Spike Mendelsohn Biography
Spike Mendelsohn is a chef and restaurateur headquartered in Washington, D.C. He is most known for finishing fifth on the fourth season of Top Chef, which ran from 2008 to 2009. He is the chef and proprietor of several restaurants in Washington, D.C., including Good Stuff Eatery, Santa Rosa Taqueria, and We, The Pizza.
How old is Spike Mendelsohn? – Age
He is 42 years old as of 15 December 2022. He was born in 1980 in Montreal, Canada. His real name is Evangelos Spiros Mendelsohn.
Spike Mendelsohn Family – Education
His father is Jewish and his mother is Greek.Spike’s family relocated to Seville, Spain, when he was thirteen years old, in 1993. He attended school in Marbella, Spain, while his family lived there for three and a half years. The family later relocated to Clearwater Beach, Florida. They owned and operated the Pepin restaurant in St. Petersburg, Florida, until it was sold in 2004. When he was younger, Mendelsohn worked at Pepin as a “busboy, dishwasher, [and] pinch-hitting as a cook when we were short staffed.”
Mendelsohn graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 2005. Mendelsohn met American Chef Marcel Vigneron at the institute where he was studying.
Spike Mendelsohn Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Spike Mendelsohn Restaurants
He is the chef and proprietor of several restaurants in Washington, D.C., including Good Stuff Eatery, Santa Rosa Taqueria, and We, The Pizza. Mendelsohn closed his restaurant Béarnaise on Washington’s Capitol Hill in the summer of 2017 and launched Santa Rosa Taqueria in its place. In 2019, Mendelsohn debuted PLNT Burger inside Whole Foods Market in Silver Spring, Maryland, a vegan restaurant featuring Beyond Meat.
Mendelsohn graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 2005. Mendelsohn met American Chef Marcel Vigneron at the institute where he was studying. Since then, Mendelsohn has worked for chefs such as Gerard Boyer of Reims, France, Thomas Keller of The French Laundry and Bouchon in Napa Valley, California, Sirio Maccioni of Le Cirque, and Drew Neiporent’s Mai House in New York City. In an interview, Mendelsohn stated, “my family has been in the [restaurant] business for centuries — my father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.” Spike’s family founded the Sunnyside Restaurant Group in Washington, D.C. in 2008, which includes the restaurants “Good Stuff Eatery,” “We, The Pizza,” and “Santa Rosa Taqueria.”
Spike Mendelsohn Iron Chef
Mendelsohn made his broadcast debut on the Bravo TV show Top Chef: Chicago. He has also been on Bravo TV’s Life After Top Chef (which aired in the fall of 2012) and Top Chef: All Stars (which aired in December 2010), Food Network’s Iron Chef America, and Spike TV’s Bar Rescue.
Iron Chef America is an American culinary show based on Fuji Television’s Iron Chef, the second American adaptation following the failure of Iron Chef USA in 2001. The show is a culinary game show produced by Food Network in which a new challenger chef competes against one of the resident “Iron Chefs” in a one-hour cooking competition.
The show is marketed as a sequel to the original Iron Chef, with actor and martial artist Mark Dacascos as the Chairman. Kevin Brauch is the floor reporter, and Alton Brown gives commentary. Craig Marks composed the music and published the soundtrack “Iron Chef America & The Next Iron Chef” at the end of 2010. For rare battles, Ted Allen gives additional floor commentary.