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.

He also expanded his vision to new locations, including a Slanted Door in San Ramon and, more recently, France and Napa.

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.

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 arrest in an Instagram post on Tuesday,

A real person who had done something extraordinary and genuine,” Charles Phan gave his time and wisdom, which was the most generous thing you can do.

Charles Phan, a chef whose love of food led to opening the popular Slanted Door restaurants and showcasing modern Vietnamese cuisine throughout the Bay Area and beyond, died on Monday, January 20. He was 62.

Charles Phan, the influential chef who opened San Francisco’s Slanted Door restaurant and popularized a new style of modern California-Vietnamese cuisine, died unexpectedly on Jan. 20. He was 62 years old.

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

Award-winning San Francisco chef Charles Phan, a trailblazer whose modern interpretations of Vietnamese cuisine at the Slanted Door captivated the Bay Area and influenced restaurants around the United States, died Monday of cardiac arrest. He was 62.

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