The 62-year-old restaurateur is known as a trailblazer for developing the fine-dining Vietnamese concept The Slanted Door, which is

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, according to his family.

Noted chef Charles Phan who opened the popular and acclaimed Vietnamese restaurant The Slanted Door in San Francisco, has died at the age of 62, reports the San Francisco Standard. The family confirmed his passing on Instagram.

San Francisco chef Charles Phan, largely considered the inventor of modern Vietnamese cuisine in America, has died at 62. Known in the Bay Area as the architect of the Slanted Door suite of restaurants,

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 death was cardiac arrest. Phan was 62.