#chef!cas

[deancasauwhere]

Cas is a master chef at a fancy restaurant, and has no time for personal attachments. After his brother Jimmy and Jimmy’s wife die, Cas becomes the guardian of his neice Claire. 

In addition to adjusting to being the sole guardian of his young niece, Cas has to deal with his new sous chef Dean who is making Cas’ once serious kitchen his own- singing and trying to get Cas to loosen up. Enemies to lovers.  

(a no reservations au)

[destiel-fic-rec]

Cooking with Gas by WinJennster

Summary: Castiel Novak has it all. He's rich, famous, has a top rated cooking show and restaurant, drives an expensive car and wears Armani. His producer throws a contest to spend a day with Chef Novak, cooking and learning techniques. Castiel wants no part of it, but Balthazar insists and Castiel will do as expected.

What Castiel wasn't expecting was to fall head over heels for the winner. Dean Winchester hasn't had a successful relationship in his 34 years on Earth. He's got a past he'd like to keep hidden, and his life rotates around his family and his business.

Winning a contest to spend a day with his favorite TV chef is a shock, but a welcome diversion from his day to day life...until he meets the guy, and he turns out to be a big jerk. Dean figures he should have expected that.

What he wasn't expecting was that same gorgeous blue-eyed man to sweep in and shake up his entire world.

Comments: 8/10. It's sweet and cute, the plot takes an abrupt turn about three quarters into the fic, which is good because I was getting a little bored. Some tiny organization issues, but it's not a big deal. WARNING: ptsd and impala damage.  SPOILERS: Everything’s fine and dandy, they fall in love and have a lot of sex, but then Dean's repair shop burns down, courtesy of Crowley, and he goes into a ptsd related breakdown and runs away. Cas and Sam and Benny chase him down and help him heal.

[quillquiver]

okayokay but like: chef!au where dean is the traditional, play-it-safe linecook in his family’s rundown roadhouse. he’s been in the kitchen since he was seven, washing wishes or peeling potatoes or swiping warm pies as they cooled on the counter. despite being enraptured by contemporary cuisine and the innovation inherent within it, truckers aren’t in the mood for de-constructed lemon meringue pie at 2am; they just want their food, and they want it fast. 

enter cas.

cas is a weird, dorky little guy who shows up one day with a huge-ass backpack, roughly 300 bucks to his name, and a resume. he applies to be a dish washer. 

dean hires him. and hey, it turns out that cas just graduated with a masters in accounting, but two months into his first job just couldn’t stomach it. turns out that, like dean, all cas wants to do is cook. 

but cook different. 

so they kinda get closer; they take their lunches together and talk about the stuff they’ve made and the places they’ve eaten. they talk about where they shop. they talk about their favourite foods. and then they start going for drinks. and then just hanging out at dean’s place. and then it becomes really dumb for cas to pay for a motel room when they both end up falling asleep to chef’s table anyway so cas moves in.

and then, y’know, as these things sometimes go, they go from sitting on the couch, to snuggling there, to making out. 

but cas never meant to stay in lawrence forever. so, with the vow that they will make the long-distance thing work, he sets off for a different state and a different diner. 

they do the long distance things for months. then john winchester dies.

with their abusive father out of the way, sam encourages dean to ditch the decrepit roadhouse and pursue his passion, but it takes cas confessing that he’s going to open his own restaurant to seal the deal. he doesn’t know where yet, only that he’s been saving his money, and he’s planning on selling everything he owns (which turns out to be a substantial amount off stuff in a storage unit---turns out that cas came from money before he was cut-off). 

they tear down the roadhouse and, themselves, build something beautiful in its place.

and it’s hard; people aren’t used to small portions and artistic plating when the ingredients are those you’d find in a diner (though infinitely more fresh and of better quality)... but they make it work. they have a hard couple of first years, but what comes after makes the hardship worth it.

a michelin star. 

[perfackles]

Just finished and really enjoyed  A Recipe for Love by @nihonlove 

Castiel is a Gordon Ramsay-esque figure and Dean is the omega waiter at his mom’s diner who just wants to keep her legacy alive. 

I have such a soft spot for chef!Dean fics, and then add in chef!Cas and I was super happy with this one. 

[destiel-fic-rec]

In the Weeds by Nanoochka

Summary: Dean knew, from the minute he laid eyes on Chef Castiel MacCarthy, the day would come that he would have to kidnap the man and dump the body in the darkest, dirties crack den in Ireland. Given that this was Dublin city, it wouldn’t be hard to find.

Comments: 8/10 Sous Chef Cas, Waiter Dean. Cute and fluffy.

[spnfanfiction]

Genre: AU

Pairing: DeanxCastiel

Summary: As far as dates go, the last few had been really awkward. But Dean's not used to not getting what he wants. And Cas isn't used to dating at all.

Word count: 906

[deanandcaswithwords]

You Need a Sous Chef (ao3)

Speary (31,161; R)

Summary: Cas Novak runs a popular restaurant. His world is running along beautifully until the night that his sous chef quits to start a new restaurant. To make matters worse, he takes many of the staff with him.Enter Dean. He works for the nearby dive, The Roadhouse. Late one night Cas stops in for a bite and from that moment, everything changes. Cas needs a sous chef, and Dean deserves an opportunity.At Novak’s, with Dean in the role of sous chef, a whole lot starts cooking despite the efforts that Cas makes to keep everything professional.

Comments: This has some nice characterization bits for the side cast, namely Charlie, Kevin, and Anna. You also get a good bit of food porn. I had a little trouble suspending my disbelief for the primary plot line (for someone who grew up poor and proclaims to only eat diner food, Dean is strangely familiar with a wide range of obscure, pricey ingredients and kitchen machinery.) If you ignore that, though, the relationship is really cute.

[perfackles]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 13/13 Fandom: Supernatural Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester/Tracy Bell Characters: Most of them Additional Tags: Cooking Competition, Reality TV Series: Part 1 of Win/Win Situation Summary:

Thirteen of the best chefs in a Supernatural Alternate Reality vie for the title of America's Next Top Chef on national television. Of course, the real drama takes place when the cameras aren't rolling. Okay, the drama takes place on camera too.

I just finished reading this and it was such a pleasure and a joy. Chef!Dean and Chef!Cas, a lot of cooking, jealousy, steamy hook-ups, a cameraman with a kink for watching. Ahhhh good stuff.