Evangelos

Evangelos Spiros "Spike" Mendelsohn 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, Béarnaise, and We, The Pizza in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 2013, Mendelsohn opened his newest restaurant named "Béarnaise" in Washington's Capitol Hill. Béarnaise was awarded two stars by the Washington Post.