Chef Smelly's Creole and Soul Food has won multiple "best of" awards for dishes including Dungeness crab with garlic noodles and blackened prawns.
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But Chef Smelly doesn't have a brick and mortar restaurant.
For the past three years, he's been serving on Fridays at Complex nightclub in Oakland, until this week when the county visited Complex.
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"The owner was sent a cease and desist note, and with that note he could have lost his liquor license if he kept letting us use the kitchen for our pop-up restaurant," Chef Smelly, whose real name is Edward Wooley, explained.
Alameda County officials hope to establish a permit process for pop-ups by January.