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For media inquiries, email pr@fearrington.com or call 919.542.4000
For media inquiries, email pr@fearrington.com or call 919.542.4000
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Chef Bedford, Now Grand Chef

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Press Releases

Colin Bedford Returns to Fearrington After International Culinary Event
(4/30/2013)

Fearrington House Executive Chef to Cook at
Relais & Chateaux Grand Chef Dinner (4/17/2013)

Fearrington House Executive Chef Colin Bedford Earns
International Culinary Distinction (11/12/2012)

Dovecote Releases 2012 Trunk Show Schedule (9/10/2012)

Fearrington House Ranked Nation’s Top Luxury Hotel for Weddings (4/27/2012)

The Fearrington House Inn Celebrates its Silver Anniversary (1/18/2012)

The Fearrington House Voted a Top 100 Best Restaurant Nationally for 2011 (12/13/2011)

The Fearrington House Receives Relais & Chateaux’s 2012 Garden Award (12/5/2011)

The Fearrington House Inn Named Five-Star Hotel By Forbes Travel Guide (11/15/2011)

Conde Nast Traveler Readers Voted The Fearrington House a 2011 World’s Best Hotel and No. 3 Best Small Hotel in The U.S. (10/12/2011)

The Fearrington Granary Re-Opens with New Bar, New Hours and New Menu (6/20/2011)

The Fearrington House is Voted #3 Best Value Worldwide by Travel + Leisure Readers (2/25/2011)

Fearrington House is Awarded The 2011 Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Rating (11/10/2010)

Fearrington House Receives AAA Five Diamond Award for 17th Consecutive Year (10/29/2010)

The Spa at Fearrington Opens its Doors (10/26/2010)

Conde Nast Traveler Readers Voted The Fearrington House a 2010 World’s Best Hotel (10/19/2010)

Fearrington House Becomes the only AAA Five Diamond Certified Green Restaurant® (10/18/2010)

What People Are Saying

  • 100 Most Romantic Restaurants in the U.S.

    - OpenTable diners, 2013

  • [Fearrington House] offers first-rate service, reminiscent of European standards.

    - Metro Magazine, April 2012

  • It’s exciting being seasonal. It means we always have to be creative. (Chef Colin Bedford)

    - Taste of the South, August/September 2011

  • Certified Green Restaurant™ (only AAA Five Diamond restaurant in the U.S.)

    - Green Restaurant Association

  • Five Diamond Award winner, every year since 1996

    - American Automobile Association

  • The #2 Small Hotel in the South

    - 2012 Readers' Choice Awards, Conde Nast Traveler

  • World’s Best Foodie Destination

    - Departures Magazine, 2012

  • "Exquisite from start to finish..indeed sublime…at once cleverly original and intelligently... More >

    - Greg Cox, Raleigh News & Observer

    “Exquisite from start to finish..indeed sublime…at once cleverly original and intelligently conceived with a nod to tradition.”

    - Greg Cox, Raleigh News & Observer

  • Executive Chef Colin Bedford named Grand Chef (top world stage honor)

    - Relais & Chateaux, 2012

  • Number One, Top 10 Luxury Hotels for Weddings

    - Forbes Travel Guide, 2012

  • Condé Nast Traveler 2013 Gold List

    - Condé Nast Traveler, January 2013

  • The World’s 500 best Hotels

    - Travel & Leisure, January 2013