The Elephant Trail - Avon
The Elephant Trail in Avon – and our sister restaurant The Blue Elephant Trail in West Hartford – have been named winner of Best Thai in Hartford Magazine’s 2011 Reader’s Poll! Follow this link to read the review.
And we are also honored to mention that our General manager Sohors was profiled in the “Players” section of the magazine as one of 12 notable leaders in their fields in the Greater Hartford area doing great things! The article isn’t available online, so swing by the newsstand and pick up a copy today!
The Elephant Trail
The Elephant Trail in Avon – and our sister restaurant The Blue Elephant Trail in West Hartford – have been named winner of Best Thai in Hartford Magazine’s 2011 Reader’s Poll! And we are also honored to mention that our General manager Sohors was profiled in the “Players” section of the magazine as one of 12 notable leaders in their fields in the Greater Hartford area doing great things! 
Soden Tek, Owner/Executive Chef
Soden arrived from a Thai refugee camp in the States with his family as a young boy, the 4th of five children. He spent every night at his mother and grandmother’s elbows in the kitchen, watching them expertly cook Thai and Cambodian dishes – both traditional and updated for their new homeland. He dreamed of one day being able to share his passion for Southeast Asian cuisine with the country that he now called home. He majored in Diet & Nutrition at UMass-Amherst, but always kept his family’s kitchen close in his heart. Now Soden uses his experiences as a student of both his family and his college to inform his cooking. He prepares traditional Thai dishes with flair and authenticity that is so hard to find, but he never stops innovating, adding new dishes to his repertoire all the time. |
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Sohors Tek-Tan, Manager
Sohors is the oldest sibling in the Tek family, and has been helping Soden as manager from Day One. A real “people person,” Sohors is a welcome sight for sore eyes and hungry stomachs! Sohors holds an MBA in Finance from Salve Regina University, and also has four children – who all can’t wait to grow up and work at the restaurant too! |