Turkish chef Nusret Gökçe became an Internet sensation in 2017 — earning the moniker “Salt Bae” — when a video of him sprinkling salt over some meat that he’d just deftly cut went viral. However, ...

Salt Bae dominated our social media feeds back in 2017 – but what has the meme chef been up to in recent years? Here's ...

Donald Trump Jr. uploaded two memes on Instagram on July 4 of his father, United States President Donald Trump. One of the memes portrayed Donald Trump as the beloved internet icon Salt Bae, which was ...

It was Salt Bae’s 14th restaurant, and it wasn’t even the first to serve a gold-wrapped steak. When Turkish chef Nusret Gökçe opened the doors to his London eatery Nusr-Et in September after two years ...

Nusret Gökçe, better known by his internet meme alias of Salt Bae, finally opened his long awaited Nusr-Et Steakhouse in New York City in mid-January. The second U.S. location — and 13th worldwide — ...

Monica Burton is the former deputy editor of Eater.com where she covered restaurants and food culture from 2017 to 2025. Salt Bae was perhaps the meme of 2017. The image of Nusret Gökçe’s slicked back ...

It all began in 2017 with a single flick of the wrist. Nusret Gokce, already running a steakhouse in Turkey, posted a video of himself slicing meat with the precision of a samurai and finishing with ...