Local Flavor: Pizza, chicken pot pie, and dinner with mayors

Forget Dancing with the Stars, you can have dinner with dignitaries.

Ferry Beach Retreat and Conference Center, is hosting its monthly community dinner from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 25 at 5 Boardwalk Drive, Saco. Biddeford Mayor Marty Grohman and Saco Mayor Jodi MacPhail will be the featured speakers. You can learn all about Biddeford and Saco over a delicious meal with all locally sourced ingredients.

The menu will feature fruit and Pineland Farms cheese charcuterie, Ferry Beach focaccia tomato bruschetta, Bay of Fundy smoked salmon, cucumber, chive crème fraiche, Gulf of Maine baked haddock, Maine maple-glazed turkey breast, Aroostook County Green Thumb potatoes, blueberry trifle and chocolate olive oil cake and. Almost the entire menu is gluten-free.

For information on ticket prices and to register, go to fbch.me/dinner.

Pizza

Rocco’s Pizza, one of the long-time food stands on the main strip in Old Orchard Beach is now open for the season. Located at 4 West Grand Ave., Rocco’s has been a popular place to grab a slice of New York Style pizza for more than 30 years.

Chicken Pot Pie

Reilly’s Bakery, 232 Main St., Biddeford, has been a downtown institution for more than 100 years. The bakery recently announced on social media that it has revamped its chicken pot pie recipe, describing the pie as “a creamy, savory filling with more chicken, onions, peas, carrots and garlic in the same crust we've used since the beginning.”

Liz Gotthelf is the publisher of Saco Bay News. She also loves to eat – and support local businesses. If you have any local restaurant or food news, she’d love to hear from you. Send her an email at [email protected].