Famed SF Vietnamese restaurant to open new Bay Area location

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the doors have been shut at nationally acclaimed San Francisco Vietnamese restaurant Slanted Door. It has yet to reopen, but there is some good news for Charles Phan enthusiasts elsewhere in the Bay Area: The Napa location of Slanted Door is slated to open in October, according to Eater.

This will be Slanted Door’s third location, following the opening of a second location in San Ramon in 2019. The original Slanted Door opened on Valencia Street in 1995 as one of the first fine dining restaurants to serve Vietnamese cuisine. The restaurant moved to the Ferry Building from a spot on the Embarcadero in 2004.

The Napa restaurant was first announced in 2021, and is expected to open in the former Kitchen Collective space at 1650 Soscol Ave, serving lunch, happy hour and dinner seven days a week. A Slanted Door spokesperson told SFGATE that they could not yet confirm an exact opening date next month for the new location.

In May, Phan told the San Francisco Chronicle that the long-dark Ferry Building location of Slanted Door is still slated to reopen, it’s just been stuck in a lengthy permitting and building process amid renovations (the Chronicle and SFGATE are both owned by Hearst but have separate newsrooms). Also in May, Phan closed his UC Berkeley restaurant, Rice & Bones. Two of his other endeavors, the takeaway spot Out the Door and the waterfront whiskey bar and restaurant Hard Water, also closed in recent years.

Phan hasn’t stopped planning new ventures, however: He opened sandwich shop Chuck’s Takeaway on Valencia Street in SF in 2022 and had plans to open Moonset Noodle Shop in Larkspur’s Marin Country Mart as recently as fall 2022.