The Elephant Walk family of restaurants, founded in 1991 in Somerville, Massachusetts, today are a family of three, located in Boston, Cambridge, and Waltham, Massachusetts.

The Elephant Walk serves complete menus of both Cambodian and French Cuisine that includes both traditional and original dishes created by our chefs, the mother-daughter team of Longteine and Nadsa de Monteiro. Not trendy "fusion" restaurants serving a forced amalgam of disparate culinary traditions, The Elephant Walks' Cambodian and French dishes coexist discretely and naturally on a single menu as the authentic culinary expression of the De Monteiro family legacy.

The De Monteiros are Cambodian, born and raised in Phnom Penh, Cambodia at a time when Cambodia was still a French Protectorate. The family grew up eating Cambodian and French food, attended French schools and ultimately, after many years in exile, became French citizens in the 1980s.

Following the Khmer Rouge revolution in 1975 that ousted the government that Longteine's husband, Kenthao represented as Cambodia's ambassador to Taiwan, the family took up residence in Bezièrs, France. It was there, in 1990  where, in order to make a living, Longteine and Kenthao opened their first restaurant. Many more twists and turns led them to the basement of a renovated police station-gone-condo in Union Square, Somerville. It was there on August 20, 1991 that The Elephant Walk was born.

The owners of The Elephant Walk before the extraordinary 300-meter-long sculpted wall of elephants that holds up the 13th century "Elephant Terrace" in the Ta Prohm temple complex, Siem Riep, Cambodia