[arista]

[A Sunday lunchtime and I am sitting outside
a restaurant in London’s Knightsbridge
famed for serving a £1,450 steak,
eating an £8.50 kebab. I have brought my
own table, chair and chequered tablecloth.
It’s a ludicrous gesture, but then the
Nusr-Et Steakhouse is a ludicrous restaurant,
and one stupid turn deserves another.
Still, I’m certain that I am eating better
than all the customers through the
huge wooden doors behind me,
spaffing their sticky largesse over
gold-leaf wrapped steaks.
Because my lamb shawarma comes from
the legendary Kebab Kid in Parsons Green,
and very nice it is, too.

The Nusr-Et Steakhouse, inside the
Park Tower Hotel, is the latest opening
from Turkish butcher-turned steak monger
Nusret Gökçe, better known as Salt Bae.
A few years ago, a video of his signature
steak salting move went viral.
He was pictured in a tight white
T-shirt and dark glasses,
sprinkling salt down his muscular forearm
as if proving he could both season the beef
and pop an ovary in one move.
Imagine Rod Hull’s Emu, bare naked and
disgracing himself by vomiting down
his own neck.

Salt Bae, which means Salt Baby, was born.
He now has 38m followers on Instagram.
If you were looking for something to
illustrate the male terror of sexual inadequacy,
a Salt Bae video would serve beautifully.
He wields knives.
He likes to be photographed bare-chested.]

https://www.theguardian.com/food/202...-et-steakhouse

https://www.instagram.com/p/CVH0-rgocDI/

[Cherie]

great article...some people really have more money than sense

[arista]

[smudgie]

The kebab looks awful.

[arista]

Tastes Great, Though