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Dean Fearing will receive an “Pioneer of American Cuisine” award from the Culinary Institute of America in March.

Fearing, along with peers Larry Forgione, Wolfgang Puck, Paul Prudhomme, and Alice Waters, will be recognized by the CIA during their 2012 Leadership Awards Galas on March 29 in New York.

“I am thrilled and so grateful to be selected for this amazing award and, especially, to be included alongside names like Alice Waters, Wolfgang Puck, Paul Prudhomme and Larry Forgione,” said Dean Fearing in a press release. “I benefited tremendously from the education I received at CIA, and I hope that many aspiring young chefs will benefit from the scholarship funds to be raised on this upcoming evening. There’s no better way to learn the art of food than at this remarkable institution.”

Right after the gala, Fearing will travel to Japan to recreate his Dallas spot, Fearing’s Restaurant, inside the Towers Grill at The Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo. Recipes from Fearing will be featured from April 2-6 at the hotel, with Fearing himself on site to welcome guests.

Then it’s back to Dallas in time for the traditional Easter Brunch at Fearing’s in The Ritz-Carlton, Dallas. That brunch will run from 11:15 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday, April 8. Reservations are available at 214-922-4848.

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#1 List Ranking in DFW on Southwestern Cuisine, Brunch, Meet For A Drink, People Watching, Trendy and Uptown Location by Zagat Texas Restaurants Survey

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When you’re traveling for business and the location for lunch is up to you, where you decide to eat can be just as vital as what you talk about between bites. After all, sitting in a dining room full of other thriving movers and shakers just may help you seal the deal. Here’s our coast-to-coast list of 10 top restaurants with profiles as high as the clientele who dines there.

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Fearing’s: As home to AT&T, Southwest Airlines and Texas Instruments, Dallas has no shortage of business elite. Fearing’s, inside The Ritz-Carlton, Dallas, is a midday mecca for power brokers—by noon the Southwestern restaurant is buzzing with orders for celebrity chef Dean Fearing’s famous tortilla soup and Dublin Dr. Pepper-braised short ribs. Each of the multiple dining rooms has a different feel—for a casual and lively lunch, sit in Dean’s Kitchen, and for an upscale, elegant meal, head to the Gallery.

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Dean Fearing has been the — so sorry — dean of Dallas chefs for north of 20 years, but this isn’t a nostalgia award. Fearing deserves renewed recognition because he truly is the city’s once and future best chef. Fearing is consistency personified, as he delivers some of the nation’s, let alone Big D’s, most palate-popping cooking. And the thing of it is, he doesn’t have to. After he cooked his last lobster taco at the Mansion, Fearing could have moseyed off in his Lucchese boots, secure in his place in the firmament of great Dallas chefs. Instead, he rose up like a fire-roasted phoenix four years ago with his eponymous restaurant, Fearing’s. Since then, his has become, according to no less a snooty authority than The New York Times, one of the “top 10” tables in the entire country, which, Governor Rick Perry’s secessionist dreams aside, still includes Dallas. Fearing deserves this crown because instead of resting on his considerable laurels (“Table of the Year” per Esquire, Zagat’s No. 1 hotel dining spot in all of United States) his restaurant produces some of the city’s few truly destination dishes: Buffalo tenderloin, marinated longer than most marriages, or a Gulf shrimp taco doing a tangy tango with pickled onion and mango. It’s all enough to reaffirm Fearing’s place as the country’s preeminent avatar (sorry Bobby Flay) for Southwestern cuisine at its most haute.