Mac ‘N Cheese Bowl

MAY 6, 2026 | 4:30-7pm

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 Tompkins County? You decide!

~20 local restaurants, caterers, food truck and other eateries 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!

Locale: Ithaca Farmers Market, Steamboat Landing, 545 3rd St, Ithaca, NY 14850

2026 Competitors

  • Brookdale Ithaca

  • Crossroads Bar & Grille

  • Fittnell Barbeque

  • Foodnet Meals on Wheels

  • Greenstar Co+op

  • Hotel Ithaca

  • Loaves & Fishes

  • Longview

  • Monks on the Commons

  • Silo Food Truck

  • Texas Roadhouse

  • The Strand

  • Inn at Taughannock Falls

  • Ithaca College Dining

  • Ithaca Downtown Conference Center

  • June’s Cafe & Pizzeria

  • Kendal at Ithaca

  • Kiely’s Cooking

Water compliments of Culligan Water!

Sweet treats compliments of Cayuga Health!

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.

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Entertainment

  • 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

Information Booths

  • 14850.com

  • Advocacy Center of Tompkins County

  • Alzheimer's Association of Central NY

  • Beginnings Credit Union

  • Bousquet Holstein

  • Cancer Resource Center

  • Cancer Services Program

  • Cayuga Landscape

  • Centralus Health

  • Chemung Canal Trust Company

  • Community Bank

  • Coughlin & Gerhart LLP

  • Culligan Water

  • Downtown Ithaca Children Center

  • Fagan Engineers & Land Surveyors, PC

  • Finger Lakes Independence CenterForest Home Chapel

  • Foodnet Meals on WheelsHomeSteady Health Direct Primary Care

  • Hospicare and Palliative Care Services

  • Ithaca Board of Realtors

  • Ithaca Farmers Market

  • LawNY

  • Levene Gouldin & Thompson, LLP

  • Lifelong

  • Love Living at Home

  • Maguire Foundation

  • Racker

  • Suicide Prevention & Crisis Service of Tompkins County

  • Security Mutual Group

  • The YMCA of Ithaca and Tompkins County

  • Tompkins County Office for the Aging

  • Tompkins County Public Library

  • Tompkins County Suicide Prevention Coalition

  • Tompkins County Whole Health

  • United Way of Tompkins County

  • Unity House

  • Visions Federal Credit Union

  • Visit Ithaca & Tompkins Chamber

  • Wegmans

  • Williamson Financial Services

  • Wonderful Wheelchairs

  • 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.

Ithaca Farmers Market Map

 

DMV Map

 

Guthrie Map

2026 Event Sponsors

Big Cheese Sponsors

Gold Plate Sponsors

  • Beginnings Credit Union

  • Bousquet Holstein PLLC

  • Cargill

  • Centralus Health

  • CSP Management

  • Elmira Structures

  • Hearing Aid Consultants of CNY

  • Ithaca Board of Realtors

  • Levene, Gouldin & Thompson LLP

  • Security Mutual Insurance

  • Tompkins Community Bank

  • True Insurance

Blue Plate Special Sponsors

  • 1 Step Coaching and Consulting

  • Bailey Place Insurance

  • Cayuga Lake National Bank

  • Cayuga Landscape

  • Community Bank N.A.

  • Complete Payroll

  • First Baptist Church in Ithaca

  • Homesteady Health

  • Illume Projects

  • Law Office of Sharon Sulimowicz, LLP

  • Ridge Road Imports

Silver Plate Sponsors

  • Chemung Canal Trust Company

  • Cornell University

  • Coughlin & Gerhart, LLP

  • Fagan Engineers & Land Surveyors, P.C.

  • Fingerlakes Wealth Management

  • Forest Home Chapel

  • Maguire Foundation

  • Munson Tires

  • PMV Legal

  • Sciarabba Walker & Co, LLP

  • Tompkins Insurance Agencies

  • United Way of Tompkins County

  • Visions Federal Credit Union

  • Williamson Financial Services

  • Zach Clark Insurance & Financial Services, Inc.

In-Kind Sponsors

  • 14850.com

  • Arnold Printing Corp

  • Mike Carroll

  • Cayuga Health

  • Cayuga Media Group

  • Cayuga Xpress

  • Cornell Print Services

  • Culligan Water

  • Dataflow

  • David Dier

  • Finger Lakes Independence Center

  • Gadabout Transportation

  • Guthrie - Ithaca City Harbor

  • HOLT Architects

  • Ithaca College Center for Print Production

  • Ithaca Farmers Market

  • Ithaca Police Department

  • LAP Inc.

  • Longview

  • Park Outdoor Advertising

Venue Sponsor
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