Rocco DiSpirito is back with his first Big Apple restaurant in six years — and it’s about time.
Bar Rocco (32 W. 48th St.) is a proudly old-school Italian American restaurant on the Kimpton Era Hotel’s second floor. It’s plain wonderful, thanks to DiSpirito’s skills, which first wowed the city at French-American Union Pacific in the late 1990s. It also makes use of better ingredients than ordinary red-sauce places.
DiSpirito’s last gig in the city was at the Standard Grill. He was there for barely two years before Covid-19 struck in 2020. He’s been all over the map since then with more books (bringing the total to fifteen) and TV appearances (too many even for AI to keep track of). But, except for his summer Pop-Up by Rocco in Southampton, his hands-on magic has been sorely missing.
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