Amid Warriors uncertainty, Steve Kerr attends dinner for late SF chef

The way forward for the Warriors is on maintain this week due to Steve Kerr. However even because the Bay Space waits to see whether or not Kerr will proceed teaching, the top coach spent a while this week honoring a beloved San Francisco chef who died final 12 months.

The Warriors head coach made an look Tuesday evening at a tribute dinner for the late Charles Phan, who died all of a sudden on Jan. 20, 2025, as a result of cardiac arrest. The pioneering chef was the mastermind behind the lauded Slanted Door and different Bay Space Vietnamese eating places. The dinner was held on the nonprofit Farming Hope, which runs a transitional employment apprenticeship for previously incarcerated or unhoused people. Kerr loved dishes like salmon in lemongrass broth and Hokkaido scallops that centered on “simplicity,” in line with Farming Hope co-executive director Andie Sobrepeña.

“He was a terrific man. He agreed to come back take a photograph with our apprentices within the again, who had been all actually excited to satisfy him, and he was actually joyful to talk with anybody that got here as much as him,” Sobrepeña advised SFGATE in an interview. “Clearly, I hope nobody requested him in regards to the state of affairs. I feel everybody was on good habits and let him simply benefit from the night.”

Kerr was a visitor of cookbook creator and social media maven Lynda Marren, in line with Sobrepeña, who helped run the occasion for Cookbook Week. He wasn’t the one distinguished determine from the Bay Space sports activities world in attendance, although: Sobrepeña stated San Francisco Giants proprietor and staff chairman Greg Johnson additionally was there on Tuesday.

The dinner featured visitor cooks Tu David Phu, proprietor of GiGi’s, and Dong Choi, who took over as the chief chef for the Slanted Door Group following Phan’s demise. They each cooked alongside the apprentices whereas Marren and others gave speeches that led to a “touching night” the place “tears had been going the entire evening,” Sobrepeña stated.

This wasn’t the primary time Kerr had attended a dinner hosted by Farming Hope, Sobrepeña famous. In Could 2024, Kerr and Phan each attended a visitor chef dinner collection from Flour + Water that was held on the nonprofit’s eating room at 690 Van Ness Ave. They coincidentally sat subsequent to one another, as visitors of Marren and her husband John, Sobrepeña stated. Phan was impressed by Farming Hope’s mission to assist folks experiencing obstacles to employment discover restaurant trade positions, Sobrepeña added, and so he did his personal visitor chef dinner later that summer season. It’s unclear whether or not Kerr has ever eaten on the Slanted Door, which was the flagship of the Ferry Constructing for 15 years earlier than it closed in 2024.

“For [Farming Hope], it’s good to have Steve Kerr and people like that basically connecting to the work that we’re doing as a result of that’s on the core of, you understand, what persons are drawn to there,” Sobrepeña stated.

As for Kerr’s teaching future? Sobrepeña stated Kerr didn’t supply any nuggets as to what it holds, however she did say he was excited to be happening a trip along with his spouse very quickly.

Editor’s observe: This story was up to date at 3:45 p.m., April 23, to right which member of Giants possession was in attendance.