NEW YORK — Halfway through dinner, my lap was speckled with white crystals of salt dropped from the right hand of Salt Bae himself. Salt Bae hadn’t meant to salt my trousers, as far as I could tell.

He was the quirky chef who became an internet sensation thanks to his unique style of sprinkling salt on meat and built a commercial property empire upon it.

Salt Bae is no longer the viral phenomenon that he once was. And that, unfortunately, isn’t good for business. The closure of Salt Bae Burger follows the restaurant’s tenuous run in the city over the ...

On March 18, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit 1 upheld a district court’s decision 2 that an 18% service fee charged at the upscale Miami steakhouse of celebrity chef Nusret ...

Be prepared to fork over some serious cash to dine at his restaurant. Back in 2017, Turkish chef Nusret Gökçe became an internet sensation after video of him sprinkling salt on his steak went viral, ...

Fame is fleeting, and it seems like Salt Bae is learning that the hard way. The onetime internet sensation has closed another of his New York restaurants, Eater NY reported on Tuesday. Salt Bae’s Nusr ...