Salt Bae, who is the chef who tried to steal the World Cup

Nusret Gökçe, in art Salt Baewas born on August 9, 1983 in Erzurum, the city of Turkey Oriental, and is a restaurateur and entrepreneur. Leaving school due to the financial hardships in which his family fell, he became an apprentice butcher in Istanbul

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Beginning in 2007, he visits several countries, including Argentina and the United States, where he works for free in local restaurants to gain experience as a cook and restaurateur. In the 2010 he returns to Istanbul and opens his own there first restaurant. In the 2014 starts his own super-luxury steak house chain named after him Nusr-Et inaugurating a Dubai his second restaurant

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Over the years his franchise expands more and more, reaching altitude 22 venues around the worldalso touching cities such as Abu Dhabi, Doha, Las Vegas, Jeddah, London, Mykonos, Miami, New York and Los Angeles

There international fame arrives on January 7th 2017 thanks to a video, called “Ottoman Steak”, published on the profile Twitter of your restaurant. In the clip she sliced ​​pieces of meat and sprinkled them with salt in a particular way: placing it with her fingertips on her forearm and then dropping it on the plate

Totaling 10 million views and becoming the protagonist of many memesGökçe has earned a certain notoriety coming to serve a large number of celebrities and politicians

Al Pacino, David Beckham, Leo Messi, Naomi Campbell, Neymar, Andrea Bocelli, Roberto Mancini and Cesc Fabregas are just some of the celebrity that the chef hosted in his restaurants

These names are not surprising. THE prices of his dishes, in fact, are dizzying. The trademark of the chain, the meatit costs even more than 2000 euros per portion. The results are often exorbitant receiptslike the one from 161 thousand euros recorded last November in Abu Dhabi restaurant

In addition to cooking Salt Bae has a passion for luxury car hey motorboats. One of his favorite cars is the Rolls Royce Cullinan. A passion that he can afford by virtue of his own heritage from 70 million euros

Last Sunday, the chef made a lot of headlines again when, after Argentina’s victory in the final of the World Cup in Qatar against France, it is took to the field to take part in the celebrations with the Albiceleste players

After the hail of criticism and having violated all Fifa protocolsthe latter has decided to undertake ainvestigation against himconsidering his behavior unacceptable

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