‘Salt Bae’’s Turkish Steakhouse Looks Like It’s Opening in Dallas Soon

So far, many of the details about viral chef Salt Bae’s upcoming Dallas steakhouse have been gleaned from his Instagram Stories. That’s fitting for Salt Bae aka Nusret Gökçe, a Turkish butcher, chef, and restaurateur with more than 20 million followers on Instagram.

Eater deduced in October that his Turkish steakhouse Nusr-Et will be located within a gleaming Arts District high-rise at 1900 Pearl Street. Now more concrete details are appearing about Gökçe’s Dallas plans.

According to a sales tax permit application filed with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Nusr-Et will likely open in early summer — the permit becomes active on May 31. There’s also a Craigslist post up right now seeking an executive chef for a “meat-centric restaurant” from a “celebrity chef” that will debut in “summer 2019.”

The road’s been a bit bumpy for Gökçe lately, from protests last September at his Miami steakhouse after he hosted Venezuelan’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro for dinner to a lawsuit in January alleging wage theft to debt problems with the Turkish holding group that owns his steakhouse chain.

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