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DCist is a big fan of Five Guys burgers. We’re sure there are healthier things out there for you, but damn they’re good. (Feel free to chime with your favorite burgers in town.) But the historian in us makes us feel sort of sad with the arrival of Five Guys in Georgetown for a piece of Cold War history has been lost: The Vitaly Yurchenko Memorial Bathroom. It was at the old Au Pied du…

When DCist was in Georgetown this past weekend strangers on three occasions came up and asked where they could find the “new burger joint” or “Five Brothers.” What they were looking for was Five Guys, the Arlington-based burger chain that is in an aggressive expansion right now, pushing into North Carolina, Delaware and now the District. Five Guys’ spot in Chinatown opened earlier this year, and office workers downtown have been making lunchtime runs for…