Anyone willing to spend $100k on a meal at a half-baked celebrity like Salt Bae's restaurant deserves the hefty check.
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The celebrity chef, known for sprinkling salt in a weird way, and charging exorbitant prices for meals is a hack. Turkish-born Salt Bae, AKA Nusret Gökçe, is milking social media influencers, and people with more money than sense, for everything they're worth.
However, Salt Bae's recent social media post got a bit of hate after he showed off a $100k bill. The meal was eaten at the Dubai branch of his restaurants and totaled 398630 UAE dirhams. The customer managed to blow enough money to feed a family for a year on one single meal.
The $100k bill includes some of Salt Bae's signature dishes, all typically covered in gold to mask the mediocre flavor. The list includes 'Golden Steaks' that run up the bill by $1400. There is also $1200 'Golden Baklava' on the bill. When it turns out Salt Bae's been using lead instead of gold on his food it's going to be a bad day for influencers.
People Unimpressed With Salt Bae's $100k Bill
Because Salt Bae's not a real professional chef and is instead just a honey pot for social media obsession, he has no dignity when it comes to bragging. However, this kind of showboating doesn't impress people much.
The huge bill has people talking, but most are critics. Sure, you can spend a fortune at a high-end restaurant, but make sure it's food worth spending money on. Any meal that is covered in gold is more about the appearance than the flavor. Salt Bae's $100k charge had the people talking.
As one commenter pointed out "With that money that you paid to that shoddy chef, you pay another chef that there are many better than this salt... what this one does is throw salt on the food and make clowning around but nothing... there are chefs much better than him and they are anonymous." There are better ways to spend that money, but they won't give you the internet clout.
Many people criticized the wastefulness of the meal. There were strong opinions on how that money could have been spent elsewhere, helping charities, or feeding the poor. But, I think, if you're rich enough to spend that on a meal, you should go right ahead. However, if it's Salt Bae's restaurant you're spending it in, you might have just wasted the price of a house.
