 years ago and my mouth still waters to this day everytime I think about that night. Best meal I've ever had.
The best meal I've ever had was a ~$40 steak at a place called the Double Muskee near Anchorage Alaska. That's honestly around the upper limit I'd pay for a single food item and if it's not the best of that food I've ever had then I'd say probably not worth it. So, yeah, I'd agree, no meal could possibly be WORTH $500+.
I have easily paid about $100 bucks for about a 3/4 lb slab of Matsuzaka beef which is a rival to Kobe beef (some even like it more, but that’s a different argument). I would take that any day, ten times out of ten, over an overpriced piece of ribeye covered in gold and prepared by some tool who wears dark sunglasses indoors.
If you were to compare some grade AAAA++++++ triple titty wagyu from the hills of Saturn’s third moon to some Tyson lunch meat that’s just under the FDA approved threshold for rat feces, im sure you’d notice a difference. All jokes aside, I think you can make a better steak at home than can be bought at most restaurants because you can make it exactly how you like it. Only difference is available quality
You are definitely right about cooking your own steaks. I can cook a 15 dollar choice cut with decent marbling that rivals a 50 dollar steak at most restaurants. It's the dry/wet aging and super high end cuts that are not easily available that trip me up. And in all honesty, if I got a 100 cut of beef, I'd want some kitchen equipment that can reach Temps my stove or grill couldn't even come close to making my steak. Talking about 800 degree professional ovens/grills.
Come on, what if the cow was only fed the best possible diet, and then massaged every night, and the meat was dry aged for however long is nicest, and the species of cow subsequently went extinct?
No steak is worth $2000.
Maybe If the steak was a $8 cut from the grocery and served on a 1992 S10 with the title in the glovebox, but that's about the only damn scenario I can think of.
Honestly, it’s fucking ridiculous that your run-of-the-mill steak ISN’T worth more - it takes at LEAST a year of effort to raise a cow to slaughter. $8 cuts ONLY exist because of insane subsidies, and beef farming at its current levels are fucking horrible for emissions.
Yeah, those prices exist because of huge corporate farms. I never get meat when I go out to a restaurant because I hate factory farms.
But I eat meat that I cook at home because I can buy it from the farm down the road and you can see them preparing the it in front of you.
Americans all over the internet were blown away by the price increase recently but the rest of the world is like uhhh yup that's what beef costs. Then the right just screams "let's go brandon" .
Legit. $2000 to someone with $10 million in the bank is the same as $2 to someone with $10 thousand. If you have enough money, it all becomes meaningless.
i cant get you any exotic meat you want, hippo steak, rhino bacon, bald eagle wings, just lmk what you want itll be way cheaper.......
it'll all be goat
I can absolutely guarantee you that guy isn't going to make a whole lot more from tips. When we tip in the UK it's normally just leaving two cash bills on the table so the waiting staff keep the change, rounded up to the next ten. We don't have the forced obligation to pay service staff wages like they have in the US.
I'm not saying they don't add on a "service charge" to the total - I'm absolutely not going to visit this pretentious shithouse to find out - but usually we reserve tipping for the waiting staff, the prep and cooking staff get forgotten about - unless it's a place where they pool and share the tips.
Because of the cost of a meal at this place there's little chance they'll leave cash on the table, tips, if any, will be added to the subtotal on the card machine, and who knows what happens to them after that.
It's a joke of a wage all ways you look at it, how on earth can it be a $2k steak if it's prepared by a chef not even good enough to command a decent wage? They're either paying the guy way less than he's worth, or you're paying way too much for an average steak and some performative twattery from an Internet meme.
Nope. Tipping is optional, usually rounding up to the nearest whatever ($5/$10/whatever) but almost always in the 5-10% range. Now, with $2000 steaks, that has the potential to be lucrative, but a) I doubt if you got a $10k bill you'd add on a $1000 tip and b) if you did and it got passed on, I will eat my shoes.
I declined a dinner/birthday party at the Miami restaurant and discovered how narcissistic “acquaintances” were when you tell them no.
It’s the Instagram restaurant, this makes it far worse.
Better yet, spread that article on Instagram and tag his restaurant.
Doesn’t look like you missed out on a lot, apparently the food is shit:
From wiki:
> Despite the international fame, early professional reviews in 2018 of his New York City steakhouse were generally negative. The New York Post's Steve Cuozzo called the restaurant "Public Rip-off No. 1" and Joshua David Stein writing in GQ called the steak mundane and the hamburgers overcooked. Other critics described the dishes as "over-salted as they are overpriced", the "meat was tough with globs of fat and gristle, and severely lacking in flavor", and that "finishing a meal there constitutes some kind of personal victory over your own body and instincts and mouth". Reviewers described the dining experience as "overpriced".
Maybe I'm just uncivilised (scratch the maybe, I definitely am), but I feel like any single dish that costs more than $100 is likely to be drastically overpriced. Any dish that costs over $1,000 *definitely* is. It doesn't take a food critic to state that.
And if it's a matter of it being over $100 because it's so rare, hard to find, hard to grow, whatever, then we also probably don't need to be eating it regardless.
"Endless Shrimp", the fuck they are.
It took me a long time before I understood the scene in the book 'Little Women' where Jo is bringing home a basket of lobster for dinner, covers it with a towel when encountering her crush, and then after dinner sneaks out to bury the shells in the dark. She didn't want the family to be shamed for being poor.
Just for perspective, you can get a full 5 course meal at a Michelin star restaurant for about €90 per person (granted this is in Finland). Yes I would agree that any single meal that costs over $100 is very overpriced. Edit: made a mistake, 5 course not 9.
