Often described as a trailblazer, Phan originally opened The Slanted Door in SF’s Mission District in 1995. At the time, it was considered a pioneering restaurant in terms of Vietnamese fine dining.

He also expanded his vision to new locations, including a Slanted Door in San Ramon and, more recently, France and Napa. Chef Charles Phan, the pioneering force behind The Slanted Door ...

His success with the Slanted Door, the San Francisco restaurant he opened in 1995, buoyed fellow chefs from immigrant families who had long wanted food critics and diners to value dishes from ...

Charles Phan, a chef whose love of food led to opening the popular Slanted Door restaurants and showcasing modern Vietnamese cuisine throughout the Bay Area and beyond, died on Monday, January 20.

Looking on at left is executive chef Charles Phan of The Slanted Door restaurant. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, file) (Eric Risberg, AP2009) Charles Phan, the San Francisco chef credited as an innovator ...

“He put on such a show.” The generosity, intelligence and humility that Phan transmitted on the show, carried into his three decades of work as a Vietnamese chef and owner of the Slanted Door, which ...

The Slanted Door founder and chef, Charles Phan, has died. Phan opened the first Slanted Door in San Francisco in 1995. He's being remembered as a visionary and pioneer. SAN FRANCISCO - Visionary ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Charles Phan, the chef behind San Francisco’s acclaimed Slanted Door restaurant, has died, according to a representative of his family and restaurant group. The cause of ...

Charles Phan, the influential chef who opened San Francisco’s Slanted Door restaurant and popularized a new style of modern California-Vietnamese cuisine, died unexpectedly on Jan. 20. He was 62 years ...