Celebrity chef Bobby Marcotte, known for his appearances on the Food Network and for winning national culinary awards, had plans to open a new restaurant at the former Getty Station on Islington Street in Portsmouth. But the city’s board of adjustment had other ideas.

The board on Aug. 19 wouldn’t OK Marcotte’s plan to open an eatery at the former gas station, saying the proposed restaurant would have to be limited to a 50-person occupancy because that’s the maximum allowed at the site under city zoning rules.

Marcotte — owner of Tuckaway Tavern and Butchery in Raymond and Hop + Grind in Durham — told the Portsmouth Herald that he put an end to his plan because the 50-person limit was “not enough for us.”

He said the planned restaurant was to have a “total Asian-Spanish fusion concept.”