Dean Fearing will help, but he won’t be the chef at a new hotel in Fort Worth

Bud Kennedy
·2 min read

Prize-winning Dallas chef Dean Fearing will not be the signature personality at a Fort Worth hotel restaurant after all.

Fearing, the chef in Dallas’ Ritz-Carlton, will help design and open the restaurant in the new Crescent Fort Worth hotel but another chef will lead the Mediterranean food restaurant, chairman John Goff said.

Fearing, 67, considered a co-founder of “Southwestern cuisine” in his 30-plus years at the Mansion on Turtle Creek and the Ritz-Carlton, was already busy with multiple projects last fall.

Then an adult son. Campbell Fearing, was diagnosed with leukemia.

Chef Dean Fearing at Fearings in the Ritz-Carlton Dallas on Thursday August 2, 2007.
Chef Dean Fearing at Fearings in the Ritz-Carlton Dallas on Thursday August 2, 2007.

A recent drive tried to identify a potential stem cell donor for Campbell, a server at a Dallas restaurant, Lovers Seafood.

Dean Fearing has been “very involved” with designing the Crescent Fort Worth restaurant and “will be part of getting it launched and open” but will not be the signature chef, Goff said.

“For him, traveling back and forth is going to be so tough,” Goff said.

“This is going to be a big operation.”

A rendering of the hotel.
A rendering of the hotel.

Fearing consulted on another Tarrant County hotel dining operation: Sky Creek Kitchen + Bar, a Southwestern restaurant at the Delta Hotels by Marriott Dallas Southlake.

The Crescent Fort Worth is a 200-room luxury hotel with adjacent office space and apartments under construction at 833 Van Cliburn Way, on the corner at Camp Bowie Boulevard across from the Kimbell Art Museum.

The restaurant’s Mediterranean-Tuscan theme would appeal to international tourists as well as local diners and group events such as weddings and receptions.

Chef Dean Fearing in the kitchen at Fearings in the Ritz-Carlton Dallas on Thursday August 2, 2007.
Chef Dean Fearing in the kitchen at Fearings in the Ritz-Carlton Dallas on Thursday August 2, 2007.

“It’ll be a Mediterranean-leaning menu but with something for everybody,” Goff said.

Another signature hotel restaurant is expected to open nearby inside the new Bowie House, Auberge Resorts Collection, an 88-room hotel, 3700 Camp Bowie Blvd.

The Bowie House has offered no more details. (That hotel’s website literally calls it simply “A Signature Restaurant.”)

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