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Salt Bae restaurant boss claims £1,450 steaks and £10k bottles of wine are completely normal for London 🤷‍♀️

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💸The manager of Salt Bae's much-ridiculed Nusr-Et Steakhouse in London has spoken out for the first time - defending its insane prices.

💸After opening its doors to Londoners in September, the restaurant has come under fire with diners complaining of £37,000 bills.

Salt Bae - whose real name is Nusret Gökçe - is a Turkish chef and social media star who went viral for his seductive meat seasoning in 2017.

Mr Mehmed said the Knightsbridge restaurant serves the best meat in the world and backlash over five figure bills is "just talk."

"People have complained because they have seen bills on social media for people who’ve paid £10,000 for a bottle of wine."

"But you can find these prices all around London. The service and the quality we are providing is extremely high."

Mr Mehmed said the most popular dish is Tomahawk steak, which can be covered in gold leaf for up to £1,450.

But he said the gold leaf makes no difference to meat: "It doesn't improve the taste or change the quality."

🥩Mr Mehmed said it is popular because of its great taste and because it is the piece of meat that made Mr Nusret famous after a video of him salting one went viral.

🥩He added: "The gold steak is something different, it’s the best in London."

Despite their world-class skills, staff at the restaurant are paid pennies in comparison to the cost of the food...

One of their toilet attendants would need to work for three weeks to afford a gold steak and a chef's hourly wage equates to a side of mashed potato.

Would you try the infamous gold steak?