The restaurant, which opened in San Francisco in 1995, married local ingredients with the food he grew up on and buoyed other chefs from immigrant families. Phan, Charles, Chefs, Cooking and Cookbooks, Deaths (Obituaries), Restaurants, Food, Vietnamese-Americans, Slanted Door, The (San Francisco, Calif, Restaurant), San Francisco (Calif), Vietnam The restaurant, which opened in San Francisco in 1995, married local ingredients with the food he grew up on and buoyed other chefs from immigrant families. NYT > Business