the first ethno-botanical ‘living’ cuisine restaurant in Southeast Asia.

With Lao cuisine focusing on raw vegetable, leaves & herb ingredients as well as meat and fish, it was a logical conclusion to open a restaurant with a menu concentrating solely on the botanical aspect of local food!

L’ÉLÉPHANT VERT serves unique kind of ‘rawfully good’ vegan food with purely Southeast Asian flavors, offering a very different dining experience. The dishes are prepared so that important enzymes and nutrients are not destroyed by cooking.  Nothing on the menu will be heated above 115 C degrees and contain practically no carbohydrates. The produce will be sourced as Nature intended, from fresh, seasonal, naturally wild or farm-crafted local produce.

Made only from locally grown well-known and more unusual herbs, vegetables, fruit, flowers, leaves, nuts and seeds that have been used in Lao and other Southeast Asian cuisines for generations, the ingredients used in the daily changing set lunch and dinner menus at L’ÉLÉPHANT VERT will reflect seasonal and traditional flavors from all over the region, taking the concept of ‘living’ food to an excitingly new level of taste and texture.

•    L’ÉLÉPHANT VERT knows where all the ingredients come from and how they are grown, most of them organically

•    L’ÉLÉPHANT VERT is  passionate about ingredients and only serves the highest quality, freshest, seasonal, local & most nutritious foods

L’ÉLÉPHANT VERT supports the community and cares about the environment

•    L’ÉLÉPHANT VERT provides only healthy fats from nuts and seeds

•    None of the dishes at L’ÉLÉPHANT VERT contain artificial preservatives, coloring, flavorings or chemicals of any kind  

•    All the food served at L’ÉLÉPHANT VERT is purely vegan and uses no animal products


Elephants in many evolutionary forms have walked the planet for around 60 million years, but were only joined by the first humans around 4 million years ago.  Herbivores from the outset, elephants are the best living example to show us that consuming large amounts of green, natural foods everyday really does help the immune system to deal with possible chronic illness, provide more energy and ultimately increase longevity.