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"Charles Phan, who died in early 2025, opened this sandwich shop in 2022. The foundation bestowed its James Beard Award for Best Chef: California in 2004 to Phan, then inducted him into the James Beard Foundation’s Who’s Who of Food in America in 2011. The James Beard Foundation then gave props to his Slanted Door as an Outstanding Restaurant in America in 2014. Order a banh mi and egg salad sandwich." - Paolo Bicchieri
