Chef Sean Brock is ending his relationship with McCrady’s and McCrady’s Tavern, the two Neighborhood Dining Group restaurants found only in Charleston, and will no longer be involved with the group’s Minero, according to a statement issued jointly by Brock and the company, The Post and Courier reported Wednesday.

Brock will take the title of “founding chef and culinary advisor” at the group’s Husk restaurants in Charleston, Nashville, Savannah and Greenville, which will keep their kitchen teams, according to the statement. He plans to focus on independent restaurant projects in Nashville.

“I have full confidence in these chefs and know that they will continue to deliver the creative, locally focused, ingredient-driven cuisine that our guests have enjoyed at the restaurants over the years,” Brock said in the statement.

Brock was in Sweden on Wednesday and could not be reached for comment, the newspaper reported.

Minero Charleston has promoted Wes Grubbs to executive chef, and Orlando Pagan will take the same role at McCrady’s Tavern. Jim Stein, named chef de cuisine of McCrady’s tasting menu counter in May, will be executive chef of McCrady’s. Travis Grimes will continue running the kitchen at Husk Charleston, according to The Post and Courier.

“Working with Neighborhood Dining Group and alongside Chef Brock for the past 12 years has been an incredible experience, allowing me to grow as a chef and leader with his mentorship,” Grimes said in a statement provided by a publicist.

McCrady’s then-owners, Greenbax Enterprises, hired Brock away from Nashville’s Hermitage Hotel in 2006. Neighborhood Dining Group, founded in 2001 by David Howard, bought the restaurant a few weeks later, the newspaper reported. Brock won the James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef Southeast award in 2010, and Husk opened on Queen Street that fall.

Since then, Brock has overseen the openings of six more restaurants and the transformation of McCrady’s into McCrady’s Tavern, and has been nominated four times for the foundation’s Outstanding Chef award, according to The Post and Courier. Minero opened on East Bay Street in 2014 as a casual taqueria.

Glenn Roberts of Anson Mills, a close collaborator, guessed at the reason for the move.

“It sounds to me like Sean’s got a big project planned,” Roberts said.