Mangia 2025: See slide show below!
2025 Best Sauce Award:
Lune
White Bolognese
Congratulations!
Meet The Competing Chefs!
MICK & CHARLOTTE FORMICHELLA
Chef/owners Lune
Dennis
My name is Mick Formichella and I am the Chef Owner of LUNE.
My wife, Charlotte and I recently moved back to Cape Cod from Portland, Oregon. We have both spent the past 5 years living on the west coast - working with multiple award winning restaurants.
Charlotte leads our front of house team and is proudly a thirteenth generation Cape Codder. We are both incredibly passionate about the local landscape, produce and community. We saw a need for a modern and upscale dining experience in Dennis, and so….
We are proud to bring the LUNE experience to Cape Cod.
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DAVID WHYNOT
Owner, Lo Adoro Italian Market
Sandwich Village
David believes that food is a love language best spoken with an Italian accent.
Lo Adoro carries a carefully selected variety of wines, cheeses, pastas, olive oils, meats and pre-prepared meals. Says David "All your favorites, because delicious lives here".
Lo Adoro Italian Market
132 Route 6A
Sandwich, Massachusetts 02563
Website: https://www.loadoromarket.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/loadoromarket
Instagram: @loadoromarket
TOM BAYUK
Lead Chef, Treats Catering
Dennis Village
Tom has been "wowing" Treats' customers with his tasteful catered events for over 15 years. Treats Catering is well known from Provirncetown to Woods Hole. Says Tom, "the key ingredients that have allowed us to serve the cape so successfully all these years: homemade food, local ingredients, attention to detail, innovative and adaptive menus, and exquisite service with a casual Cape Cod approach".
Treats Catering
25 Scarsdale Road
Dennis, MA, 02638,
Website: https://www.treats-catering.com
JENI WHEELER
Co-founder & Director,
Family Table Collaborative
South Yarmouth
Jeni Wheeler is Co-Founder and Director of the Family Table Collaborative, a nonprofit that addresses the full cycle of food. Through building an army of volunteers, and in partnership with our wide array of Community Parners, including local farms, the Fisherman's Alliance and Whole Foods Market, FTC has distributed over 140,000 nutritious, delicious prepared meals, rescued, and redistributed over 55,000 additional pounds of fresh produce back into the community, while reducing waste and increasing sustainability. Jeni is also the founder and Chief Culinary Artist of Jeni's Joy, a boutique private chef company. Jeni has a MBA (05) with a focus in Social Entrepreneurship from Babson College.
Family Table Collaborative
1338 Route 28, South Yarmouth IMA
Website: https://familytablecollabprative.org
ANGELA J. RABUANO
Chef and Owner,
AJ Rabuano Private Chef & Catering
Coming from a Big Italian family, my love of food started at a very young age, as I watched my Grandmother and Mother make cavatelli by hand. I was about 12 years old when I started experiment with food.
When I landed on The Cape for the summer, (that was forty years ago). I started honing my skills in professional kitchens. I’ve work From Provincetown, to South Beach. The Virgin Islands, New York and Palm Beach as a private Chef. And I have also worked for several catering companies. Now I cater small intimate dinner and cocktails parties. Over the years I came to say that food is “my art”. And I always cook with love.
PAUL BEATTY
Personal Chef, Paul's Pantry
Cape Cod & South Shore
I grew up in a restaurant family - my parents met while working at Friendly's, later owning a breakfast/lunch/dinner eatery. After taking a 6th grade HomeEc cooking class, I soon was volunteering to prepare a weekly dinner for my family. The menu could best be described as limited yet edible. I was 11 and had been up since 5am delivering newspaper before school. By 14, I was working in commercial kitchens learning from the chefs of such Cape Cod landmarks as The Roadhouse Cafe, The Cranberry Moose, and The Red Pheasant.
In 1997, I abandoned kitchens to pursue a business career. For more than 25 years, I've filled that void by hosting family holidays, dinner parties with friends, or by brining that one dish to the potluck that everybody talked about the next day.
I'm excited to once again share my passion for real good food with the public. Dinner parties, weeknight meals, tasty treats - let me know what you need.