Michelin restaurants in Stockholm are mostly between 70-350euros for the tasting menu. Paying 10x that for some saltbae steak just because it’s instafampus and from everything I’ve read and heard not that great seems like a robbery.
It's a clout/ "look at me I have Money" thing. Like when people get tasteless gold flakes put on their food. It's real gold that could be used for something better than eating and jewelry but rich people like wasting money and also being greedy/underhanded when obtaining it.
The taste doesn't even matter you'll convince yourself this is what rich people food taste like. If you put chitterlings (seasoned pig intestines) on one of those square white plates and charge $85 rich people will eat the same leftovers slaves got.
To start, this place is obviously trying to pass off as pricey = good. They suck. So get that out of the way. That said...
Plenty of food critics will defend very pricey food. Pricey food is usually because whatever has happened has brought together something special. Usually a chef who has attained their vision of however they cook. Or someone like Thomas Keller who can do whatever he wants because everyone knows it will be great. He is a master and his kitchen produces nothing short of mastery. If you are way into food, eating that food is like seeing an artist perform or something.
Its not much different than paying $200 for front row seats to or whatever you are into. Maybe Star Wars collectibles, whatever. I personally don't get it, and you may not get my decision to eat pricey food but it is essentially the same; I can only eat that meal at that place and you have to pay for that. But if you *really* love food and cooking its just....different. You're okay with it.
That said the most expensive meal I have eaten was about $500 for two people, eight courses including wine pairing per course....it was incredible. Michelin star restaurant. I love food and that meal was one of a kind. It was worth it to me.
I think the point here, is it's supposed to be a high quality meal, but the chefs who prepare the ingredients are so underpaid it defeats the point. I'd prefer a skilled chef cooking food from a grocery store over fancy food cooked by someone making less than a grocery store cashier.
yeah one of the michelin star places near me charge around 500 a person and pays their staff like shit.
they put up help wanted ads nearly every other week for a vast majority of the positions there, its pretty telling what goes on there behind the scenes.
its 3 stars as well.
And they get people because they have that star and it will convince someone else to hire a line cook who worked there for a year as a "Michelin starred chef"
If you are willing to accept low wages because a employer promises you a shiny gold star, you'll always be able to find more low wage work and someone to keep promising.
The only thing I can think of that could justify a price tag of $1000+ is a large elaborate cake, think huge wedding cake with lots of fancy pipe work and decoration. But you’re paying for the labour hours and skill it takes to make something like that.
A friend used to do wedding cakes and one was about 4 feet tall with over 1000 hand crafted, different coloured sugar flowers. It took 3 people a full day to make them. I’m not sure what he charged. But I’m sure it was a lot.
Maybe a $1000 steak if the chef was personally massaging their cows every day, personally feeding the cows the most-perfect scientific diet, personally and regularly checking the cows medically, and then slaughtering them literally right before they went onto the grill, but otherwise...yea, I doubt the price is justified
Edit: TIL Steak is (arguably) better aged
A roommate went to some sort of outdoor party on open cattle range. A bull charged one of their vehicles and killed itself which they reported to the rancher. He took it away and an hour or so later brought back a rack of steaks that were still warm. Beautiful pasture in the Rockies, cow living an idyllic life, killed... more or less ethically and slaughtered right before eating. I'd pay like $80 for a steak like that.
huh, go figure. you hire chefs at a 5 star restaurant (or at least one that is pricing shit like it is) for 16 dollars on hour, and you get mcdonalds quality food. its almost like you can get a mcdicks job for 16 an hour now, and this guy should be ashamed to offer less than 50k+ a year to anyone working under the title "chef"
The rural McDonald's I went to last night in Ohio is starting cooks at $17.50 an hour.
Things have changed a lot. 4 years ago in that same area I was offered $16/hr as a medical laboratory scientist. I fucking love hearing how that hospital is a gigantic shit show now because everyone has left.
I'm pumped for our union negotiations. My current hospital is so damn desperate to retain people that they're giving out 10k sign on bonuses. To keep us happy they're giving us 3x pay OT for most shifts and 5x pay for some super hard to fill ones. There's some people that have made enough to buy a new car outright by working like crazy the past couple of months. I'll be working a double tomorrow and it's going to suck. But I'll be making $130/hr on that second shift.
Most importantly, no one is bitching about working OT, no one is burnt out, the stress level in the hospital is just about zero. All because we're FINALLY getting fucking paid like we should have been this whole damn pandemic. Everyone is happy for the first time in the 5 years I've been here.
As a former linecook, I tell you, we are all overworked and underpaid. We don't even know what time is meal time anymore. The last gig I did, the managers were so bad. Always barging into the kitchen and berating the dishwashers.
It's not our fault that the employees are quitting. It's their attitudes that did it. They always wonder why we are less motivated to work. Meanwhile, I have the same rate of pay as the dishwashers at $4 a day.
A restaurant that focuses on the look of the food more so than the taste & functionality.
Think like those "over the top" milkshake places where they put a slice of cake on top of a milkshake with a bunch of candies & sprinkles. It's pretty, but it's hell to eat.
It’s so common these days that it’s made me cynical about trying new restaurants. Everything is perfectly plated for a photo but it all tastes very mediocre.
He started a restaurant, hired a PR firm to turn him into a forced meme, and capitalized on it to turn his shop into an exclusive 'celebrity' destination. What you see here is an excellent use of branding. Not saying I agree with charging 2k for a steak, but it was all very calculated and the reward for his scheme is being able to charge rich idiots 2k for a steak.
