Roxy's Gourmet Grilled Cheese

For year's now, I've been yapping on about wanting to start a food blog, but couldn't. What better way to invite failure than to start a project? So I procrastinated and made excuses, looking for the perfect opportunity, the perfect situation, the perfect food to jump start my creative juices, thinking it would never happen. But it did. And today was that day.

Picture this: It's March 23rd, early evening. It's snowing. Why is it snowing so late in March? I'm crossing Chestnut Hill Ave at Cleveland Circle and... is that an ice cream truck? In the cold and snow?

No. It's a grilled cheese truck. This definitely warrants further investigation.

Enter, James DiSabatino.

This is the face behind the face that is Roxy's Gourmet Grilled Cheese Trucks (the main face being, of course, that of Roxy). And who is Roxy? According to James, it's a secret.

Roxy's Grilled Cheese features four varieties of the classic sandwich, from the Turkey Bomb Melt (Harvarti, turkey, scallions, cranberries and sour cream) to the Rookie Melt (Jack, tomatoes and mustard). And what about plain ol' fashioned cheese on bread? Probably. But I wouldn't recommend something so vanilla.

I, on this first of what I'm sure will be many, many visits, order the Green Muenster - muenster, guacamole and apple-wood smoked bacon. Et voilà!

Okay, so it's not the best photo of the sandwich, but I was so eager to try it that snapping a photo only occurred to me retrospectively. But it did not disappoint. The bread was toasty and crunchy, the cheese gooey and - get this - the guacamole is fresh made, by the Roxy staff, every day. I am a guacamole fanatic and snob and I have to say - that guacamole is the big cheese. This truck is parked not 3 blocks from my apartment, and it was gone before I got to the building door.

Roxy's Gourmet Grilled Cheese also offers two sides: the classic, must have with grilled cheese on a snowy New England day, tomato soup, and fried Grillo's Pickles. Extra points to Roxy's for the Grillo's, which are some of my favorites (coincidentally, also something I discovered ala street food).

So far, Roxy's only has one parking location - in the parking lot on the corner on Beacon Street and Chestnut Hill Ave, at Cleveland Circle - and you can find them there Wednesdays and Thursdays during the day, and Friday and Saturday night.

I left the truck still without the story of who Roxy is, so now of course, the allure is two fold - melted cheesy goodness, and the mystery. Who is Roxy? How did she inspire this idea? And what is that tattoo on her arm...?

Whoever she is though, I can only be glad she inspired James, who's amazing sandwich, in turn, inspired me to finally start this blog. So, James - thank you.

Roxy's Gourmet Grilled Cheese. Bread. Cheese. Rock and Roll.