Award-winning San Francisco chef Charles Phan, a trailblazer whose modern interpretations of Vietnamese cuisine at the Slanted Door captivated the Bay Area and influenced restaurants around the ...

By Kim Severson Charles Phan, a self-taught chef whose ... designing clothes and managing the family sewing shop, Mr. Phan opened the Slanted Door, on Valencia Street in the Mission District ...

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Craig Stoll and Charles Phan at The Family Meal, a tablehopper-created chef dinner at Locanda in 2014. Photo courtesy of Wes Rowe. By the time Delfina opened, following the footsteps of the Slanted ...

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 ...

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 ...

Charles Phan, a refugee from war-ravaged Vietnam ... United States through his acclaimed San Francisco restaurant the Slanted Door, died Jan. 20 at a hospital in the city. He was 62.

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.

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 ...