Mac ‘N Cheese Bowl

Save the Date!  May 7, 2025

The Mac ‘N Cheese Bowl is Foodnet’s signature event, raising funds to further our mission to provide food and nutritional services to vulnerable older adults and others who are unable to cook or shop for themselves in Tompkins County.

Who makes the best mac ‘n cheese in town? You decide!

Local restaurants and vendors will be whipping up their versions of everyone’s favorite comfort food. Taste them all, and vote for your favorites.

Come enjoy tastings, info booths, raffle baskets, and more!

Voting & Results

Award Categories:

  • Best Meat Mac

  • Best Non-Meat Mac

  • Best Alternative Mac

  • Most Creative Mac

  • Kids’ Choice Mac

Get your Mac Bowl "I Voted" sticker.
Winners announced the next day!

Cast your ballot at the event using the designated Voting Booths.

Entertainment

  • Mac Mavin (the official Foodnet Mac Bowl superhero!)

  • Crossroads the Clown

  • Big Cheese selfie booth

  • Kids Corner craft booth

  • Raffle booths

Raffle Tickets (cash only)

  • $5/ticket, or arms-length for $20

  • Winners announced & contacted the week following the event

2024 Competitors

  • Foodnet Meals on Wheels

  • Fittnell Barbeque

  • Foodnet Meals on Wheels

  • GreenStar Food Co+op

  • Kendal at Ithaca

  • Kiely's Cooking LLC

  • Longview

  • Luna Inspired Street Food

  • Adam's Corner Cafe

  • Antlers Restaurant with Scooter's BBQ

  • Brookdale Ithaca

  • Cayuga Health System

  • Coltivare

  • Cornell Catering

  • Crossroads Bar & Grille

  • Nu Spice Catering

  • Revelry Yards

  • Silo Food Truck

  • Texas Roadhouse

  • The Hotel Ithaca

  • The Strand Cafe

  • Towers at Ithaca College

Sweet treats compliments of Cayuga Health!

Information Booths

  • 1 Step Coaching & Consulting

  • Alcohol & Drug Council of Tompkins County

  • Alzheimer's Association, Central New York

  • AmeriCorps Seniors

  • Cancer Resource Center

  • Catholic Charities Tompkins

  • CFCU Community Credit Union

  • Coughlin & Gerhart, LLP

  • Finger Lakes Independence Center

  • Forest Home Chapel

  • Foodnet Meals on Wheels

  • INHS

  • Ithaca Board of REALTORS

  • Kendal at Ithaca

  • Lifelong

  • Longview

  • Love Living at Home

  • New York StateWide Senior Action Council

  • Tompkins County Dairy Promotion Committee

  • Tompkins County Office for the Aging

  • Tompkins County Whole Health

  • Unity House

  • Vision Federal Credit Union

  • Wegmans

  • Zach Clark State Farm

  • Zufall Communications

Parking & Shuttles

  • Parking available at the Ithaca Farmers Market, spots fill quickly.

  • Additional parking at the DMV lot on 3rd Street and Guthrie Ithaca City Harbor on Willow Ave. 

  • Gadabout and Longview shuttles available to and from DMV overflow lot.

 
 

2024 Event Sponsors

Big Cheese Sponsors

Gold Plate Sponsors

  • Cargill

  • Cayuga Health System

  • CFCU

  • CSP Management

  • Ithaca Board of Realtors

  • Security Mutual Insurance

  • The Guthrie Clinic

  • Tompkins Community Bank

  • Zach Clark Insurance & Financial Services, Inc.

Blue Plate Sponsors

  • Cayuga Lake National Bank

  • Cayuga Landscape

  • Community Bank N.A.

  • Complete Payroll

  • Crown Construction

  • Law Offices of Sharon Sulimowicz, LLP

  • Zufall Communications

Silver Plate Sponsors

  • 1 Step Coaching and Consulting

  • Chemung Canal Trust Company

  • Finger Lakes Wealth Management

  • Forest Home Chapel

  • Miller Mayer LLP

  • Pleasant Valley Electric

  • Schlather, Stumbar, Parks & Salk, LLP

  • Sciarabba Walker & Co, LLP

  • Tompkins Insurance Agencies

  • Visions Federal Credit Union

In-Kind Sponsors

  • 14850.com

  • Arnold's Printing Corp

  • Cornell Print Services

  • Finger Lakes Independence Center

  • Ithaca Police Department

  • Ithaca College Center for Print Production

  • Gadabout

  • Longview

Venue Sponsor