Cassie Piuma is an American chef and restaurateur, at Sarma, a restaurant in Somerville, Massachusetts that she owns with Ana Sortun.[1] Her husband, Matthew Piuma, whom she met in college, is also a co-owner.[2]
Piuma has been nominated multiple times for the James Beard Foundation Award Best chef in the Northeast category (2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020[3] and 2022[5]). Boston (magazine), in 2020, named her Best Chef, General Excellence, in Boston,[6] In 2014, she was named Best Chef in the Up and Coming category.[7]