When the D.C. Health Department came a-calling to Good Stuff Eatery last September, owner Spike Mendelsohn said the city was wrong.

Well… less than a year later the Man is getting the folks of Good Stuff Eatery down again, but this time Spike is nowhere to be found.

The Washington City Paper reports last week:

U.S. Marshals evicted Good Stuff Eatery chef and owner Spike Mendelsohn and his friend and business partner, Mike Colletti , from their Capitol Hill rental house this morning after the pair owed more than $8,000 to the landlords, said Joel Truitt , property manager for owners Brian and Elizabeth Wetzler .

When Marshals arrived at 9:30 a.m., they found neither Mendelsohn nor Colletti on the property. Instead, Truitt said, they found another man and woman apparently living there. “We don’t know who they were,” Truitt said. Marshals hauled the home’s possessions to the curb, including futons, a big-screen TV, and a table with eight chairs, the property manager said. The man found living there salvaged his own possessions, Truitt added, but allowed the rest of the stuff to be looted by people in the neighborhood.

News of the eviction comes not long after Mendelsohn started talking publicly about his takeover of Zack’s Taverna , next door to Good Stuff, and his plans to convert the joint to a pizzeria. He’s also been talking about expanding the Good Stuff brand.

Micheline Mendelsohn, Spike’s sister and Good Stuff Eatery’s spokeswoman , told CP that her brother had transferred his share of the  lease to  a Good Stuff cook months ago and was living elsewhere on Capitol Hill.

Read the full story here.

We at FamousDC are big Spike fans and are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

We do, however, question his taste in furniture. Futons? Really?