Why is This Man Smiling?

Because his restaurant was just named the best in America.  Which has more to do with Dean Fearing's rock-star persona than his $22 crab cakes.  By Nancy Nichols  Dean Fearing is currently the most famous chef in Dallas, lauded nationally and beloved loca ...

In Dean’s Image

Kitchen Spy In creating a namesake restaurant, exuberant Dallas chef Dean Fearing made “no rules” the one rule he follows.  Katherine Gregor reports. “I didn’t want to go down any old roads, I wanted to blaze new trails,” drawls Texas chef-celebre Dean ...

Recipe for reinvention

By BILL ADDISON / Restaurant Critic How does a celebrity chef unshackle himself from flattering but limiting perceptions to reinvent his future? And how, in the process, can he captivate a fresh culinary audience without alienating a generation of longti ...

Dean Fearing’s Dallas Thanksgiving

by Alison Cook Chef Dean Fearing’s one-of-a-kind laugh reverberates through the north Dallas mansion where he has gathered friends and family together for Thanksgiving dinner.  Part Woody Woodpecker cackle, part good ol’ boy guffaw, the sound bounces off ...

Texas Festivities

by Judy Wiley If you're not planning on being in a cooking mood for Thanksgiving, or want to get out of town between then and Christmas, you have Texas options near and far. Some of them: The Ritz-Carlton, Dallas: Fearing's will serve a prix fixe menu f ...

The fabulous Flavors of Fearing’s

By Christine Perez The expectations were high for Fearing’s, the new restaurant within the Ritz-Carlton Hotel & Residences in Uptown. But somehow, celebrity chef Dean Fearing has found a way to exceed them. Besides scrumptious fare, the restaurant o ...