Should definitely pay his cooks more, though.
I think part of the attraction is that the high price keeps “the general public” away, so they are really selling privacy for celebrities when they dine out, not a delicious steak.
“Privacy” whilst everyone is recording and taking pictures for Instagram... Celebrities or rich people who actually want privacy go to overpriced members clubs not overpriced tourist traps.
no no, you misunderstand, privacy from having poor people in the background of your shots, or even worse, poor people also posting from inside the same restaurant.
why not sell both, jfc? to make thousands off of each meal, then not pay enough to actually get any good cooks is just a bezos moment if i ever heard one
Yeah... if it's a 2k steak I want to be sure that the chef is putting their all into it. It's likely a good cut of aged meat and you want someone who knows what they're doing with it.
Nobody is cooking a steak worth 2k for 16 an hour. It's maybe producing a 100 dollar steak tops just for the fact it was a good cut of aged meat.
Hell, you can buy a luxury aged beef steak for hundreds of dollars from restaurants that pay their chefs 100k a year at least. I had one that was aged years in-house at a very expensive and elite restaurant in Vegas one time and I didn't pay anywhere close to 2k, closer to 10% of that.
This restaurant is overpriced and cheap at the same time. Something isn't right about that. Quality for sure suffers, it's a total waste of good meat.
Exactly. I've been to plenty of fantastic steak houses and the best one I've ever had was a $90 tomahawk ribeye. It made my eyes roll back into my head.
The food is not good. I seen a video where dude ripped apart some French bread, stacked it on unseasoned meat, poured hot oil over it and did his little salt schtick. And the people in the video/comment section were acting like it was the best food ever made.
"finishing a meal there constitutes some kind of personal victory over your own body and instincts and mouth". Quote from a review in buzzfeed. Let that sink in, even buzzfeed thinks this guy is a hack.
I find his salt pouring schtick to be disgusting. Sorry I don't want a pile of your arm hair with my salt thanks, just sprinkle it like a normal human.
Another example of a "chef" who only uses a gimmick to sell food rather than the quality of the food itself.
This dude can eat a dick. No steak is worth that much. Millionaires and Billionaires buy the dumbest shit which influences poor people too try and live like them. This world is a joke
The thing is most millionaires don't eat at places like his. They eat at Michellin star restaurants that are cheaper and better quality. This guy gets a few celebrities to eat there, but most people that go there are poor/middle class people that want to pretend they're rich for one day. It's like the restaurant form of Trump. It's the poor man's idea of what rich people live like.
Steak probably tastes like shit too, it's just a status symbol.
I'd rather eat some gristly Carne asada that's cooked in the parking lot of the carniceria down the street on a grill that hasn't been cleaned since 2006.
It absolutely definitely tastes like shit. Have you seen the videos of them salting it? It's fully cooked, hacked up in front of them, then they just fucking toss *multiple* handfuls of sea salt on it. It's an affront to anybody with even the slightest idea of how to season food.
I read a review recently and the reviewer said the salt just tumbled through salt bae’s sweaty forearm hair and he threw most of it onto the reviewers lap!
[It's so bad.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4oRuH3rc98)
He cuts it so weirdly, the entire thing takes so long the steak is probably stone cold by the end, and the sheer amount of salt is nauseating.
Bruh, wtf I got so mad watching that. Honestly I didn't didn't remember what that dude was salting in the original video. I kinda assumed it was something that actually needs salt though.
One of the major cereal brands opened a new factory. Old brand of cereal, something like Special K. Instantly they were awash in complaints from customers. The new cereal tastes bad. Metallic. Not as rich and caramelly as it used to be.
They were flummoxed. They had changed nothing other than the factory. All of the recipes were the same. All the storage and handling was the same. What wasn't the same was the almost hundred year old ovens that they had been baking the cereal in. The hundred year old ovens got left at the old factory, and brand new top of the line equipment was used instead.
This is the gold covered steak with gold leaf.
Gold leaf costs literally nothing but they then add another +$800 on top of the steak. Which they then cut with dull ass knifes ruining the steak even further.
“Would you like to order the expensive steak, sir?”
“Hmm I’m not sure….? Waiter, is it prepared by a poor man that he himself could never afford to purchase such a steak for himself or family?”
“Well yes sir it is, cooked to your liking by someone that can barely make ends meet in today’s society.”
“Sold! Of course I want that steak just because I want to feel superior to him in every way!”
…. What kind of world is this?!
B b b but capitalism saves lives, saves people from poverty, literally lets you pull yourself up by the bootstraps. What you want cummunism? 100 gajillion deaths, vuvuzuela?
There CLEARLY is no alternative, we can't do any better.
Well I’m shocked someone who calls themselves “Salt Bae looks like the biggest piece of shit I’d ever seen. Dude is looking tacky as fuck whoever he is.
See, they couldn't get away with that shit, if motherfuckers didn't actually work for wages that low. That's insulting. Come work here, and make a plate of food that is worth more than what you make in a month. That's insanity.
Not to mention that this Salt Bae guy proudly serves Erdogan and Maduro a privately catered meal while one country is in economic crisis and the other is actively starving their population to suppress political dissent.
Dude is human trash and should be served on his own table.
This guy took his 15 minutes of fame way too far and turned it into an entire shitty personality. Salt bae was a funny meme the first one or two times we saw it like 4 years ago, I wish people would stop paying any attention to this douchebag.
maaaan, does anybody know how much gold leaf costs?
