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SF Supes Reject CEQA Challenge to The Creamery s Move to the Mission, Upsetting Anti-Gentrification Activists
A tech-famous coffeeshop that was the storied birthplace of Airbnb and Stripe, The Creamery, is likely getting to move ahead with its plans to relocate to 14th and Mission streets from its former digs in SoMa. This is despite months of pushback and an environmental-impact appeal by neighborhood activists.
With at least one activist invoking The Slanted Door s arrival on Valencia Street three decades ago considered by some to be an inflection point for Valencia s total gentrification multiple neighborhood groups, business owners, and activists spoke out this week about why allowing The Creamery into the neighborhood was just one more nail in the coffin for the Mission as they know it. But as Mission Local reports, the Board of Supervisors was not convinced that invoking the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), a common tool of anti-development activists, was not
Famed Vietnamese restaurant the Slanted Door is opening in Napa
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Famed Vietnamese restaurant the Slanted Door is getting a Wine Country outpost.
Chef and owner Charles Phan will open a third location of his hit restaurant at 1650 Soscol Avenue, in Napa. Phan only recently signed the lease and told The Chronicle he’s unsure when this new location will open, adding that it will likely be sometime next year. Kron4 first reported on the new location.
The new Slanted Door will replace the Kitchen Collective, a tony social club that was reportedly the country’s first private cooking club. Construction work is already underway on the restaurant, Phan said, and he is considering hosting a pop-up in Napa before the new location’s opening, though details are still to-be-announced.
Slanted Door chef Charles Phan selling 3-story converted loft in SF
The kitchens are a must-see
Anna Marie Erwert
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We hear a lot about chef s kitchens when writing about real estate, but once in a while, that phrase is actually, literally true. This live/work loft conversion in Pacific Heights has been home to Charles Phan, owner and executive chef of San Francisco s legendary Slanted Door, for over a decade. Phan s unique spin on Vietnamese cuisine has won him the adoration of city residents and visiting celebrities and two James Beard Awards.
Now his home could be yours for $6.2 million.
Charles Phan Puts Pac Heights Loft on Market and Announces Permanent Closure of Out the Door Location
The building that houses Slanted Door spinoff restaurant Out the Door on Bush Street in Pacific Heights is now on the market, and it also houses a live-work loft where chef Charles Phan has previously lived.
The Mercury News caught the news about the $6.2 million property going on the market on Wednesday, and it includes a rooftop terrace, four bedrooms, and a kitchen outfitted for recipe testing. Phan is selling the building and simultaneously announced the closure of the Out the Door location on its ground floor, which he previously had said would reopen.