Got a call last night from Ericka Burke, co-founder and chef of Volunteer Park Cafe and consulting chef at the hottest new Capitol Hill commissary, Oddfellows Cafe.

Last Friday, it seems, was her last day at Oddfellows. Trouble with owner, the visionary bar-maker Linda Derschang? “No, no, oh God no,” Burke told me. “Linda’s great. It’s just that Volunteer Park Cafe was suffering a little in my absence. I needed to get back to it.”

Consulting at Oddfellows during the transition will be Matt Dillon of Sitka & Spruce and The Corson Building, who will hold the fort and oversee the search for a new Burke.