Chef Charles Phan is hosting a limited pop-up dinner series at UC Berkeley.

Legendary San Francisco restaurateur Charles Phan is bringing his magnum opus, the Slanted Door, as a pop-up to UC Berkeley for a limited time, according to Eater SF. 

On Friday, Phan, who is a Cal alum, suddenly closed his fast-casual campus outpost Rice and Bones, at Wurster Hall in the College of Environmental Design, only to shift the focus of the kitchen to a pop-up dinner series from June 15 to July 1. The Slanted Door dinner series is planned for Wednesday through Friday nights, 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. 

With such limited options, reservations are sure to fill up quickly. 

During the day, Phan will feed UC Berkeley students at Wurster Hall with take-home kits of pho, steam buns and coffee through the summer and the upcoming school year. But by night, he plans to experiment with a four-course prix-fixe menu for $48 per person. The menu is expected to include wild gulf soft shell crab in a pineapple anchovy sauce, a dry-aged wood roasted duck with fava beans and rice, and banh bot loc — shrimp rice dumplings.

A Slanted Door Group spokesperson recommended to Eater that parties should be at least two people (not solo diners) because the middle courses will be served family-style. 

For the past two years, the Slanted Door located in the Ferry Building along San Francisco’s Embarcadero has been closed because of the pandemic. But fans have been pining for the return of Phan’s flavorful dishes, such the imperial rolls, shaking beef and cellophane noodles with Dungeness crab. While those celebrated dishes won’t be available at the Slanted Door pop-up, they are expected to be back on the menu at the Ferry Building whenever that returns.

Reservations for the Slanted Door pop-up series can be made via REX.

Nico Madrigal-Yankowski is a food reporter for SFGATE. He is a born and bred San Franciscan. Email him tips at nico.madrigal-yankowski@sfgate.com