Charles Phan, the acclaimed San Francisco chef and restaurant owner who won two James Beard awards with the innovative food ...

At Slanted Door, Charles Phan changed Americans' ideas of Vietnamese food with his modern takes on Shaking Beef, Banh Mi, ...

The James Beard Award-winning chef and restaurateur fled Vietnam at 13 and created a legacy of flavor, fire, and innovative ...

Chefs who knew and admired Charles Phan, the Slanted Door chef-owner who died suddenly of cardiac arrest on Monday, are mourning the loss of a figure they called a generous, boundary-pushing food icon ...

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

Phan, who started his career in San Francisco, is largely considered the inventor of modern Vietnamese cuisine in America.