Reilly’s Bakery

Reilly’s has been in Biddeford forever, or so it seems. But there’s big news, the owner recently retired and turned the place over to his daughter. Reilly’s hasn’t changed much over the years but the new owner is trying some new things. In the last few weeks they’ve started making stuffed bread for lunch and it’s really good. Today’s was steak and cheddar and yesterday’s was turkey, mozzarella, tomato, and basil. The downtown has been due for a new lunch option since Cobblestone’s closed and this is really nice.
They make the breads in the morning and unfortunately they’ve cooled off by lunchtime. Maybe this is okay because they’re still good cold or maybe it would be better if they cooked them later in the morning so they were hot at lunchtime. I don’t know, this is something new and I’m sure they’ll figure it out quickly. Right now there’s a different kind each day but I expect that there’s going to be a choice and they’ll get on a predictable schedule once they see what people want. I’m really happy to see this change and I can’t wait to see what they do next.

Whoopie Pies! Wonderful but they only had 2 left! Purchased other goodies and all was yummy. The only reason they didn’t get 5 stars from me was because it was morning and the selection wasn’t huge-​and I felt thy were a little pricey.

Couldn’t believe I had lived in Biddeford for so long without knowing about Reilly’s Bakery. There is nothing fancy or over the top about Reilly’s. It is a large space with necessities and hard working people, making it a blueprint of why true Mainers enjoy it. On weekends if you want donuts, come early because they open early and the regulars will clear them out if you’re not there in time. I love coming by for some donuts, especially when I used to work early on Saturday mornings. Favorites include glazed, butter crunch, jelly, and of course chocolate frosted. Instead of a chocolate glaze that most donut places use, Reilly’s tops theirs with actual thick decadent frosting. If you’re lucky you’ll have a chance to grab a maple bacon donut, which are perfect in the fall. I always make a stop at Reilly’s when I’m back in town.

My husband and I drove 10 miles to get doughnuts here after reading the reviews. We went in and we’re greeted quickly and asked some questions about variety of doughnuts. The place is very dingy and big and cold. We got a half dozen for $ 7.50, price is fine. We went to take our first bite of doughnut, I broke off a piece of the orginal old fashion doughnut to put in my husbands mouth to see a big hole in the middle and it was raw! We proceeded to snag a bite out of the glazed old fashion, not raw and not good. I can not believe people think these are good doughnuts. They are greasy and flavorless. The lady asked if we wanted our box tied or not, why have the string if you are not going to use everytime. I think they would like to be Mikes Pastry in Boston but no chance ever. If you are looking for good doughnuts this place is a skip it. Oh one more thing, a doughnut shop and no coffee?

A LIFETIME favorite. Every birthday [I’m almost 30] I request that my cake come from here… Frosting is full of sugar, but you’ve got to splurge at least once a year right? The inside is never dry and the presentation is always perfect.
My family is a huge fan of the chocolate frosted donuts. they’ve become a staple to almost any holiday to have them for breakfast, or for any reason really… just whomever is coming up for the weekend, we make sure they get to experience the amazingness these are. I’ve graduated in my ways from eating just the frosting to enjoying the entire donut… clearly I had been missing out during the frosting only days!
ALSO, another favorite is the butter cookies. I went to school in NJ and then lived in Boston for 6 years and now live in RI and have yet to find cookies tasting as good as these [even better than Mike’s Pastry in Boston] and anytime my parents come to visit, I always get a treat of a bag full of these. The perfect amount of sprinkles and yummy.
Someday I’ll get married… and I’ll be coming to them :)
Recommend to any and everyone!

Nice old school bakery. Friendly staff, lots of pastry and donut options, and they offer samples while you’re browsing! I sampled the maple frosted donut with crumbles bacon on top — SO GOOD! Needless to say I went home with a couple of those :) I highly recommend this place if you’re looking for a nice old school family friendly bakery. Also, cash only so be prepared!

After a tasting and sending a detailed email reiterating our flavor choices, cake tier sizes, and colors, complete with picture, our cake arrived at the reception in the wrong flavors, wrong sized tiers, and wrong colors. I think the only things Elizabeth got correct were the date and location. I’ll never use them again.

