Six months after opening a brick-and-mortar location of their Humble Revelry food trailer at 197 Route 7 in Milton, chefs and business partners Andrew Gonyon and Michael Ummarino have divided the daily menu between them. Gonyon and his wife, Tennille McGregor, have also launched a monthly Better Days Supper Club, the second of which will celebrate Black History Month on February 22.
The New England Culinary Institute-trained Ummarino, 38, runs the rotating daily lunch menu, which might feature a chicken salad sandwich with a cup of tomato bisque or a local beef patty with housemade local pork sausage, a local egg and cheese, served with hand-cut fries.
Gonyon, 44, who is known as “Chef Pops” and has worked in kitchens since his teen years, focuses on dinner: macaroni and three cheeses topped with house barbecue and house ranch sauces; or fried, cornmeal-crusted cod fillets with fries. He also offers specials, such as spaghetti all’assassina: spicy, charred spaghetti with tomato sauce, ground local beef and a local poached egg.
Asked where the business’ name comes from, Gonyon recalled with a chuckle that a chef and mentor once advised him “to humble myself.” Ummarino’s wife added the word “revelry” to make it feel like a party.
For the February Better Days Supper Club dinner, Gonyon, who is a seventh-generation Black Vermonter, has created a seven-course prix-fixe menu, which must be reserved ahead for $100 or $175 per couple. Dishes include shrimp and grits and West African-style beef cheeks with jollof rice in the form of Italian arancini.
Humble Revelry serves lunch Tuesday through Friday, noon to 4 p.m., followed by dinner until 8 p.m., with table service all day. Both menus are served simultaneously on Saturday from noon to 8 p.m.
This article appears in Feb 5-11, 2025.
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