Charles Phan

Hard Water: Charles Phan's Exciting Expansion Into Southern Food

Health Check: Are More S.F. Restaurants Grand Opening or Grand Closing?

The San Francisco restaurant scene is constantly plagued with closures. Since the beginning of the year, we've lost solid places such as Masa's, Tommy Toy's, Solstice, Shanghai, Kan Zaman, and Wo Hing General Store. Luckily, S.F. is also blessed with a seemingly endless run of restaurant openings. H ... More >>

Recent Openers

Recent Openers

Recent Openers

Recent Openers

South: Charles Phan Expands His Empire

Charles Phan on His New Restaurant South, Now Open at SF JAZZ

Chef Charles Phan had one word when Randall Kline, the founder of SF JAZZ asked the Slanted Door chef to take over the café South at SF JAZZ's new permanent space on Franklin and Fell. "I said, 'No,'" Phan said. "A lot of people ask me to do a lot of things, and the first thing I say is, 'No.'" ... More >>

SFJAZZ Opens Its Hayes Valley Center with Transparent Intentions

Out the Door: Admire the Cookbook, Eat at the Restaurant

Cooks With Books Dinner Series Celebrates Reading and Eating

Several times a month, Book Passage, an independent bookseller with locations in San Francisco and Corte Madera, hosts a dinner series called Cooks with Books where a cookbook author gets to direct the preparation of a meal from their book at a restaurant in the city or in Marin County. The author i ... More >>

Food Trucks and Celebrity Chefs to Celebrate Asian Heritage

Organizers of the 8th annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration, the largest gathering of Asian Pacific Americans in the country, promise the event will allow visitors from around the world to come together in the greatest cultural exchange humanity has yet come yup with: eating. A smorgasbord of f ... More >>

Chucky Dugo's Recipe for Hazelnut-Ricotta Cake with Huckleberries

As part of SFoodie's interview with Chucky Dugo, pastry chef for the Charles Phan restaurant group (read part one here and part two here), we asked Dugo for one of his current favorite recipes. Dugo recently put this dessert on the menu at Wo Hing General Store, answering customers' requests for a c ... More >>

Q&A With Slanted Door's Chucky Dugo, part 2: Saying No to Fusion and Yes to Klondike Bars

Alanna HaleChucky Dugo, Slanted Door's head pastry chef, clearly receiving inspiration from the heavens.​Chucky Dugo, pastry chef for Charles Phan's restaurants -- including Slanted Door, Out the Door, and Wo Hing General Store -- started his career in San Francisco, but talked his way into ru ... More >>

James Beard Awards Announce Semifinalists: Bay Area's Well Represented, Obviously

​The day has come for the James Beard Foundation to announce the semifinalists for the 2012 Restaurant Awards. As SFoodie has written before, the finals can resemble the Oscars in that they're often career awards rather than a measure of how the nominees are performing at this very moment. Tha ... More >>

Q&A With Slanted Door's Chucky Dugo, part 1: From Paris-Brest to Taipei and Back

Chucky Dugo, pastry chef for Charles Phan's restaurants -- including Slanted Door, Out the Door, and the Moss Room -- grew up in a small town in the Central Valley with a big Italian family. Meals, especially at holidays, were a multi-dozen-person affair, with grandmothers bearing homemade breads an ... More >>

Charles Phan's New Project, the Penthouse Club & Steakhouse, and Medjool Changes

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. While physicaly not far from his Ferry Building restaurant the Slanted Door, Charles Phan's pending restaurant on Pier 3 will be world's away when it comes to cuisine and décor. SFGate reports that the f ... More >>

Five Mall Food Court Finds S.F. Foodies Can Stomach

​The typical mall food court is the culinary equivalent of The Epcot Center -- a rickety selection of "ethnic" delights poorly prepared and served lukewarm to the grinning consumers of modern America. There the fruits of the world's gastronomic endeavors are reduced to their most basic,  blan ... More >>

Burma Superstar's New Location and The Ice Cream Bar Readies to Open

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. With an hour-and-half average wait time (on a Tuesday!) at the original Burma Superstar on Clement, we can't say we're surprised the owners are looking to open their fourth (second in the City) location. ... More >>

