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San Francisco Map: The Slanted DoorThe Slanted Door Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

Cuisine Vietnamese
Hours Daily 11am-2:30pm (until 3pm on Sun); Sun-Thurs 5:30-10pm; Fri-Sat 5:30-10:30pm
Address
1 Ferry Plaza
Location At The Embarcadero and Market, The Financial District
Transportation Bus: All Market Street buses. Streetcar: F, N-Judah line
Reservations Reservations recommended
Phone 415/861-8032
Web site www.slanteddoor.com
Prices Lunch main courses $6-$17; dinner dishes $10-$34; 7-item fixed-price dinner $45 (parties of 7 or more only)
Credit Cards AE, MC, V

Frommer's Review

What started in 1995 as an obscure little family-run restaurant in the Mission District has become one of the most popular and written-about restaurants in the city. Due to its meteoric rise -- helped along by celebrity fans such as Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Quentin Tarantino -- it's been relocated within a beautiful bay-inspired, custom-designed space at the Ferry Building Marketplace. What hasn't changed is a menu filled with incredibly fresh and flavorful Vietnamese dishes such as catfish clay-pot flavored with cilantro, ginger, and Thai chilies; an amazing green papaya salad with roasted peanuts; and fragrant peppercorn duck served with apples and watercress. If the cellophane noodles with fresh Dungeness crabmeat are on the menu, definitely order them. Be sure to start the feast with a pot of tea from their eclectic collection. If you're just looking to grab something on the go, stop by Out the Door, the Slanted Door's more casual -- but still tasty -- little sister, located on the bottom floor of the Westfield Centre. It has both seating and a pickup window.

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