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Team Cooking Contests

  Pasta La Vista - 2024 Spaghetti Gravy Winner!  

 

 

 Spaghetti Gravy

Saturday, May 31   12:00 p.m.

Making the best Spaghetti Gravy is the pinnacle of Italian cooking!  You’ll compete with some of the BEST Gravy makers in Memphis for cash prizes and ABSOLUTE bragging rights.  Each cooking team enters one 20 oz. sample to be judged on-site by a panel of gravy experts.  The best Gravy takes it all!

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Anything Italian

Friday,  May 30   6:00-6:30 p.m.

Anything Italian is wide open, cooking creativity! Each cooking team enters one appetizer, entree or dessert dish that best delivers the essence of Italian cooking. Contestants are judged by a committee on creativity, taste and “Italian-ness”.

Registration Details

If you have any questions or need to make arrangements, please call Vickie & Richard Ranson at (901) 606-5123 or

email: theransons@bellsouth.net

Other Fun Italian Contests

Saturday,  May 31    All Day

After you’re finished proving your gravy, compete in our other FUN events!  Homemade Wine, Best Happy Hour Drink, Best Booth, Best Powder Room and Best T-Shirt are all fun, light-hearted competitions that EVERYONE can enjoy.

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Peoples Choice

Saturday,  May 31   2:30 pm – 5:30 pm

People’s Choice is just what it says, the public’s FAVORITE choice! The top six cooking teams in previous year’s Spaghetti Gravy contest each enter one Spaghetti Gravy sampling that is blindly judged by festival goers who make a donation to participate. Each donation is allocated to the gravy that each tester liked the best. Once totaled, the People’s Choice is awarded to the cooking team that received the most donations!

All proceeds from the People’s Choice will benefit The Holy Rosary School ANGEL Program, so come out to the festival, sample some great spaghetti gravy and help raise money for some very special kids! The ANGEL Program offers year round intensive instruction for children living with autism using innovative teaching techniques.

Learn more about the Angel Program - Click Here

Memphis Italian Festival 2025
Team Cooking Contest Winners

Spaghetti Gravy Contest

1st Place – Molti Cuigini
2nd Place – Pasianos
3rd Place – Pasta La Vista
4th Pla
ce – Italian Vagrants
5th Place – Luigi & Pasquale's
6th Place – La Familia Battristelli

BLIND Spaghetti Gravy Contest

1st Place – Bada Bing Bada Boom

Anything Italian Contest

 

Tied for 1st Place – 
    Meatball So Hard

    Pasta Pigs

2nd Place –  Pasta La Vista
 

Homemade Wine Contest

1st Place – Paisanos
2nd Place – Pasta Famiglia
3rd Place – Eat, Drink & Be Italian

 

 

  

Best Happy Hour Drink

1st Place – Two Italians Lotsa Rednecks

Best Booth Contest

1st Place – Holy Cannoli

2nd Place – Pasta Pigs

3rd Place – Pasta Famiglia

Powder Room Contest

1st Place – Pasta Famiglia
2nd Place – The Alfredo Brothers
3rd Place – Pasta La Vista

Team Shirt Contest

1st Place – Venetian Villa'ns

2nd Place – Thursday Night Italians

3rd Place – Paisanos

Peoples Choice Award

Foodfellas

 

Congratulazioni a tutti!

Father Milton Guthrie “You’re Great” Award

Luigi & Pasquale's

Cornhole Contest

1st Place – Luigi & Pasquale's

2nd Place – Mama Biondini's

Grape Stomp Contest

Garboulucci's
 

Wine Race

Two Italians Lotsa Rednecks

The Bob Noonan Founders Award -2025

Daniel Russell

Presented by Holy Rosary Parish

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