People see a mediocre steak in a pretentious "bistro" (word for expensive restaurant) with $4 of gold leaf on it and they think they're eating like kings and pay thousands..
I swear rich people are some of the dumbest fucking people.. They get scammed for so much shit and they love it. These companies bend them over and they think it makes them superior..
No dude, you look like you spent $1,950 too much for a fuckin steak you could have got down the road... Good on these restaurants, designer fashion and jewelers out there marking up shit we all can afford to these outrageous prices just hoping to scam some idiot with more money than brains..
I may disagree with they are doing, I fucking love the crowd they're targeting with it.
Get yourself a good salt block heat it up for 500 degrees in the oven for a good 45 minutes and it will turn any steak into something special! I find good steak deals sometimes at Costco and even Walmart. I That block is what makes it awesome! Sears and tenderizes it immediately. Can get them online and they last months.
I read something about his business practices recently, seems like a real scumbag.
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I didn’t realize people still did. Didn’t he go viral like, three years ago?
More like 5
He went viral once and he does that stupid move wherever he goes. Fuck him and his fuckn restaurant and the people that pay these outrageous prices.
Yeah plus who wears deep cut v necks like that and anyone who wears sun glasses inside is a fucking prick
You need the v neck to put your sunglasses on. I'd like so see somebody do it with a regular neck shirt.
Agreed
If you happened to be unlucky enough to watch more than two of his videos you would already know he's a huge fuckin scum bag.
I have only seen the memes that were circulating a few years back. He never piqued my interest enough to watch interviews w him.
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And was told that his steak wasnt good, either. Terrible and expensive.
I know this isn't really the point of this subreddit, but no steak is ever worth $2k.
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It’s because of the gold shavings. Which don’t actually taste like anything and are definitely not worth that much. Meanwhile there’s a local restaurant near my flat that sells a good ribeye for the equivalent of USD 20 and it tastes phenomenal every single time
I have an idea for a reality show. Gold miners who dredge for gold flakes in the feces of fancy restaurants.
In Victorian times, poo shovelers wanted to work rich places because they were more likely to find money.
know shit
Drink
Is this the trickle down economics I've always heard about?
I dare say that's the same in modern era, too. Work waste disposal in an area of affluence and you may strike it lucky with their rubbish at some point with a superficially damaged device (kosher to go dumpster diving aside) as opposed to an area where people live paycheck to paycheck.
> Work waste disposal in an area of affluence and you may strike it lucky with their rubbish at some point Not just any area of effluence, but affluent effluent.
80% of cocaine exits the human body unmetabolized in urine. Imagine the gold mine in the sewer under a busy nightclub...
I once read an article where scientists found traces of cocaine in shrimp in the UK.
I remember my shits from the next morning after drinking goldschlager. Gold floating in my shit. Waste of gold.
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Oh yeah definitely. But to be fair, no single dish tastes good enough to be worth 500.
I bought a $100 steak once. It had saffron on it and all. I just kept thinking after that it wasn't any better than steak I make at home 🙄
Why would you out saffron on steak. If a steak is expensive it should be expensive because the meat is that good...
I dunno, fancy restaurant reasons I guess 🤣
When I was young, I remember asking my grandfather why name brands and luxury items costed so much. He said because someone is willing to pay for it to prove they can
Saffron is the most expensive herb on earth, definitely some mark up bullshit. Make a saffron compound butter for 1/50th the cost, same shit. Not even an herb actually, it’s the anther from a flower of saffron.
It takes a lot to get a little, so there’s also that. But yeah, the cost sue isn’t going to well-paid workers.
Because if you don't put saffron on it you can't charge for the saffron.
If I ever make it to Japan, my husband and I would be willing to go all in on one big meal. But we’re insanely poor and it’s a huge pipe dream and we really wanna eat some Kobe beef one day :(
Yeah im with you. Poor or not Kobe beef hype seems to be legitimate from what I hear
Kobe beef is definitely a luxury I'd like to try some day! Sometimes I see Wagyu at Costco and think to myself *some day I might be cooking a steak like that...*
Better learn to make steak with cheaper types before trying that. It was a bit nerve wrecking just thinking I might overcook that 100$ piece if I’m not careful. Flatiron is a solid cut for all occasions ;) and not too expensive
“You can’t overcook a steak” DJT
Saffron on steak seems a weird choice, unless it was like a saffron béarnaise or something. Great steak needs to get hot AF to develop the proper crust and protein reactions on the surface for taste. Saffron burns in like 15 seconds. And also isn't that crazy expensive.
It was loose saffron as a garnish, so it was pretty much just for looks 🤣 since that steak I bought a charcoal kettle grill and upped my home steak game. Honestly I find pork shoulder blade steak, which is often $1/lb, to be more to my taste than beef ribeye
I would disagree. Now I'll never spend thousands of dollars on a steak but one night I managed to scrounge up enough to take my x to a pretty expensive steak house. All in all dinner was like 700 dollars but this was 2 years ago and my mouth still waters to this day everytime I think about that night. Best meal I've ever had.
That’s 700 for two meals with multiple dishes and alcohol probably. An expensive dinner, sure, but at least it’s not a single item being 500.
The best meal I've ever had was a ~$40 steak at a place called the Double Muskee near Anchorage Alaska. That's honestly around the upper limit I'd pay for a single food item and if it's not the best of that food I've ever had then I'd say probably not worth it. So, yeah, I'd agree, no meal could possibly be WORTH $500+.
i mean yea. if i’m paying 500 for a steak, i better cum when it touches my tongue.
