Salt Bae needs to dish up vegan food, say sit-in protesters

CHARGING £1,500 for a gold-plated steak is “disgusting”, Animal Rebellion has said, as they demanded Salt Bae serves vegan food after they targeted his Knightsbridge steak restaurant.

Members of the protest group were thrown out of the Nusr-et steakhouse after sitting at tables that were already reserved at about 6pm on Saturday.

Yesterday a spokesman for the offshoot of Extinction Rebellion said Salt Bae, whose real name is Nusret Gokce, and rose to fame for online videos of him theatrically sprinkling salt on to his dishes, was “emblematic” of inequality.

He said: “We are calling for a world where Salt Bae’s restaurant is serving delicious plant-based food and we don’t see these drastic divides.

“I would say these high-end restaurants, his chief example among them, represent this divide: charging £1,500 for a gold-plated steak whilst millions of people can’t put food on the table.

“I feel particularly in this case, there’s ludicrous, decadent prices, the reported treatment of staff, and I don’t need to mention the needless exploitation and deaths of animals for the product.

“I would say it is representative of the way in which the world is. You could say it’s disgusting in that sense.”

The restaurant opened last year and its most expensive item is a £1,450 “giant tomahawk” steak, which is covered with gold leaf.

Animal Rebellion did not attempt to contact Mr Gokce before its protest, claiming its “sit-in... has put our cards on the table, so to speak ”.

The owners of Nusr-et were contacted for comment.