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Charles Phan, the San Francisco chef credited as an innovator for bringing Vietnamese food to fine dining at his Slanted Door restaurant, has died. The restaurant announced his death from cardiac ...

A culinary star familiar on TV, he married local ingredients with the food he grew up on in running an acclaimed San Francisco restaurant and its offshoots. By Kim Severson Charles Phan ...

(AP Photo/Eric Risberg, file) Charles Phan, the San Francisco chef credited as an innovator for bringing Vietnamese food to fine dining at his Slanted Door restaurant, has died. The restaurant ...

Charles Phan, the acclaimed San Francisco chef and restaurant owner who won two James Beard awards with the innovative food at his Vietnamese restaurant the Slanted Door, has died at age 62 ...

Mr. Phan was among the first chefs to serve Vietnamese food in a modern, sophisticated setting, after decades in which fine dining was dominated by French cooking and other Western cuisines.

“With, you know, really authentic Vietnamese food, which nobody was really doing there." Tributes from fellow chefs, restauranteurs and friends on social media often described Phan as "generous ...

“But Phan, a self-taught chef, was one of the first in the Bay Area to successfully take authentic Vietnamese cooking and serve it in style with fine wines, propelling Vietnamese food into chic ...

In a September 2005 Food & Wine story titled "Vietnam à la Cart," writer Laurie Winer noted that Charles Phan's decade-old San Francisco restaurant the Slanted Door was considered by many to be ...