Moviehouse brings food truck to Millerton

To complement its prescreening of the film “Chef,” Wednesday, May 6, Millerton’s Moviehouse enlisted Hudson Valley food truck, Black Forest Flammkuchen Co., to offer the village an alternative kind of dinner — one purchased out of a truck and eaten with other patrons on the corner of Main Street and Dutchess Avenue.More common in cities and larger towns, the Flammobile, as its owners referred to it, parked on Dutchess was somewhat of a novelty to Millerton residents.“I was so excited that a food truck was going to be in Millerton,” said resident Alanna Mulligan, who purchased one of its German flatbreads. The truck served dinner from 4 to 7 p.m., and the weather appeared to be on its side, as Webutuck Elementary School teacher and Amenia resident Michelle Smith observed.“I would sit there all the time on a beautiful day,” Smith said, referring to the tables and chairs brought down from The Moviehouse café and set out for the occasion in front of Veterans’ Park.The truck, based this year out of Kinderhook, was enlisted by The Moviehouse to bring a local connection to the subject of the film. “Chef,” which screened just after the Flammobile closed at 7 p.m., is the story of a frustrated cook who leaves the restaurant business and opens a food truck. The screening was part the New York Film Critics Series, which offers “a sneak peek at the latest upcoming movies before they are released,” followed by a live-streamed question-and-answer session with the cast and crew, exclusively in select theaters.According to Moviehouse Director of Public Relations Helen Seslowsky, the screening sold out and was a “huge hit.”“The audience gave it a standing ovation at the end,” she said.For some, however, the day’s highlight may have been the Flammobile.“This is a great addition to the community,” said Bev Reich from Salisbury, Conn., “and food trucks should be traveling all throughout our towns.”