All I need to say is that the maple glazed donuts with freshly made maple cream topping are outstanding. They are fresh, light and creamy dreamy delights. This by far is one of the best desserts I’ve had in a long while.
BTW, I normally don’t like or eat donuts. I made an exception and discovered these marvels. The maple cream topping and filling won me over.

They have yummy fig squares here, which they will mail for you. My Mom lives far from New England now, so this our only source for those scrumptious fig squares. They were just terrific, putting an extra dozen in the box! My Mom was delighted. They are very kind. :)

Come here for Whoopie pies. I can’t speak for the other bakery items, but come here for the whoopie pies.
This place is old school and charming, but with no frills.

Huge space but I thought they didn’t offer a wide variety of goods.
Breads, muffins, cookies, donuts. Coffee. I like the open kitchen & I’m told everything is made here.
The fresh raisin bread was good– best for French toast actually– as I found out one morning!
The jam filled raised donuts w REAL butter cream were delish — particularly the blueberry– definately split it w your best pal!
Take note of the specials board as they offer something different every day — like buy 1 donut & get 1 free– which is pretty cool.

best frosting & chocolate covered cake donuts in the world. old school bakery, been around for literally 100 years. cravable pastries.

My Dad grew up in Biddeford, and what we call «Napoleons» at Reilly’s (I think they call them Neopolitans?) — layers of puff pastry with raspberry filling and a chocolate ganache/​walnut top — all I can say is that these are the stuff of family legend. Funny thing is that I actually don’t eat them, since I didn’t inherit the French-​Canadian sweets gene (considered a genetic disorder in my family!).
However, whenever a Huot family member is in Maine, they have to stop at Reilly’s and pick up Napoleons. I have actually Fedex-​ed these things to my aunt in Connecticut. She recently bemoaned that one of her Connecticut cousins hadn’t brought home Reilly’s for her, so on my last trip, I mailed some to her. I think they won’t be in her will :) but she sent my parents a note about how wonderful they were, and she sent me a birthday card with a P. S. about what a wonderful niece I was.
As for me — despite my sweets-​minus genetic disorder :), the one thing I fall for is the maple donut. Whenever I’m picking up the family order (yes, call ahead to reserve Napoleons), But I always get one maple donut to-​go. It doesn’t last beyond the curb on Main St. Usually I’m licking my fingers as I go around the corner to George’s Subs, another institution and family favorite…

Reilly’s is an institution. If you are a local you have probably been here or eaten one of their cakes at someones birthday party. It is a local establishment, everything is made in-​house and they have very limited quantities. The selection is small as well.
They have decent donuts, I am not a huge donut lover. They are better then Dunkin Donuts I can tell you that much.
The issue I have with Reilly’s is their cakes. Every year for my birthday I got a Reilly’s cake. I loved it. I got to pick out what color flowers I wanted and have fond memories of the bakery.
However, I have moved from southern Maine, explored the world and well sadly have found much better cakes. Every time I have a piece of Reilly’s cake it is nostalgic but also tastes dry with heavy crisco frosting. With that being said and much to my mother’s dismay, even though I will be married in Maine, Reilly’s will not be making my cake.

Is the reviewer Samantha on crack? Reilly’s maple cream donuts are the best thing ever concocted! I lived in Biddeford four years and the donut is still better than anything I’ve had here in Boston. She must not branch out much from her bubble in Maine, and knows little about loving all things maple.
It’s a mom and pop establishment, so its always good to support a local business, especially seeing that Biddeford has 4 Dunkin Donuts stores throughout the city (either stand alone stores or in wal-​mart type places).

