Little Fish Food Truck

Where Locally Landed “Little” Fish Offer Big Flavor

Josh Berman and Nancy Martinez met while working in the kitchen at Del Posto, a Michelin-starred Italian restaurant in New York City. Now, 13 years later, they are together in the kitchen again, only it’s a bit smaller and more mobile. The husband-and-wife team run Little Fish, a food truck based out of Portsmouth that serves tacos, ceviche, spicy lobster rolls and choco flan along with other tasty treats.

“Having spent a lot of my career working in fancy fine-dining restaurants I eventually got frustrated because I’d see these huge price tags but my friends couldn’t come to eat my food,” says Berman. With Little Fish, Berman and Martinez set out to create food that is not only delicious, but also approachable, environmentally conscious and that is representative of themselves. “Being chefs and being interested in sustainable seafood and one of us a Mexican woman with strong cultural heritage, we wanted to share our food with our community,” says Berman.

The menu emphasizes fresh local ingredients, including the namesake “little fish,” which includes a rotating selection of smaller local species such as scup, yellowtail sole, black sea bass or tautog that are featured in both the fish tacos and ceviche. “Those are two dishes where it is easy to use many different fish, cut into small pieces, so it allows us the flexibility of using what’s in season and we aren’t limited by the fish size,” says Berman.

In addition to delicious dishes featuring fresh local seafood, Martinez and Berman make pretty much everything else from scratch, including fresh tortillas, choco flan (think chocolate cake layered with flan) and the salsa verde, which they refer to as “the blood that runs through our food truck” and can be found on many of the menu options.

You can find Little Fish food truck this summer on Wednesdays at the Aquidneck Growers Market on Memorial Boulevard in Newport, as well as Ragged Island Brewing, Aquidneck Island festivals (music, seafood, Norman Bird Sanctuary, etc.) and more throughout the season.

Find Little Fish • Tacos & Ceviche at JBCuisine.com, with updates on social @LittleFishRI.

Kate Masury is the executive director at Eating with the Ecosystem, a nonprofit whose mission is to promote a place-based approach to sustaining New England’s wild seafood.
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