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

  • Crossroads the Clown

  • Grannie Annie

  • 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

2025 Competitors

  • Brookdale Ithaca

  • Crossroads Bar & Grille

  • Food Lab by Luna

  • Foodnet Meals on Wheels

  • Greenstar Co+op

  • The Guthrie Clinic

  • Silo Food Truck

  • Texas Roadhouse

  • The Hotel Ithaca

  • Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3)

  • Towers Social and Eatery

  • Inn at Taughannock Falls

  • June’s Cafe & Pizzeria

  • Loaves & Fishes

  • Monks on the Commons

  • Red’s Place

  • Revelry Yards

Water compliments of Culligan Water!

Sweet treats compliments of Cayuga Health!

Information Booths

  • Alzheimer's Association, Central New York

  • Cancer Resource Center

  • Catholic Charities Tompkins

  • Cayuga Health

  • Fagan Engineering

  • Finger Lakes Independence Center

  • Forest Home Chapel

  • Foodnet Meals on Wheels

  • Greater Ithaca Activities Center

  • Homesteady Health

  • Ithaca Board of Realtors

  • Ithaca Free Clinic

  • Love Living at Home

  • Maguire Hyundai Subaru

  • New York StateWide Senior Action Council

  • Racker

  • Suicide Prevention & Crisis Services

  • SUNY Upstate Medical-Clark Burn Center

  • Tompkins County Office for the Aging

  • Tompkins County Whole Health

  • United Way of Tompkins County

  • Unity House of Cayuga County, Inc.

  • Visions Federal Credit Union

  • Wegmans

  • Zach Clark State Farm

Parking & Shuttles

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

  • Spillover parking in the Arnot lot next the Farmers Market.

  • 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.
 
 

2025 Event Sponsors

Big Cheese Sponsors

Gold Plate Sponsors

  • Cargill

  • Cayuga Health

  • CFCU

  • CSP Management

  • Elmira Structures

  • Hearing Aid Consultants of CNY

  • Ithaca Board of Realtors

  • Security Mutual Insurance

  • The Guthrie Clinic

  • Tompkins Community Bank

  • True Insurance

  • Zach Clark Insurance & Financial Services, Inc.

Blue Plate Sponsors

  • Bailey Place Insurance

  • Cayuga Lake National Bank

  • Cayuga Landscape

  • Community Bank N.A.

  • Complete Payroll

  • Cornell University

  • HOLT Architects

  • Homesteady Health

  • Illume Projects

  • Law Office of Sharon Sulimowicz, LLP

  • Maguire Hyundai Subaru

  • Taitem Engineering

Silver Plate Sponsors

  • Bousquet Holstein

  • Chemung Canal Trust Company

  • Coughlin & Gerhart, LLP

  • Fagan Engineering

  • Finger Lakes Wealth Management

  • Forest Home Chapel

  • Pleasant Valley Electric

  • Schlather, Stumbar, Parks & Salk, LLP

  • Sciarabba Walker & Co, LLP

  • Visions Federal Credit Union

In-Kind Sponsors

  • 14850.com

  • Arnold Printing Corp

  • Cayuga Health

  • Cayuga Media Group

  • Cayuga Xpress

  • Cornell Print Services

  • Culligan Water

  • Finger Lakes Independence Center

  • Coleen Foley

  • Gadabout

  • Heidi Goldstein

  • Guthrie - Ithaca City Harbor

  • Ithaca College Center for Print Production

  • Ithaca Police Department

  • LAP Inc.

  • Longview

  • Frank Towner

Venue Sponsor