Spike Mendelsohn's Good Stuff Eatery is opening in Crystal City next week, and he's rolled out a video promoting it. more ›

If you've got any wild dreams of culinary stardom, spruce up that résumé and tighten up those recipes -- Top Chef is hosting a local casting call for its tenth season tomorrow. more ›

Good Stuff Eatery and Co Co. Sala introduce milkshake-inspired chocolates just in time for Valentine's Day. more ›

Spike Mendelsohn will reportedly double-down in the Washington region -- Washingtonian reports that Mendelsohn will open new Good Stuff Eateries in both Georgetown and Crystal City next year. more ›

Sixth & Rye, Spike Mendelsohn's new kosher deli food truck, debuted this morning on the curb outside the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. Lines, unsurprisingly, were long -- but the product was worth the wait. more ›

One interview, some very angry reactions and around a hundred comments about whether or not he was right or not later, and Spike Mendelsohn had little choice but to respond to his comments claiming that "it is nice to be in a second-tier city where you can be a big fish in a small pond." more ›

That's according to The Feast, who interviewed the fedora-ed one during the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Mendelsohn said in the chat that he's started a franchising company and plans to expand his Good Stuff Eatery concept across the country, beginning with Philadelphia, Chicago (gotta maintain that Obama favor, after all) and another location in D.C. more ›

Top Chef All-Stars premieres at 10 p.m. tonight on Bravo. This season features top contestants from the show's previous seasons squaring off for a second chance at becoming a Top Chef. Luckily for D.C., we've got the culinary chops to have three hometown toques competing in the competition: Carla Hall, Mike Isabella and the darling of the DCist commentariat himself, Spike Mendelsohn. more ›

The Source's Scott Drewno came out on top at D.C. Central Kitchen's 7th annual Capital Food Fight, which took place last night at the Ronald Reagan Building. The Fight pitted Chefs Victor Albisu (BLT Steak), Will Artley (Evening Star Cafe), Spike Mendelsohn (Good Stuff Eatery and We, the Pizza) and Drewno against each other in an Iron Chef-style cooking competition. more ›

With the completion of Top Chef D.C. -- you can relive our coverage of the entire season here -- we're all still rubbing our eyes a bit from malaise. Last night, Bravo announced that they've decided to go back and revisit some of our favorite contestants with Top Chef All Stars. more ›

Former Top Chef contestant Spike Mendelsohn's New York-style pizza joint has been a long time coming. But now we know that We, the Pizza is set to open next door to Good Stuff Eatery on July 12. The pizzeria will feature regional ingredients like creamed spinach, pancetta and shaved truffles as well as the usual standards like pepperoni and mozzarella. more ›

Heeb Magazine for the fourth year in a row put together their Heeb 100 list, which debuted in the fall. It's the top 100 young Jews to keep an eye out for (according to the magazine, anyway), and five Washingtonians are on the list. A new portrait exhibition of those up-and-comers will debut in D.C. tonight at the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue, with a reception from 7-9 p.m. featuring some of the honorees. Plus free knishes & ruggelach! more ›

Not that it'll be that hard. Jumbo Slice-bashing aside, former Top Chef contestant Spike Mendelsohn is planning to branch out from his signature Good Stuff Eatery's burgers into another facet of the upscale fast food trend: pizza. He's been eating his way through New York's pizza in order to "research" the new establishment, which will open in the next three to four months, according to a journal he kept last week for New York Magazine. more ›

Former Top Chef contestant Spike Mendelsohn packed the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue on Sunday, the first night of Hanukkah, for a lesson in latkes. At Latke Mania, the reality TV personality turned Good Stuff Eatery burger slinger earned laughs lighting a menorah with a butane torch, struggling through candle lighting prayers he said he stayed up all night learning, and bantering with his sous chef for the evening—his mom. more ›

Tune in to Bravo tonight at 10 p.m. to cheer on local Top Chef cheftestant Carla Hall and her ridiculously awesome hair. The show's new season, which was filmed for the first time in New York, premieres tonight. And for those who can't get enough, Good Stuff Eatery's Spike Mendelsohn will be chatting about the premiere episode tomorrow on Washingtonian.com. more ›

The media has long been hovering around former Top Chef contestant Spike Mendelsohn and his D.C. burger joint, Good Stuff Eatery. The latest is this WTOP report about health violations at the restaurant. According to the story, the restaurant was cited for storing beef in the alley behind the restaurant; photos of buns by the dumpster have apparently surfaces. Mendelsohn explained that they were in the alley for only a few minutes after a delivery. more ›

It has been a little over a week since Good Stuff Eatery opened and the hoopla surrounding Capitol Hill's newest burger joint has been monumental. Last night, owners Spike Mendelsohn and his family celebrated the official opening with a red carpet ribbon cutting and - a treat for D.C.'s reality TV fans - a mini-reunion of his fellow Top Chef contestants. more ›