After seven long years without The Slanted Door’s legendary Shaking Beef gracing San Francisco dinner tables, there’s finally some good news. The iconic Vietnamese restaurant is officially coming back to where it all started , 584 Valencia Street in the Mission , and the team is aiming for an early 2027 reopening.

For those who weren’t around during The Slanted Door’s original run, let us fill you in: founder and chef Charles Phan basically put Vietnamese fine dining on the map in America when he opened the Valencia location back in 1995. This wasn’t just another restaurant , it was one of the first upscale Vietnamese concepts in the entire US, and it became wildly popular almost immediately. The place was so iconic that when President Bill Clinton visited his daughter Chelsea at Stanford in 2000, he took her and her friends to brunch at The Slanted Door. Phan’s response to all that presidential buzz? He casually mentioned that Mick Jagger had already eaten there twice. That’s the kind of confidence we’re talking about.

The restaurant’s success led to expansion , first to a SoMa location on Brannan Street, then to the Ferry Building in 2004, where it became a major destination for both locals and tourists. The brand even spawned a casual takeout concept called Out the Door, which had multiple locations around the city. But before the pandemic hit, Phan had been scaling back, closing those Out the Door spots and eventually letting the Ferry Building location shutter in 2020 when COVID-19 hit. That space is now home to Arquet.

Here’s the thing though: Phan never actually sold the Valencia Street building. He held onto it all these years, even trying out a short-lived Chinese restaurant concept there called Wo Hing General Store. It was clear he wanted to return to his roots in the Mission, and that’s exactly what he’d planned to do before his unexpected death last year at age 62.

Now the Slanted Door Group, being led by executive chef Dong Choi, is making Phan’s vision a reality. The team says they’ll have a clearer timeline on the Valencia reopening by summer 2026, so we might actually get some concrete dates soon. In the meantime, it’s worth noting that Phan’s other Slanted Door locations in San Ramon, Napa, and Beaune, France are still thriving.

For the Bay Area Vietnamese food community and everyone who grew up eating at the original Valencia location, this reopening feels like a full-circle moment. After seven years, we’re about to get The Slanted Door back where it belongs.