Charles Phan, the award-winning Vietnamese cuisine chef at San Francisco's The Slanted Door has died unexpectedly at the age of 62 'due to cardiac arrest,' his family shared on social media.

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 United ...

He also expanded his vision to new locations, including a Slanted Door in San Ramon and, more recently, France and Napa.

His San Francisco restaurant, the Slanted Door, was among the first to feature Vietnamese food in a modern, sophisticated ...

Charles Phan, the San Francisco chef credited as an innovator for bringing Vietnamese food to fine dining at his Slanted Door ...

But it isn’t just restaurants serving wildly creative, arguably pretentious, 12-course tasting menus at $180 per head that appear endangered. Corporate fast-food companies are getting hammered too, as ...

The Solano County coroner is trying to sort out a disturbing discovery: a body found in Vallejo on Christmas Eve in the same place where a public works crews was using heavy machinery to clean up ...

The Colombian restaurant Parche in Oakland was one of my favorite premieres ... Charles Phan told Eater that the Slanted Door won’t return to the Ferry Building next year, but shared the good news ...

Once Reem’s California and Red Bay Coffee exit late next month, the two spaces will be remodeled and combined to make way for a future restaurant in a renovation project that is expected to take ...

While more than 40 of our poll responders mentioned traveling straight to the source for these chewy, meaty ribs, if you can’t make the drive, the restaurant can ship slabs (fully cooked and frozen) ...

The name of the restaurant: Apna Chulha, the phrase for “clay oven” in Urdu. Down the block at 584 Valencia, near 17th Street, Slanted Door will make a return home after more than two decades away ...