Tiffany Derry’s duck fat-fried chicken is headed to Las Colinas. Roots Chicken Shak will open this winter at Toyota Music Factory in Irving, giving the entertainment district one more reason to show up hungry before a concert.
Derry needs little introduction around here. The Beaumont native first caught national attention on Season 7 of Top Chef, and since 2025 she has sat at the judges’ table on MasterChef alongside Gordon Ramsay and Joe Bastianich. At home she runs T2D Concepts with business partner Tom Foley. The group is behind Roots Southern Table and Radici Wood Fired Grill in Farmers Branch, the Shef Food + Wine Festival and Roots Chicken Shak, which started as a counter inside Legacy Hall in Plano in 2017.
The duck fat goes back further than that. Derry was frying chicken in it during her days at Private Social in Uptown more than a decade ago, and it has been her signature ever since…