Reilly’s is considered more or less an insitution in Biddeford. They have been in business for 100 years so they’re doing something right… sort of.
They’re well-​known for their chocolate frosted donut. Luckily, today (Friday) if you buy one you get one FREE. Who doesn’t love that? So I got 2 chocolate frosted and their maple cream donut also looked pretty awesome too. I’m a sucker for maple anything. I paid and dug in, in my car so my coworkers wouldn’t see me pigging out on so many donuts.
First inital thought and taste on my maple cream donut? Smells great, but tastes gross. Extreme disappointment. Though there was a generous amount of ‘maple’ cream there was virtually NO maple flavor. All I could taste was. crisco… or whatever fat laden product used in this cream. though the cream was light smooth and creamy there was not enough maple flavor for me to instantly think it’s maple. It was a pretty donut and I had high hopes, I would have even taken a picture because it is a cute looking donut.
I understand the appeal of the chocolate frosted. First, let me start out by saying people must love these because they are cake donuts. They are not normal donuts, but cake donuts. Though tasty, not too heavy tasting, but being very tasty I was happy with it. The chocolate frosting, though VERY LIGHT handed is delicious and just amount of chocolate flavor and sweetness. It could really use more chocolate frosting.
Overall, it really depends on what you order which can result in a wonderful experience or pretty subpar in experience. I first went there and I got a whoopie pie and a donut twist with raspberry on one end and lemon on the other. The twist was great. HUGE, light and fluffy. The whoopie pie is not the style I like. It was far too dense, dry and hard-​cake like. The cream in the center was lacking in flavor. Again, tasted like crisco. My second time I got a boston cream donut and something else that I don’t remember. But as you can see, if I cannot remember the second donut then it really isn’t worth remembering. The boston cream was good. But for 1.10 it should have been a little bit bigger (as you can see in the picture I posted). Also, when I was there, the display case left of the register we saw a fly sitting on a baked good. That was a turn off to say the least.
So all in all, if you like a nice cake donut, Reilly’s is for you. They have a lot of other… old world (?) baked goods. Nothing fancy, donuts, crème horns, danishes, fruit bars etc. I wasn’t super impressed, but this is the only place close enough to satisfy a donut craving that isn’t DD.

Sooo disappointed. I really wanted to like this place.
I live in MA and I called to order a special cake for my grandparent’s 50^th wedding anniversary that was taking place at my uncle’s house in Saco. I called well in advance just to make sure they could make a beautiful cake to commemorate such a day. Didn’t happen.
I called and asked them to email or fax me a list of the cake/​filling flavors they had, which they said they couldn’t do. They told me that I could check out the entire menu on their facebok page, but it wasn’t there. I had them read off the cake flavors to me, and I settled on a champagne cake with strawberry filling. I asked them if they could do a real strawberry filling to which I was more than willing to pay extra, but after checking with the head baker, they said they could only do that if I brought in the strawberries. Obviously that couldn’t happen since I live in MA, and what store owner wouldn’t go the extra mile for a customer if they were more than willing to pay more for it?
As for decorations, I specifically told the girl I spoke to that my grandparents were not «old, fogie, doilly-​typeS» — these are people that are in their early 70’s that travel all over the world and are still as active as they were when they were 20. I gave no specific directions as to the decorations, as long as it was «sophisticated, elegant, and classy».
Let me tell you what I got the day I picked it up.
The cake was as dry as dust, the strawberry preserve filling was laced with enough gelatin to make the insides weep into a strange gelatinous-​form, the frosting tasted like supermarket-​cake-​area-​best cream out-​of-​the-​jar horrible-​ness, and the decorations — it looked like a 5 year olds birthday cake!!! It would have fit in at maybe a baby shower or a little girls birthday party: people made fun of the cake all day. What about pastel colored stripes with little whirly-​gigs on top says «elegant, sophisticated, and classy»!!! It looked like a circus tent! The 5 year old kids in the house didnt even it it, nevermind the adults.
The cake was terrible, they wouldn’t go the extra mile even for more money, and the decorations were a joke — maybe the pastries are good here, but don’t ever commission a cake thru them if you want to keep your dignity at whatever function you are throwing.

2 WORDS: CHOCOLATE FROSTED!
Reilly’s is THE best when it comes to doughnuts! My grandma and grandpa always make sure to have the Reilly’s doughnuts ready for us whenever we are up in Maine to visit! They always get the cake doughnuts with the rich chocolate frosting on top and the honey-​dips! They are SOOOO good! Every time I go to Maine, my diet is ruined. But, these doughnuts make it SO worth it!
They also have great breads and more! Thanks to my Nana and Pa for introducing me to this oasis in Biddeford! I always look forward to the brown box when I get to my Nana and Pa’s! :)