Spike Mendelsohn

Birth Name:

Evangelos Spiros Mendelsohn

Birth Place:

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Profession

Producer

The Inn at Little Washington: A Delicious Documentary

Life After Top Chef Stars: Then and Now

Top Chef will launch yet another spin-off on Wednesday, but this one will not feature any masters or just desserts. In fact, it's not a competition series at all. Life After Top Chef (10/9c, Bravo) will instead do exactly as the title says: offer a behind-the-scenes look at former cheftestants as they run or open restaurants, expand their brands and live their lives.Vote: Which fall premieres won you over? Which flopped?The cast includes two-time cheftestants Spike Mendelsohn, Fabio Viviani, Richard Blais and Jennifer Carroll, each of whom are in varying stages of their careers since viewers last saw them on All-Stars nearly two years ago. So what have they been up to? And what can you expect this season? Keep reading to find out.

Wed, Oct 3, 2012

Next Iron Chef's Spike on the New Twist, "Culinary Assassin" Anthony Bourdain

Chef Spike Mendelsohn may have competed on Bravo's culinary reality show Top Chef -- twice -- but he still didn't expect to be recruited for Food Network's Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs, which premieres Sunday at 9/8c. "I got the phone call out of nowhere. I was actually quite surprised," Mendelsohn tells TVGuide.com. "I didn't expect them to cast me as part of this crew, alongside the other ones. I was definitely honored to have the opportunity. There are a lot of chefs involved that I look up to and I follow their careers. To be standing next to them, was kind of like, 'OK, you made it.'"

Thu, Oct 27, 2011

Next Iron Chef's Spike on the New Twist, "Culinary Assassin" Anthony Bourdain

Top Chef's Richard: I Wanted to Embody the Spirit of the Underdog

After two years, Richard Blais finally "exorcised his demons" about losing Season 4 of Top Chef by winning All-Stars. So does it mean more to win an all-stars edition as opposed to a regular season? "I think so, for sure," he tells TVGuide.com. "I had to wait two years to get another opportunity. It just worked out really well. I learned a lot from the first time around. I think winning All-Stars — the field and the competition are a lot deeper." See what else the Season 8 champ has to say about his victory, if he really needs to see a therapist and if he'll take Fabio to Barbados.

Fri, Apr 1, 2011

Top Chef's Richard: I Wanted to Embody the Spirit of the Underdog

Top Moments: Dancing's Lip-Lock, Grey's Musical Medicine and a Top Chef Spy

Our top moments of the week:11. Worst Reminder: When Tamra and Vicki head South of the Border to Cabo San Lucas on The Real Housewives of Orange County, Tamra decides to "do as the Cabo-nians do" and do a body shot at the poolside bar. She urges her friend to do the same, but Vicki is far too mortified and reminds Tamra that she's the mother of four. Well, we guess someone has to teach them eventually, right?10. Skating on Thin Ice Award: There's a time and a place to speak your mind, Bethenny, and your first practice session ...

Fri, Apr 1, 2011

Top Moments: Dancing's Lip-Lock, Grey's Musical Medicine and a Top Chef Spy

Top Chef's Marcel Baffled Jamie Lasted So Long

Jamie Lauren packed her knives on this week's episode of Top Chef: All-Stars, but fellow contestant Marcel Vigneron thought the elimination was long overdue. "My friends and I were watching the episode last night, and one of the persons in the room was like, 'Who is she sleeping with?'" he told TVGuide.com Thursday while promoting his upcoming Syfy show, Marcel's Quantum Kitchen, at the Television Critics Association's winter previews. Top Chef's Jamie: I Got a Bad Edit "It seemed like she was dodging bullets constantly:

Fri, Jan 14, 2011