Fearings has a Very Successful Restaurant Week!

Fearing’s has concluded another successful Restaurant Week, and the numbers are in!

Within eight hours from opening our books, Fearing’s sold out the entire week. Those guests ordered 2,000 gallons of the famous Tortilla Soup and 1,400 pounds of Dublin Dr. Pepper Braised Short Ribs, not to even mention all the Mesquite Grilled Nova Scotia Salmon and Smokey Chili Caesar Salad!
We are proud to announce a donation of almost $10,000 to the North Texas Food Bank for Restaurant Week 2009! Thank you, Dallas!

Fearing’s named one of the world’s Top 10 Hotel Restaurants!

Each year, 10 great hotel restaurants are selected by a distinguished panel of judges made up of well-traveled hospitality professionals from all over the world. Winners receive a porcelain brule parfum from HOTELS magazine and sponsor Villeroy & Boch.

Meals served: Breakfast, lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch
Seats: 379: Dean’s Kitchen (64), Gallery (52), Sendero (54) and Ocaso (50), plus private dining spaces and bars
Average check: Unknown
Chef/culinary team: Chef/Partner Dean Fearing, Chef de Cuisine Eric Dreyer
Menu: Elevated American cuisine—”Bold Flavors, No Borders,” and a focus on Texas’ local ingredients
Sample menu items: Tortilla soup; barbecued shrimp taco; maple-black peppercorn-soaked buffalo tenderloin; and pan-roasted BBQ-spiced filet and chicken-fried Maine lobster
Standout features: High ceilings, detailed millwork, Jerusalem limestone, giant live oak trees with outdoor fireplace, extensive waterworks and 6,000 bottles of boutique and rare-vintage wines in the wine cellar
What makes it great: “Last meal-worthy” cuisine; seven indoor/outdoor dining settings, including Rattlesnake Bar (serving premium tequilas), Live Oak Bar (with outdoor fireplace), The Gallery (formal), The Sendero (glass pavilion with removable walls), Ocaso patio (walled-in garden) the Wine Cellar (private dining), Dean’s Kitchen (dining room built around kitchen)
Other recognition: Named America’s “Restaurant of the Year” by Esquire magazine in 2007; Named No. 1 in hotel dining byZagat’s 2009 U.S. Hotels, Resorts and Spas Survey

Fearing’s named in Diner’s Choice Top 50 Best American Cuisine 2010 by OpenTable

What better way to celebrate our nation’s birthday than to eat American food? Fortunately, OpenTable has a bevy of amazing restaurants serving our nation’s cuisine. To help you find the perfect spot, OpenTable diners have chosen their Top 50 American restaurants.

From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans white with foam, you don’t have to go far from where you live to find amazing American cuisine. So why not dine American tonight? Being patriotic has never tasted so good!

See list here.

Fearing’s romantic “Sendero” dining room featured in Dallas Modern Luxury

“Even Dean Fearing, who knows a thing or two about special occasion restaurants, describes The Sendero glass pavilion at Fearing’s as the “coziest, almost sexiest room I could ever think of in Dallas.” What’s all garden-y and girlfriends’ lunch during the day turns romantic at night, with flattering glows from the 750-piece Murano chandelier, intimate seating on leather settees and breezes from the canyon created by the Uptown skyline. At a recent dinner, a poker-faced waiter presented dessert to a young woman—-a diamond ring embedded in rose petals. “Oh my God!,” she said. He proposed on bended knee, she said “yes,” everyone applauded and the couple kissed to seal the deal. Tableside romance doesn’t get any better.” – Dallas Modern Luxury, July 2009

See the magazine online here, pp. 76-77.