A self-taught chef’s tiny restaurant has been shut down after he ran it out of his apartment without permits.
Alex Cheah ran Teishoku Tuesdays out of his 43rd-storey, one-bedroom apartment without a restaurant permit or liquor licence before the City of Melbourne forced it to stop.
”That came as a surprise to me because I had no idea that I was breaking any sort of law because I was just cooking for people,” he said.
“I wasn’t really making a lot of money out of it either, I was only doing one day a week.”
Teishoku Tuesdays ran once a week for six months before the council shut it down.
The restaurant served two people at a time a spread of authentic Japanese food for $70 per person, with a 1000-person waitlist.
Melbourne’s smallest restaurant is now closed, but Cheah is undertaking chef courses and is trying to find a new location to run his restaurant with the correct permits.
