Salt Bae feeding Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta steak becomes ‘embarrassing’ internet meme | indy100

Arsenal manager spotted eating steak straight from Salt Bae's fork

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Another day, another public figure made headlines by paying Salt Bae (real name Nusret Gökçe) a visit at one of his restaurants.

Following in the footsteps of Gemma Collins, Piers Morgan and Donald Trump Jr, Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has bought food from the Turkish social media star’s infamously extortionate menu.

In footage which surfaced on social media on Saturday (13 January), Arteta can be seen watching Gökçe slice up some steak before letting Salt Bae place a piece of the meat into his mouth.

Arteta visited Gökçe’s Nusr-et steakhouse in Dubai, where the most expensive item from the grill is a golden giant tomahawk steak at 5,000 dirham (around £1,068).

In the UK, the London restaurant sparked outrage for charging £11 for a Red Bull and £630 for a steak, but it didn’t stop them from raking in a reported £7 million in sales in the first three months after it opened in September 2021.

The boss of the Knightbridge venue defended the prices, saying “some people, they want to just talk”, though it was later ranked 17,423rd out of 17,493 London restaurants on Tripadvisor.

Ouch.

As for the Arsenal manager’s visit, social media users have slammed him for visiting the restaurant, with one joking it was a “sackable offence”:

NOOOOO. MIKEL. DON\xe2\x80\x99T EAT THE STEAK OFF SALT BAE\xe2\x80\x99S FORK, THEY\xe2\x80\x99LL MEME YOU MIKEL NOOOOOOO
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The moment you realise Salt Bae doesn't even know how to cook a steak and you've been had
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I\xe2\x80\x99d give a 6 point deduction to anyone who eats some steak straight from the Salt Bae fork. Feels worse than an FFP breach
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Mikel Arteta playing along with Salt Bae\xe2\x80\x99s performative steak cutting. I love how the final shot just says: GRISTLE.
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Arsenal fans going to war to defend Mikel Arteta being fed overpriced steak by that Salt Bae bloke are cracking me up. \xf0\x9f\x98\x82\xf0\x9f\x98\x82\xf0\x9f\x98\x82
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Between Salt Bae and the tooth brushing it\xe2\x80\x99s been an irredeemable few days for two of our London clubs
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Arteta eating steak straight off Salt Bae\xe2\x80\x99s fork should be a sackable offence in my opinion. \xf0\x9f\x8d\xb4\xf0\x9f\xa5\xa9
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\xf0\x9f\x92\xad Imagine your coach getting caught being fed by Salt Bae.
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I long for the day there\xe2\x80\x99s footage of Salt Bae feeding someone steak off his meat cutlass and them spitting it out and going \xe2\x80\x98that\xe2\x80\x99s fucking horrible, that\xe2\x80\x99
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They gonna be using that Salt Bae and Arteta meme whenever Arsenal hold an L. I hate it over here \xf0\x9f\x98\xad\xf0\x9f\x98\xad\xf0\x9f\x98\xad
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Overelaborate, theatrical, overpriced, inauthentic and lacking any real substance\n\nAnd don\xe2\x80\x99t get me started on Salt Bae
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Salt Bae has also raised eyebrows and made the news in other ways, such as the “cringe” way he says the word “avocado”, pretending to sprinkle salt on the World Cup trophy, and having his London restaurant targeted by Animal Rebellion protesters.

In February last year, he was praised for pledging to help “5,000 people every day” who were affected by the earthquake in Turkey.

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