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Goldies: New food truck in town
Eva Faber (left) and Lexie Roth say their goal is to provide a unique and fun experience that focuses on food quality and the connection between people and what they eat.
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Anew food truck with a deliciously trendy twist has arrived on Martha’s Vineyard, and it’s serving up responsibly raised rotisserie chicken, brussels sprouts, crispy potatoes, and more. Goldie’s Rotisserie food truck is the brainchild of Island cooks Lexie Roth and Eva Faber, who both say their goal is to provide a unique and fun experience that focuses on food quality and the connection between people and what they eat.
Roth told Edible Vineyard she has been cooking on Martha’s Vineyard since she was 19 years old. More than 15 years later, she has moved away from gluten-free and dairyfree private cooking in people’s homes, and is excited to embed a rotisserie-style truck in the Vineyard food scene.
“I just felt the need to do something that is my own,” Roth said. “Fun, awesome, almost like elevated fast food.”
Roth said Goldie’s takes the idea of the classic rotisserie chicken from the grocery store that is normally factory-raised, and instead uses a high-quality bird that has been ethically raised and is even more delicious and juicy.
“Who doesn’t love a big juicy chicken,” Roth said.
When designing the layout and menu for the restaurant on wheels, Roth said they considered whether they wanted to do fried food (a very common staple for food trucks) or not.
But they decided to go in a different direction, and picked up a traditional sixspit rotisserie custom made in France that serves as their namesake “Goldie.”
“We love fried food, but we decided to commit to not doing anything fried using seed oils. We are going to be slowly turning rotisserie chickens and cooking potatoes and brussels sprouts in the drippings. We will do some sandwiches and stuff too,” Roth said.
She noted that the food truck has its own baker who makes fresh sourdough
Food truck serves up ‘elevated fast food’ with a side of sunshine.
Goldie’s Rotisserie
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bread for all of their sandwiches.
“There’s absolutely no mystery to our food. You know what you are getting — we are really trying to be aware of what we are feeding people, and want to be excited about eating it ourselves,” Roth said.
Goldie’s is also exploring other food offerings, like all-Angus beef hot dogs with melted cheese and Gruyère, topped with fresh thyme and caramelized onions.
The goal is fun and colorful, and although Roth and Faber plan to have a brick-andmortar location eventually, they are enjoying their time with the mobile restaurant.
Roth noted that she was particularly inspired by seeing her contemporaries and friends taking a risk with their own food trucks, and creating a cherished community establishment with great menus.
“I want to make people happy — that is our main goal with Goldie’s,” Roth said. She added that, after working in restaurants in New York, she is passionate about hospitality and optimizing the customer experience.
Their logo emblazoned on the side of their brightly colored truck embodies the goal of the two cooks — to brighten people’s days with delicious food they can feel good about eating.
“Life is so hard, let’s do a super happy, smiling sun that just makes you grin. We just want to have a good time and give people respite from this crazy world,” Roth said.
After much hard work and planning, Roth said she is proud to finally have the truck up and running. The entire process has given her a better perspective on what it takes to start a business, and she has a strong respect for those who choose to go down that path (especially the food truck path).
So far, the feedback from the Martha’s Vineyard community has been overwhelmingly positive, Roth said. She said upon first sharing their logo on Instagram and their announcement that they would be opening, businesses and entities from all over the Island reached out to connect.
All-Angus beef hot dogs with melted Gruyère, fresh thyme and caramelized onions.
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