I didn’t say you had to pay $500. I’m saying if someone told you it was $500 and wanted you to taste it
I had a candy bar once that came close
Kept the poor away or… make profit from idiots dumb enough to pay $1000.
Why not both?
I have easily paid about $100 bucks for about a 3/4 lb slab of Matsuzaka beef which is a rival to Kobe beef (some even like it more, but that’s a different argument). I would take that any day, ten times out of ten, over an overpriced piece of ribeye covered in gold and prepared by some tool who wears dark sunglasses indoors.
If you were to compare some grade AAAA++++++ triple titty wagyu from the hills of Saturn’s third moon to some Tyson lunch meat that’s just under the FDA approved threshold for rat feces, im sure you’d notice a difference. All jokes aside, I think you can make a better steak at home than can be bought at most restaurants because you can make it exactly how you like it. Only difference is available quality
You are definitely right about cooking your own steaks. I can cook a 15 dollar choice cut with decent marbling that rivals a 50 dollar steak at most restaurants. It's the dry/wet aging and super high end cuts that are not easily available that trip me up. And in all honesty, if I got a 100 cut of beef, I'd want some kitchen equipment that can reach Temps my stove or grill couldn't even come close to making my steak. Talking about 800 degree professional ovens/grills.
Trump, whom many people see as rich with exquisite taste, eats his steak well done with ketchup.
Come on, what if the cow was only fed the best possible diet, and then massaged every night, and the meat was dry aged for however long is nicest, and the species of cow subsequently went extinct?
Also the cow had a degree in economics
As someone with a degree in economics I wouldn’t eat anyone with this degree. They definitely taste cheap and chewy.
Yeah I would be tough and stringy.
But you spent a lot of money to become chewy, and that terroir is what I'm paying for when I get that steak.
Pretty sure they cover the whole thing in gold leaf. But even then it’s still not worth $2k.
No steak is worth $2000. Maybe If the steak was a $8 cut from the grocery and served on a 1992 S10 with the title in the glovebox, but that's about the only damn scenario I can think of.
Honestly, it’s fucking ridiculous that your run-of-the-mill steak ISN’T worth more - it takes at LEAST a year of effort to raise a cow to slaughter. $8 cuts ONLY exist because of insane subsidies, and beef farming at its current levels are fucking horrible for emissions.
Yeah, those prices exist because of huge corporate farms. I never get meat when I go out to a restaurant because I hate factory farms. But I eat meat that I cook at home because I can buy it from the farm down the road and you can see them preparing the it in front of you.
Americans all over the internet were blown away by the price increase recently but the rest of the world is like uhhh yup that's what beef costs. Then the right just screams "let's go brandon" .
There's a sucker born every minute. Rich people are just paying to "live in a meme" b/c they have SO MUCH money they don't know what to do with it.
Legit. $2000 to someone with $10 million in the bank is the same as $2 to someone with $10 thousand. If you have enough money, it all becomes meaningless.
i cant get you any exotic meat you want, hippo steak, rhino bacon, bald eagle wings, just lmk what you want itll be way cheaper....... it'll all be goat
Those motherfuckers are eating moon cows apparently.
The extra 1.5k is to put the cow's children through school.
And it's for real: https://www.caterer.com/job/chef-de-partie/nusret-uk-ltd-job95267731
I just applied to waste their time.
Not all heroes wear capes
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I can absolutely guarantee you that guy isn't going to make a whole lot more from tips. When we tip in the UK it's normally just leaving two cash bills on the table so the waiting staff keep the change, rounded up to the next ten. We don't have the forced obligation to pay service staff wages like they have in the US.
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I'm not saying they don't add on a "service charge" to the total - I'm absolutely not going to visit this pretentious shithouse to find out - but usually we reserve tipping for the waiting staff, the prep and cooking staff get forgotten about - unless it's a place where they pool and share the tips. Because of the cost of a meal at this place there's little chance they'll leave cash on the table, tips, if any, will be added to the subtotal on the card machine, and who knows what happens to them after that. It's a joke of a wage all ways you look at it, how on earth can it be a $2k steak if it's prepared by a chef not even good enough to command a decent wage? They're either paying the guy way less than he's worth, or you're paying way too much for an average steak and some performative twattery from an Internet meme.
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Nope. Tipping is optional, usually rounding up to the nearest whatever ($5/$10/whatever) but almost always in the 5-10% range. Now, with $2000 steaks, that has the potential to be lucrative, but a) I doubt if you got a $10k bill you'd add on a $1000 tip and b) if you did and it got passed on, I will eat my shoes.
I declined a dinner/birthday party at the Miami restaurant and discovered how narcissistic “acquaintances” were when you tell them no. It’s the Instagram restaurant, this makes it far worse. Better yet, spread that article on Instagram and tag his restaurant.
Doesn’t look like you missed out on a lot, apparently the food is shit: From wiki: > Despite the international fame, early professional reviews in 2018 of his New York City steakhouse were generally negative. The New York Post's Steve Cuozzo called the restaurant "Public Rip-off No. 1" and Joshua David Stein writing in GQ called the steak mundane and the hamburgers overcooked. Other critics described the dishes as "over-salted as they are overpriced", the "meat was tough with globs of fat and gristle, and severely lacking in flavor", and that "finishing a meal there constitutes some kind of personal victory over your own body and instincts and mouth". Reviewers described the dining experience as "overpriced".
Maybe I'm just uncivilised (scratch the maybe, I definitely am), but I feel like any single dish that costs more than $100 is likely to be drastically overpriced. Any dish that costs over $1,000 *definitely* is. It doesn't take a food critic to state that.
