Saipan’s “Lone Fox” offers new dining experience

A new restaurant on Saipan comes with a unique backstory with each drink and dish it serves. The owner of Lone Fox talked about the meaning for the business.

31-year-old Troy Santos is the owner of and creative mind behind Lone Fox along Beach Road. He wants to tell us a story with each dish and drink. The motivation for the business starts with his logo of a fox and a rose, which is a tribute to his cousin from Guam, Noel Santos Jr., a choreographer who passed away from cancer. 

"My goal is that I wanted to tie his memories along with his spirit animal is a fox, and if you twist 'lone' around is spells 'Noel'," he said. And the rose placed there for his Noel's daughter.

It's that memory and passion the fuels his fire after returning home to Saipan after spending eight years in Las Vegas.  "Coming back home a couple times I realized that there is something I wanted to enjoy that was missing on Saipan and I felt I had the space to create without any boundaries, without anyone telling me what to do. So I pretty much opened this to cater to the community that I felt was missing a factor in this industry," he said.

And that factor can't be missed. Every aspect of the business is motivated. 

"The way we serve our drinks, the way we create our food, everything has a special touch to it," shared Santos. we are always innovating our menu, our food, and our drinks, because given that Saipan is so small our supply is very limited so what I have to do on a weekly basis is to search for new ingredients to play with."

He wants to surprise customers with his take on some traditional dishes in an intimate atmosphere in a mostly reservation-only experience. 

He added, "Reservation is the main goal because we get to control the amount of people we can accommodate within the hour and at the same and at the same time we can pertain to that service we are trying to adhere to, trying to maximize the quality of hospitality, as well."