Wo Hing General Store: Charles Phan Tries Cantonese Food

Wo Hing General Store: Cantonese Home Cooking Not for the Masses

​It took me a few weeks to sort through my feelings about Charles Phan's new Wo Hing General Store, the subject of this week's full-length restaurant review in the paper. The Slanted Door owner is nationally known for Vietnamese food, but here he's finally applying the Phan treatment -- simple foo ... More >>

The New Year Ushers In New Restaurants, Closures, and Other Changes

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. New places to grab a bite: Tablehopper has the deets on two new spots. Manzoni, the family-style Italian joint is now open in Glen Park (2790 Diamond at Chenery) and tomorrow, out in the Sunset, Sheng Kee ... More >>

Brooke Arthur, Wo Hing's Cocktail Creator, on the Mission's Cocktail Culture

Lou Bustamante​Few in the bar industry have been on such a consistent and stellar climb as Brooke Arthur. With a rare combination of remarkable talent, humility, and good nature, it's no surprise Arthur has been tapped to lead such high profile bar programs such as Range, Prospect, and now Charles ... More >>

Wo Hing Cocktail Creator Brooke Arthur on Balancing the New and the Familiar

Lou Bustamante​Few in the bar industry have been on such a consistent and stellar climb as Brooke Arthur. With a rare combination of remarkable talent, humility, and good nature, it's no surprise Arthur has been tapped to lead such high profile bar programs such as Range, Prospect, and now Charles ... More >>

Wo Hing General Store Readies to Open, and the latest Tacolicious and Mosto On the Way

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Charles Phan's Wo Hing General Store will officially open tomorrow. Eater SF gives a sneak peek inside the Chinese street food-inspired restaurant during a test-run dinner. The Mission restaurant's sleek ... More >>

Clairvoyant Cafe Owner, Casey's Pizza and Bomb Truck Roll Out

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. A clairvoyant, match-making cafe owner? Maybe sitcom writers have run out ideas. Inside Scoop shares a Craigslist casting call for a local pilot in which a female café owner uses special powers to help s ... More >>

Bi-Rite's Bouncer, Tyler Florence Fires, and Trace Opens

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Waiting behind the red rope for the bouncer to let the group in to Bi-Rite Market has become an unusual, busy-weekend ritual. Grub Street shares, via the Uptown Almanac, with the Fire Marshal keeping tabs ... More >>

Hot Water Is Everything, A Food Insult, Lucky 11, and the Dog Days

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Yesterday we shared that the Hawaiian restaurant Hukilau was closed on Tuesday by the Department of Public Health for reported health hazards. Apparently the owners got to work sprucing the place up, and ... More >>

Agricole Rhum Punch, a Classic Cocktail at Slanted Door

Tamara Palmer​With this week's big news that Slanted Door owner Charles Phan plans to revive his original restaurant space in the Mission District as Wo Hing General Store, a new Chinese restaurant with a heavy focus on both alcoholic and virgin drinks, we thought it a good time to toast with a co ... More >>

What to Do This Weekend, July 9-10

Craving more? Scroll through additional listings here. Sat., July 9 Family Pasta Making Class Ferry Building, 2-4 p.m. Anthony Strong of Locanda is teaming up with Charles Phan of the Slanted Door for an East/West tutorial on Italian and Asian noodle-making. Using farm-fresh eggs and wheat ground o ... More >>

Learn Pasta Making from the Stars

Family Pasta Making Class Where: Ferry Building When: Sat., July 9, 2-4 p.m. Cost: $30/$15 for kids 12 and under The rundown: If you're anything like us, you went green when you heard about Sprouts Cooking Club, the star-studded summer camp for aspiring gastronomes aged 16 and under. Well, this ... More >>

Shark's Fin — Understanding the Political Soup

Charles Phan Hopes the Mission Likes Him Better Now, Bai Thong Opens

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Jay B. at Grub Street talks to Charles Phan about his plans for the original Slanted Door location at 584 Valencia St. They're still quite vague, but Grub Street says the concept is more likely ... More >>