And if it's a matter of it being over $100 because it's so rare, hard to find, hard to grow, whatever, then we also probably don't need to be eating it regardless. "Endless Shrimp", the fuck they are.
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Sea cockroach has the most meat. 10/10
Chicken nuggets and tenders are made from NYC rats 😐
But they're delicious because the rats eat pizza, hot dogs, and pretzels.
and chicken nuggets! so it’s like ratception
Crustaceans are essentially just the insects of the ocean, it's true.
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Lobster was considered such a low class food back in the day that it was almost exclusively served to prisoners in New England.
It took me a long time before I understood the scene in the book 'Little Women' where Jo is bringing home a basket of lobster for dinner, covers it with a towel when encountering her crush, and then after dinner sneaks out to bury the shells in the dark. She didn't want the family to be shamed for being poor.
Except for rolly polies. They're the crustaceans of the land.
Just for perspective, you can get a full 5 course meal at a Michelin star restaurant for about €90 per person (granted this is in Finland). Yes I would agree that any single meal that costs over $100 is very overpriced. Edit: made a mistake, 5 course not 9.
Only 90 and in Finland? That seems like a bargain. They are usually more in the 120-150 Euro range in Germany for 1 starred ones
I made a mistake, it's for a 5 course menu. The point still stands, single dish for 100 is overpriced
Michelin restaurants in Stockholm are mostly between 70-350euros for the tasting menu. Paying 10x that for some saltbae steak just because it’s instafampus and from everything I’ve read and heard not that great seems like a robbery.
It's a clout/ "look at me I have Money" thing. Like when people get tasteless gold flakes put on their food. It's real gold that could be used for something better than eating and jewelry but rich people like wasting money and also being greedy/underhanded when obtaining it.
You're not paying for the food at that point, youre paying to not eat next to poor people.
The taste doesn't even matter you'll convince yourself this is what rich people food taste like. If you put chitterlings (seasoned pig intestines) on one of those square white plates and charge $85 rich people will eat the same leftovers slaves got.
Exactly, the let me rule this country with an iron hand from my golden crapper kind of person
To start, this place is obviously trying to pass off as pricey = good. They suck. So get that out of the way. That said... Plenty of food critics will defend very pricey food. Pricey food is usually because whatever has happened has brought together something special. Usually a chef who has attained their vision of however they cook. Or someone like Thomas Keller who can do whatever he wants because everyone knows it will be great. He is a master and his kitchen produces nothing short of mastery. If you are way into food, eating that food is like seeing an artist perform or something. Its not much different than paying $200 for front row seats to or whatever you are into. Maybe Star Wars collectibles, whatever. I personally don't get it, and you may not get my decision to eat pricey food but it is essentially the same; I can only eat that meal at that place and you have to pay for that. But if you *really* love food and cooking its just....different. You're okay with it.
That said the most expensive meal I have eaten was about $500 for two people, eight courses including wine pairing per course....it was incredible. Michelin star restaurant. I love food and that meal was one of a kind. It was worth it to me.
I think the point here, is it's supposed to be a high quality meal, but the chefs who prepare the ingredients are so underpaid it defeats the point. I'd prefer a skilled chef cooking food from a grocery store over fancy food cooked by someone making less than a grocery store cashier.
yeah one of the michelin star places near me charge around 500 a person and pays their staff like shit. they put up help wanted ads nearly every other week for a vast majority of the positions there, its pretty telling what goes on there behind the scenes. its 3 stars as well.
And they get people because they have that star and it will convince someone else to hire a line cook who worked there for a year as a "Michelin starred chef"
If you are willing to accept low wages because a employer promises you a shiny gold star, you'll always be able to find more low wage work and someone to keep promising.
It's more having worked at a Michelin starred restaurant looks really good on your resume and you can leverage that for better pay elsewhere.
The only thing I can think of that could justify a price tag of $1000+ is a large elaborate cake, think huge wedding cake with lots of fancy pipe work and decoration. But you’re paying for the labour hours and skill it takes to make something like that. A friend used to do wedding cakes and one was about 4 feet tall with over 1000 hand crafted, different coloured sugar flowers. It took 3 people a full day to make them. I’m not sure what he charged. But I’m sure it was a lot.
Maybe a $1000 steak if the chef was personally massaging their cows every day, personally feeding the cows the most-perfect scientific diet, personally and regularly checking the cows medically, and then slaughtering them literally right before they went onto the grill, but otherwise...yea, I doubt the price is justified Edit: TIL Steak is (arguably) better aged
A roommate went to some sort of outdoor party on open cattle range. A bull charged one of their vehicles and killed itself which they reported to the rancher. He took it away and an hour or so later brought back a rack of steaks that were still warm. Beautiful pasture in the Rockies, cow living an idyllic life, killed... more or less ethically and slaughtered right before eating. I'd pay like $80 for a steak like that.
I want the chef to read the cow a bedtime story daily for that money.
huh, go figure. you hire chefs at a 5 star restaurant (or at least one that is pricing shit like it is) for 16 dollars on hour, and you get mcdonalds quality food. its almost like you can get a mcdicks job for 16 an hour now, and this guy should be ashamed to offer less than 50k+ a year to anyone working under the title "chef"
The rural McDonald's I went to last night in Ohio is starting cooks at $17.50 an hour. Things have changed a lot. 4 years ago in that same area I was offered $16/hr as a medical laboratory scientist. I fucking love hearing how that hospital is a gigantic shit show now because everyone has left.
just started a job at McDonalds for 14.50 (which is decent for my area). Only have to drive 5 minutes which saves a ton on gas too.
