COURTESY PHOTO | Vito Coraci opened MoGo Chef, a gourmet food truck, with his wife, Geralyn.

What do you think of when you hear “food truck?” Hot dogs? Falafels? Something relatively cheap and low quality?

Well, get ready for a reinvented version of your basic hot-food-on-wheels joint.

A Shoreham couple has launched MoGo Chef, a food truck selling only gourmet dishes.

No hotdogs, no greasy chicken and rice. Think filet mignon sandwiches topped with Portobello mushrooms and blue cheese sitting in between two thick slices of garlic-infused bread.

“We’re all being deprived of gourmet food on Long Island,” said Geralyn Coraci, who owns Mogo Chef along with her husband Vito.

The two first opened shop at Adelphi University in Garden City last month. The truck will soon be rolling around Suffolk as soon as the Coracis obtain a Food Service Establishment permit.

The two have been out of work since they lost their mortgage firm in Shoreham four years ago. Prior to that, Mr. Coraci worked in marketing and Ms. Coraci practiced law.

But she’s been cooking all her life.

She remembers learning to cook Italian meals from her mother when she was just three years old.

“The kitchen table, having people over and food were always an integral part of our lives,” Ms. Coraci said. “I’ve always had this great interest in feeding people and watching their reactions and seeing how much they enjoy food.”

MoGo Chef (short for mobile gourmet) will serve breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert. Everything from chocolate chip pancakes with homemade syrup, white bean chicken chili, fish tacos, buttermilk mashed potatoes and panatele pasta with truffle oil will be whipped up in the food truck.

“This gives people alternatives,” Mr. Coraci said. “It’s different than what you’ll get at a fast food place or a deli.”

The menu will change seasonally (moving into fall, the couple will be cooking up comfort foods), and local ingredients will be used as much as possible.

And the Coracis say “generous” portions won’t break the bank. Lunches start at $5 and no menu item will exceed $9.

Customers can order online and request delivery, though the Coracis expect most of their orders to be pick-up.

The truck will mainly be hitting up Melville in Nassau County, since its dense population is conducive to large numbers of food truck orders, the Coracis said. They’ll also travel to events like festivals and sports games in both counties and in New York City.

The 24-foot long truck with two 6-foot wide serving windows (so customers can watch the cooking) is equipped with a six-burner grill and stove, a refrigerator, freezer and panini makers.

Hours will depend on the events the Coracis are heading to. They could easily start their day at 4 a.m. and not close up until 8 p.m.

“It’s very long, grueling hours, but I think the payoff is enormous,” Ms. Coraci said.

She estimates the truck will cost $50 to $75 a day to operate — much less than the cost of running a regular restaurant. And the Coracis say they think customers will come in droves once they see the food truck is more than what they’re used to.

“I think once people see us they’ll get out of thinking a food truck is just a hot dog vendor,” she said. “We want to reintroduce the population to a whole new way of experiencing gourmet food.”

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