After struggling for more than a year with wildly fluctuating revenues, Stolik financial backer Mike Chen has flatlined the upscale restaurant and über-hip poseur lounge at Fairmount and Cedar Springs to reconcept the corpse. He will bring in chef Tim Byres, founder of the defunct Deep Ellum restaurant Standard 2706, as a profit-sharing employee and rename the restaurant Standard in his honor. Chen says he's scrapping the lounge, expanding the kitchen by a third and tearing out the wine racks on the upper level to make room for a small bar in an effort to tighten the focus on dining. Restaurateur Patrick Colombo (Ferre, Cru), who runs Chen's restaurant Steel, will get a grip on the restaurant's operations, and Chen says he hopes to retain Stolik General Manager Erika Ramelli and chef Francisco Mendonca. Standard should open sometime in February... Cory Garrison, formerly of Lola and Nana, is the new sous chef at Avner Samuel's Aurora... Eddie Merlot's, the feminized (think non-meat peachy pink) steak house that went into the Timpano Italian Chophouse location in Frisco just more than a year ago, has shut down.