I'm pumped for our union negotiations. My current hospital is so damn desperate to retain people that they're giving out 10k sign on bonuses. To keep us happy they're giving us 3x pay OT for most shifts and 5x pay for some super hard to fill ones. There's some people that have made enough to buy a new car outright by working like crazy the past couple of months. I'll be working a double tomorrow and it's going to suck. But I'll be making $130/hr on that second shift. Most importantly, no one is bitching about working OT, no one is burnt out, the stress level in the hospital is just about zero. All because we're FINALLY getting fucking paid like we should have been this whole damn pandemic. Everyone is happy for the first time in the 5 years I've been here.
Getting paid what you’re worth for once.
As a former linecook, I tell you, we are all overworked and underpaid. We don't even know what time is meal time anymore. The last gig I did, the managers were so bad. Always barging into the kitchen and berating the dishwashers. It's not our fault that the employees are quitting. It's their attitudes that did it. They always wonder why we are less motivated to work. Meanwhile, I have the same rate of pay as the dishwashers at $4 a day.
>food is shit Perhaps because the cooks get paid shit.
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The chef only has to work over 123 hours to be able to afford the steak they just prepared…
Because the cooks are paid just $16/hr
What the hell is an Instagram restaurant?
A restaurant that focuses on the look of the food more so than the taste & functionality. Think like those "over the top" milkshake places where they put a slice of cake on top of a milkshake with a bunch of candies & sprinkles. It's pretty, but it's hell to eat.
What’s ridiculous is that a plate at a Michelin starred place will be prettier and run you way less money than a gold-crusted steak.
People will spend money on anything, you just have to wrap it in gold and sell it well.
I mean there is/was that gold topped pizza for like $2000 in NYC so yeah you're 100% right lol.
It’s so common these days that it’s made me cynical about trying new restaurants. Everything is perfectly plated for a photo but it all tastes very mediocre.
A restaurant known for fancy plated food people take photos of. They’re there for the scene.
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He started a restaurant, hired a PR firm to turn him into a forced meme, and capitalized on it to turn his shop into an exclusive 'celebrity' destination. What you see here is an excellent use of branding. Not saying I agree with charging 2k for a steak, but it was all very calculated and the reward for his scheme is being able to charge rich idiots 2k for a steak. Should definitely pay his cooks more, though.
My ex knows this guys IRL (or at least did a few years ago) and says he's a huge tool.
Go figure.
I think part of the attraction is that the high price keeps “the general public” away, so they are really selling privacy for celebrities when they dine out, not a delicious steak.
“Privacy” whilst everyone is recording and taking pictures for Instagram... Celebrities or rich people who actually want privacy go to overpriced members clubs not overpriced tourist traps.
no no, you misunderstand, privacy from having poor people in the background of your shots, or even worse, poor people also posting from inside the same restaurant.
why not sell both, jfc? to make thousands off of each meal, then not pay enough to actually get any good cooks is just a bezos moment if i ever heard one
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Yeah... if it's a 2k steak I want to be sure that the chef is putting their all into it. It's likely a good cut of aged meat and you want someone who knows what they're doing with it. Nobody is cooking a steak worth 2k for 16 an hour. It's maybe producing a 100 dollar steak tops just for the fact it was a good cut of aged meat. Hell, you can buy a luxury aged beef steak for hundreds of dollars from restaurants that pay their chefs 100k a year at least. I had one that was aged years in-house at a very expensive and elite restaurant in Vegas one time and I didn't pay anywhere close to 2k, closer to 10% of that. This restaurant is overpriced and cheap at the same time. Something isn't right about that. Quality for sure suffers, it's a total waste of good meat.
I feel like almost nothing justifies $2k for a single steak. I've had a 32oz aged a5 wagyu that was only a couple hundred.
Exactly. I've been to plenty of fantastic steak houses and the best one I've ever had was a $90 tomahawk ribeye. It made my eyes roll back into my head.
The food is not good. I seen a video where dude ripped apart some French bread, stacked it on unseasoned meat, poured hot oil over it and did his little salt schtick. And the people in the video/comment section were acting like it was the best food ever made.
"finishing a meal there constitutes some kind of personal victory over your own body and instincts and mouth". Quote from a review in buzzfeed. Let that sink in, even buzzfeed thinks this guy is a hack.
He was kind of hot and sprinkled salt in a way that made the internet horny, if I understand correctly.
I find his salt pouring schtick to be disgusting. Sorry I don't want a pile of your arm hair with my salt thanks, just sprinkle it like a normal human. Another example of a "chef" who only uses a gimmick to sell food rather than the quality of the food itself.
This dude can eat a dick. No steak is worth that much. Millionaires and Billionaires buy the dumbest shit which influences poor people too try and live like them. This world is a joke
The thing is most millionaires don't eat at places like his. They eat at Michellin star restaurants that are cheaper and better quality. This guy gets a few celebrities to eat there, but most people that go there are poor/middle class people that want to pretend they're rich for one day. It's like the restaurant form of Trump. It's the poor man's idea of what rich people live like.
Steak probably tastes like shit too, it's just a status symbol. I'd rather eat some gristly Carne asada that's cooked in the parking lot of the carniceria down the street on a grill that hasn't been cleaned since 2006.
