Rocco DiSpirito Is Coming to Denver for Two Events With Troy Guard

Rocco DiSpirito rose to fame in the early 2000s as the chef at New York City's Union Pacific and the star of television's first hospitality-focused reality series,The Restaurant. Today, the cookbook author and TV personality is focusing on healthy eating with Made by Rocco, the very small-scale meal delivery service he launched as a way to demonstrate the efficacy of the diet he wrote about in his 2014 book, The Pound a Day Diet.

But in June, he's going back to his decadent restaurant roots — for one night, anyway — thanks to restaurateur Troy Guard, whose TAG Restaurant Group includes Los Chingones and Guard and Grace, among others. Guard first crossed paths with DiSpirito in the late ’90s, when both were working in New York City; they recently reconnected through mutual friends.