Chef Rocco DiSpirito’s Standard Grill comeback is over.
The celeb chef has parted ways with the Meatpacking District eatery after he made a comeback last year following his 15-year hiatus from restaurant kitchens. He arrived as the hotel eatery celebrated its 10th anniversary.
A foodie tipster told Page Six on Wednesday that diners with reservations were called on Tuesday and informed that DiSpirito would not be in the kitchen.
The source said an alternate menu was being offered to “any guests that still chose to show up for their dinner reservations.”
A rep for the Standard commented: “We are parting ways mutually and amicably.”
But the statement further made DiSpirito’s involvement sound like a temporary run for the restaurant’s anniversary.
“We are grateful for the culinary vision chef DiSpirito brought to our kitchens during our 10 year anniversary,” said the statement. “We admire his talent and wish him the best as he works on new ventures rooted in the kitchen. We are honored to have worked with him on this exclusive collaboration.”
He told The Post earlier this year: “I’m not intentionally trying to reclaim anything … My strong desire to combine what I write about in my cookbooks with restaurants is the driver here. It’s my way of contributing something new and important to the world of fine dining.”
He added he was brought onboard in 2018 to upgrade all of the Standard Meatpacking hotel’s food venues, and began as the Standard Grill’s head chef in October 2018.
DiSpirito was the wunderkind behind one-time hot spot Union Pacific, which opened in 1997, but he flamed out with a much-maligned early 2000s reality show, “The Restaurant.”
At DiSpirito’s reimagined Standard Grill, The Post said he was “serving the Meatpacking District’s best American dishes,” and the New York Times gave him two stars.