Celebrity Chef Charles Phan Relists His Live/Work Loft in San Francisco for $5.5 Million
A little over three years after it first hit the market for $6.2 million, Charles Phan’s live-work space in the bustling Lower Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco has popped up for sale once again. This time the award-winning chef and owner of The Slanted Door restaurant empire is seeking $5.5 million for the property that he and his wife Angkana Kurutach picked up for a smidge under $1.8 million in late 2005. The listing is held by Trecia Knapp of Sotheby’s International Realty–San Francisco Brokerage.
Designed by noted Bay Area architect William Wurster and built way back in the early 1900s, the industrial-style structure extends from Wilmot to Bush streets, along Fillmore Street. With a total of 6,300 square feet over three levels, the building includes ground-floor restaurant space that’s currently leased for roughly $11,000 a month and a personal living space on the upper floors consisting of three bedrooms, four baths, and a roof deck providing city views.
The double-height great room hosts a combined living and dining area, plus a Phan-designed kitchen.
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Mattina, a Cal-Italian restaurant and cafe operated by James Beard Award nominee Matthew Accarrino, occupies 2,640 square feet on the first floor, while the second floor hosts an attached one-car garage and an entrance to the living quarters that’s accessible from the rear of the property. From there, a wood staircase heads up to the third floor, where the 3,760-square-foot residential layout features updated interiors adorned throughout with light narrow-plank hardwood floors, soaring exposed concrete-beam ceilings, and several sizable skylights.
The kitchen’s commercial-grade appliances are hidden away from public view.
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Especially standing out is a combined living and dining area that connects to a wraparound kitchen designed and built by Phan himself and outfitted with an expansive stone-topped island and commercial-grade appliances. Other highlights include a library/media room, as well as two guest bedrooms that each have their own loft space and share a bath, plus a spacious primary suite displaying a wall of steel-framed windows, a seating area, a walk-in closet, and a spa-inspired bath equipped with a dual vanities and a glass-encased shower.
Topping it all off is a bonus room with a bath that opens via sliding glass doors to a large south-facing roof deck that’s ideal for al fresco lounging and entertaining.
Vietnam-born Phan, 62, is a Food Network alum best known for founding his Slanted Door restaurant on San Francisco’s Valencia Street in 1995. He’s since opened several more establishments, with the most recent making their debut in the Napa Valley, where Phan has owned a home since the late ’90s, and internationally in Burgundy, France. The two-time James Beard Award-winning chef—widely acclaimed as the inventor of modern Vietnamese cuisine in America—also has penned the cookbooks Vietnamese Home Cooking and The Slanted Door: Modern Vietnamese Food.
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