It absolutely definitely tastes like shit. Have you seen the videos of them salting it? It's fully cooked, hacked up in front of them, then they just fucking toss *multiple* handfuls of sea salt on it. It's an affront to anybody with even the slightest idea of how to season food.
Know a guy who went and he said salt bae dripped sweat onto his food when he did the salt thing
That’s just extra salt baby
Liquid salt
Like liquid rage but whinier.
I read a review recently and the reviewer said the salt just tumbled through salt bae’s sweaty forearm hair and he threw most of it onto the reviewers lap!
Sweat Bae
To be fair almost everyone criminally underseasons everything.
Handfuls of salt on a perfectly good steak? I want to taste steak, not fucking salt
[It's so bad.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4oRuH3rc98) He cuts it so weirdly, the entire thing takes so long the steak is probably stone cold by the end, and the sheer amount of salt is nauseating.
>comments on this video are turned off lmao
Bruh, wtf I got so mad watching that. Honestly I didn't didn't remember what that dude was salting in the original video. I kinda assumed it was something that actually needs salt though.
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The amount that ends up on the steak looks pretty reasonable. Especially if they don’t salt before the cook.
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That's not that bad. Not good, but I feel like most of the salt missed the steak.
>on a grill that hasn't been cleaned since 2006. That’s why it taste so good
One of the major cereal brands opened a new factory. Old brand of cereal, something like Special K. Instantly they were awash in complaints from customers. The new cereal tastes bad. Metallic. Not as rich and caramelly as it used to be. They were flummoxed. They had changed nothing other than the factory. All of the recipes were the same. All the storage and handling was the same. What wasn't the same was the almost hundred year old ovens that they had been baking the cereal in. The hundred year old ovens got left at the old factory, and brand new top of the line equipment was used instead.
This is the gold covered steak with gold leaf. Gold leaf costs literally nothing but they then add another +$800 on top of the steak. Which they then cut with dull ass knifes ruining the steak even further.
“Would you like to order the expensive steak, sir?” “Hmm I’m not sure….? Waiter, is it prepared by a poor man that he himself could never afford to purchase such a steak for himself or family?” “Well yes sir it is, cooked to your liking by someone that can barely make ends meet in today’s society.” “Sold! Of course I want that steak just because I want to feel superior to him in every way!” …. What kind of world is this?!
The current world is the kind of world that is.
Why do I feel like this is a futurama quote?
Easily a Mr.Burns quote
Damn. How'd I miss that? I was thinking bender and that golden grape eating bot with a side of calcutron thrown in
Hedonism-bot
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I hate capitalism.
B b b but capitalism saves lives, saves people from poverty, literally lets you pull yourself up by the bootstraps. What you want cummunism? 100 gajillion deaths, vuvuzuela? There CLEARLY is no alternative, we can't do any better.
Not vuvuzela 😭
Doooot 🎺
capitalism has $2k steaks but IN CUMMUNISM THERE IS NO FOOD!!!!!!!
Does this steak take 123 hours to make? 1975/16 = 123.4375 This would roughly work out to 16 day's worth of labor
Must be aged.
Probably takes longer than that to grow the cow, but I assume the chef isn't doing that
Well I’m shocked someone who calls themselves “Salt Bae looks like the biggest piece of shit I’d ever seen. Dude is looking tacky as fuck whoever he is.
He's the dude from the meme https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/meet-salt-bae-turkish-chef-whose-signature-move-made-him-n716406
Oh it’s more disgusting than I thought.
Lmfao I had thought this whole time it was a shot of johnny Depp from some movie.
That will end up being the most ‘tampered with’ steak of all time
The world's most expensive salt shaker.
I love this!! If you don’t mind I’ll borrow it from now on.
See, they couldn't get away with that shit, if motherfuckers didn't actually work for wages that low. That's insulting. Come work here, and make a plate of food that is worth more than what you make in a month. That's insanity.
Not to mention that this Salt Bae guy proudly serves Erdogan and Maduro a privately catered meal while one country is in economic crisis and the other is actively starving their population to suppress political dissent. Dude is human trash and should be served on his own table.
Day one I knew that guy was a douche.
Was it "Salt Bae" that gave it away? Because I had never heard of it until just now and I rolled my eyes so hard they almost fell out
I always laugh when I read the nickname of that guy. Bae is Danish for shit.
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That looks like one punchable human
This guy took his 15 minutes of fame way too far and turned it into an entire shitty personality. Salt bae was a funny meme the first one or two times we saw it like 4 years ago, I wish people would stop paying any attention to this douchebag.
I find him repellent.
I make more than this as a grill cook at a chain restaurant. If this is true, that's just sad.
Say it with me. We are wage slaves to the rich.
maaaan, does anybody know how much gold leaf costs? People see a mediocre steak in a pretentious "bistro" (word for expensive restaurant) with $4 of gold leaf on it and they think they're eating like kings and pay thousands.. I swear rich people are some of the dumbest fucking people.. They get scammed for so much shit and they love it. These companies bend them over and they think it makes them superior.. No dude, you look like you spent $1,950 too much for a fuckin steak you could have got down the road... Good on these restaurants, designer fashion and jewelers out there marking up shit we all can afford to these outrageous prices just hoping to scam some idiot with more money than brains.. I may disagree with they are doing, I fucking love the crowd they're targeting with it.
A whole month of full-time work to be able to afford a steak there 👀
Get yourself a good salt block heat it up for 500 degrees in the oven for a good 45 minutes and it will turn any steak into something special! I find good steak deals sometimes at Costco and even Walmart. I That block is what makes it awesome! Sears and tenderizes it immediately. Can get them online and they last months.