A culinary star familiar on TV, he married local ingredients with the food he grew up on in running an acclaimed San ...

Charles was a trailblazer, a dreamer who refused to settle for the status quo,” his family shared in a statement ...

KCBS Radio’s Foodie Chap Liam Mayclem is here to discuss the Slanted Door while paying tribute to Chef Charles Phan and his ...

Charles Phan rolled up in his big truck to a Santa Cruz farm around 2004, pulled out tables and set up a propane stove. He fired up his signature wok, threw in some beef and broccolini, and started ...

Robin Marchant/Getty Charles Phan, the award-winning Vietnamese cuisine chef at San Francisco's The Slanted Door has died unexpectedly at the age of 62. Phan’s family and the Slanted Door ...

Looking on at left is executive chef Charles Phan of The Slanted Door restaurant. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, file) Charles Phan, the San Francisco chef credited as an innovator for bringing Vietnamese ...

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 ...

Phan was 62. “Charles was more than a chef. He was one of the most generous humans," the restaurant stated. “Our hearts are heavy with this tremendous loss." The James Beard Award-winning ...

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 ...