Spike Mendelsohn

Spike Mendelsohn
Born
Evangelos Spiros Mendelsohn

(1980-12-15) 15 December 1980
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
EducationCulinary Institute of America
Culinary career
Current restaurant(s)
    • Good Stuff Eatery (Capitol Hill & Georgetown, Washington, D.C.; Arlington & Reagan National Airport, VA; Chicago, IL; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
    • We, The Pizza (Capitol Hill & Arlington, VA)
    • Béarnaise (Washington, D.C., closed 2017)
    • Sheppard (Washington, D.C., with Mixologist David Strauss)
    • Morris American Bar (Washington, D.C., with Mixologist David Strauss)
    • Sunny's (Miami, FL)
    • Campton Yard (Miami, FL)
    • Santa Rosa Taqueria (Washington, D.C.)
Previous restaurant(s)
    • Mai house
    • Le Cirque
    • Bouchon
    • Les Crayeres
    • Pepin restaurant
Television show(s)
Award(s) won
    • The Francis Roth Leadership Award
    • Burger Bash 2009
Websitewww.chefspike.com

Evangelos Spiros "Spike" Mendelsohn (born 15 December 1980) is a Washington, D.C.–based chef and restaurateur best known as the fifth-place finisher of the fourth season of Top Chef, which aired 2008–2009. He is the chef and owner of multiple restaurants: Good Stuff Eatery, Santa Rosa Taqueria, and We, The Pizza in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 2017, Mendelsohn closed his restaurant Béarnaise in Washington's Capitol Hill and opened Santa Rosa Taqueria in its place. In 2019, Mendelsohn opened PLNT Burger, a vegan restaurant featuring Beyond Meat, inside Whole Foods Market in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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