What We Crave: The Pork Buns at Heaven's Dog

Ed U./YelpIf we could, we'd buy 'em by the sack.​Charles Phan's Heaven's Dog elevates Americanized, non-region-specific Chinese food from the realm of fold-out delivery menus, red-and-white takeout boxes, and gloppy sauces cloaking fried nuggets of indeterminate meat to slicker, more stylish, ... More >>

Skool's Star Rises, Luna Taqueria's Dims, Charles Phan Demonstrates His Savvy

​A summary of the past 72 hours of rumor, innuendo, and straight-up facts about San Francisco restaurant openings and closings. Carolyn A. at Eater SF is the first out of the gate to report that Skool (1725 Alameda, at De Haro, 255-8800, www.skoolsf.com) has opened for lunch today from a group of ... More >>

Ready when you are: People who wait for brunch? Not us

How Much Is That Art in the Window?

Old Mint Rolls Out Three Weekends of Culinary Events

Some events you won't be able to afford. Others cost just $10. ​The Old Mint is closed to the public and only sporadically open for private events, but the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society has planned an exhibit and series of events to give unprecedented access to the gorgeous and o ... More >>

Out the Door's Argument-Worthy Ginger Snaps

Tamara Palmer​While we've come to know the various locations of Charles Phan's Out the Door as decent places for dessert, the mini-chain's crystallized ginger snap cookies ($5) are a revelation. They're pleasingly crisp and dark due to the use of molasses, but the little strips of candied rhiz ... More >>

Outstanding in the Field Announces 2010 Dates

Cheryl Bower/FlickrStart saving up.​Outstanding in the Field stages al fresco dinners at organic farms around the country, touring from site to site in a 57-year-old bus that probably runs on spring onion fumes and goat cheese whey. Now in its 11th year, Jim Denevan's operation has been across ... More >>

Hair of the Dog: Diner Pancakes by Way of Vietnam at Out the Door Bush

C. AlburgerThe buttermilk pancakes at Out the Door Bush: Mayberry by way of Asia.​Most of us have our preferred poison, be it PBR, Pinot, or mixology's latest love child. For mornings after one or 10 too many, SFoodie offers Hair of the Dog, our weekly recommendation on where to run when a han ... More >>

Audio from Last Month's Commonwealth Club Street-Food Panel Discussion Now Available

Meredith BrodyAnthony Myint (left) and Brian Kimball​Missed last month's panel discussion on street food at the Commonwealth Club? No worries -- audio is now available. To refresh: On Oct. 29, SFoodie contributor Tamara Palmer moderated The Street Food Movement: SF Hearts the Cart, a discussio ... More >>

At the Commonwealth Club Last Night, a Diverse Panel Chews on Street Food's Challenges

m. BrodyMission Street Food's Anthony Myint (left) with Magic Curry Kart's Brian Kimball.​A full house celebrated San Francisco's street-food scene at last night's panel discussion at the Commonwealth Club, The Street Food Movement: SF Hearts the Cart, moderated by SFoodie blogger Tamara Palme ... More >>

Don't Forget: Commonwealth Club's Look at S.F. Street Food is This Thursday

markevnic72/FlickrIt was the summer of love for S.F.'s food carts.​A reminder: SFoodie's Tamara Palmer is moderating a panel of high- and low-end contributors to S.F.'s street food scene this Thursday at the Commonwealth Club's The Street Food Movement: SF Hearts the Cart. Speakers range from ... More >>

Sans Cart

Local Flavor: Shredded Pork Shoulder with Chá Truong Vit

J. Birdsall​Dish: Shredded pork shoulder, served with Vietnamese pork quiche with duck egg (chá truong vit) ($12) Source: Out the Door, 2232 Bush (at Fillmore) Breakdown: This is two dishes in one: a tangle of cold pork and pork skin sanded with toasted rice powder, served with a wedge of col ... More >>

Thank Heaven's Dog for Buns

There's much to praise about Charles Phan's newest restaurant venture Heaven's Dog (1148 Mission). But if you want to go straight to the heart of it and don't have the time or means to carry out a full sit-down reservation, here's an idea: Belly up to the bar, lounge or adjacent noodle bar and or ... More >>

Below Expectations

Dining is unexpectedly hidden under the new planetarium and aquarium in Golden Gate Park.

Victuals Tour

Come along as we walk (and eat) our way through the Ferry Building.