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Join us for our 6th Annual "Taste & Toast the Town" - Food, Spirits & Wine Tasting!

The 6th Annual Taste & Toast the Town!

The reviews keep rolling in; This year's Taste & Toast the Town event was the best yet!

Here's some more great news: this year's event helped ucpn gross over $51,000.00!

More than 450 guests came to Chateau Briand on September 16th to enjoy food and wine from Long Island's top resturants, bakeries and wineries.

LOOK WHO JOINED US THIS YEAR!:
57 Main Street Imports
A Taste of Home Bakery
Art Flower & Gift Shoppe
Ayhan's Shish Kebab
American Classic Ice Cream
Banfi
Blackstone Steakhouse
CMNY Cakes (Cakes by Mona)
The Cake Gallery
Chachana Grill
Chateau Briand
Ciao Baby
City Cafe
Coffee Distributing Corp.
Empire Merchants
Faropian Wines
Fedway Imports
Fox Hollow
Front Street Bakery
Iavarone Bros.
J Lohr Winery
The Melting Pot
Mim's Restaurant
Mio Posto
On the Border
Page One Restaurant
Palm Bay Imports, Inc.
Pernod Ricard USA
Sagamore
Serendipi Tea
Seventh Street Cafe
Southern Wines & Spirits
Stew Leonard's Farmingdale
Stresa
Supreme Wines
Sweet Karma Desserts
Testa Wines of the World
Tommy Bahama
Uncle Bacala's

A special thank you to:
Our chairpersons: Joe Mandaro and Kathryn Wilson.

Our sponsors: Osborne Associates, Louis Koch Insurance Agencies, Mutual of America, Testa Wines of the World, JCH Insurance Brokers, Northwestern Mutual Foundation, Citi Bank, and Corporate Values.

To our commitee members: Lisa Borgen, Mary Brosky, Michael Cannino, Peter DeSantis, Charles Evdos, Anthony Fiamma, Anthony Galano Jr., Michelle Gevirtz, Jamers C. Herrmann, Karen Kiefel, Jonathan Knox, Joe Koch, Carmela Lage, Joan Mac Naughton, Robert McGuire, Lori Meeks, Annette Montalbano, Ray Murphy, Karen Nielsen, Jim Perna, Sheila Silberglied, and George Tsunis.

The evening's judges: Lawrence Weiss, Gerard Molloy, John Murphy, Joseph Bosnac, Eric Neher, and Felix Jimenez.

Thank you Joe Mandaro and the spectacular Chateau Briand. Morris Sendor from Great Restaurants of Long Island Magazine, Telecare, and Corporate Values for supplying 400 goodie bags for our guests.

Finally, ucpn would like to thank all of our guests. See you next year!

Photo Album: click on a photo to see it full size.