NWR: Slanted Door Reopening in Spring 2025

I saw that earlier and my jaw dropped. There were some great jeebi at that location. It started when my friend Greg (RIP) was a waiter there. He was also the doorman at Yoshi’s jazz club when it was located at Claremont and College Ave. He helped facilitate many stealth recordings there, but that’s for another thread. Greg asked Charles Phan if it was ok for his friends to bring wine. Charles said it was fine and the rest is history. It continued even at the Ferry Building location for a time.

Occasionally, there were pre-dinner martinis at Blondie’s Bar and No Grill. That establishment is still open.

However, I think this will be the case of you can't go home again.
 
originally posted by Larry Stein:
I saw that earlier and my jaw dropped. There were some great jeebi at that location. It started when my friend Greg (RIP) was a waiter there. He was also the doorman at Yoshi’s jazz club when it was located at Claremont and College Ave. He helped facilitate many stealth recordings there, but that’s for another thread. Greg asked Charles Pham if it was ok for his friends to bring wine. Charles said it was fine and the rest is history. It continued even at the Ferry Building location for a time.

Occasionally, there were pre-dinner martinis at Blondie’s Bar and No Grill. That establishment is still open.

However, I think this will be the case of you can't go home again.
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Yeah, I have a sense Slanted Door won't be particularly BYOW friendly. Shame since I live nearby. Good it will fill the vacancy though -- that storefront has gotten very dilapidated since ChezChez shut down.

Speaking of Blondie's, I'm assuming the clientele has changed since the early 2000s. The bro-vibe there now is particularly strong (though the doorman always waves to me when I walk past on my way home from the gym, despite me not having gone there in over a year).

I think Dalva serves that ITB post-work cocktail niche now in the neighborhood (possibly also ABV on 16th).
 
Yum! I love the Slanted Door. It is definitely the SF restaurant in which I’ve dined the most. Not sure if I ever went to this new/old location although I ate at SD several times before it moved to the Ferry Bldg. in fact, I met Mark E. there (no reason he’d remember me) when I dined there one night with my old law school pal, Dennis Lapuyade, and we shared a bottle of an Austrian peach something Dennis (or maybe it was Mark) had smuggled into the states.
 
originally posted by Larry Stein:
Greg asked Charles Pham if it was ok for his friends to bring wine. Charles said it was fine and the rest is history. It continued even at the Ferry Building location for a time.
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Hmm, that might not be exactly what happened. But, ok. Doesn't really matter now. BTW, it is Phan, not Pham.
 
originally posted by Yule Kim:


Yeah, I have a sense Slanted Door won't be particularly BYOW friendly. Shame since I live nearby.
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I have no idea, but it might depend on who is doing the list and their thoughts on this. On the other hand (and this debate will never end amongst those ITB), why should it be, or to what extent should it be?

I always felt that the sort of people who had decent cellars were the kind of customers restaurants should encourage, as they often "get" the food, etc. Then again, these same people could order off the list, if it was a good one and reasonably priced. We were lucky to have had many wines not available in retail stores simply because the retailers then could not care less about the wines we were serving, but that I am sure has changed.

I was, fortunately, able to convince the SD owners not to charge corkage to other restaurant folk. Still, in the Ferry Building days, there were, as always happens, a very few who took advantage of this bringing cases of cheap crap for their staff party. Oh, well.

Many on this bored know (calling ze VLM), that it is hard enough to make payroll and a decent living in the restaurant biz. The rents in SF are extortionary, and that indeed is a reason to open in your own building. Few are lucky enough to have that option.

Valencia St was a magic moment and probably won't be repeated. Mais, où sont les neiges d'antan?
 
originally posted by mark e:

I always felt that the sort of people who had decent cellars were the kind of customers restaurants should encourage, as they often "get" the food, etc. Then again, these same people could order off the list, if it was a good one and reasonably priced.
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it always worked for me -- i must have eaten well over a hundred meals (or parts thereof) at the sd, and i can recall only two, maybe three time where byob was involved. a lunch with joe d and joe d @ 100 brannan where the former had invoked schnooks' privilege to bring new cool shit, a blind date in the ferry building with teh .sasha (where we at least had the sense to bring donnhoff hermansholle kabinett, and cros parantoux for the shaking beef), and maybe a lunch on valencia with yixin and teh thin girl. yixin?

otherwise the list was always so interesting, so well matched to the food, and so reasonably priced, why the fuck bother?

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oh. and the bar @ 100 brannan never gets enough love in these nostalgiafests. it was a swinging spot.
 
originally posted by fatboy:

...yixin?

otherwise the list was always so interesting, so well matched to the food, and so reasonably priced, why the fuck bother?

fb.

oh. and the bar @ 100 brannan never gets enough love in these nostalgiafests. it was a swinging spot.
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Yes, I recall that (I was probably the idiot who wanted to, and did bring wine). Acquerello, Slanted Door, Chapeau...
 
originally posted by Yixin:
originally posted by fatboy:

...yixin?

otherwise the list was always so interesting, so well matched to the food, and so reasonably priced, why the fuck bother?

fb.

oh. and the bar @ 100 brannan never gets enough love in these nostalgiafests. it was a swinging spot.
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Yes, I recall that (I was probably the idiot who wanted to, and did bring wine). Acquerello, Slanted Door, Chapeau...
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I wasn't referring to you. It was about parties of 10+ from other restaurants where they came in with a couple of cases.
 
originally posted by mark e:
originally posted by Yixin:
originally posted by fatboy:

...yixin?

otherwise the list was always so interesting, so well matched to the food, and so reasonably priced, why the fuck bother?

fb.

oh. and the bar @ 100 brannan never gets enough love in these nostalgiafests. it was a swinging spot.
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Yes, I recall that (I was probably the idiot who wanted to, and did bring wine). Acquerello, Slanted Door, Chapeau...
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I wasn't referring to you. It was about parties of 10+ from other restaurants where they came in with a couple of cases.
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I know - I was responding to fb; there was no need to bring wine to Slanted Door at Valencia.
 
originally posted by Pavel Tchichikov:
oh bloody hell, does this mean i need to arrange for byo at the new slanted door with fb and jayer?
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Could be. I am sure the new place will likely not be (in wine terms) like days of yore.
 
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