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May 06, 2016

The Best Breakfast Sandwiches In D.C.: Part II

Here are ten new offerings for the most important meal of the day.

Oct 01, 2015

The Twelve Best Burgers In The D.C. Area

What makes a burger great? Is it the meat? The sauce? The bun? The ability to order it off a secret menu? These are all points of heated debate among food nerds.

Mar 03, 2015

Former French Restaurants of Washington That Are Now Burger Joints: Au Pied du Cochon

The strange, bizarre history of the 24-hour French Bistro in Georgetown that’s now a Five Guys.

Mar 20, 2014

The 10 Best Fries In The D.C. Area

Fries: more than just a bland sandwich accompaniment. DCist writers share their favorite fries in the D.C. area.

Jan 02, 2012

Occupy Hamburger?

A downtown Five Guys restaurant was tagged by members of the Occupy D.C. group last night.

Sep 30, 2010

What We Learned From Dave Weigel’s Jason Chaffetz Profile

For about as long as we can remember, the District has been run by Congress. Sure, we were granted Home Rule in 1973, but even that move forward came with a glaring caveat — Congress can always overrule what local officials want to do or just force them to do things they wouldn’t otherwise want to.

Aug 16, 2010

Zagat: Five Guys Beats In-N-Out For Best Burger

Take that, California! Zagat released the results of its 2010 fast food survey and Five Guys actually beat the much-vaunted In-N-Out to win the Best Burger category. It’s a big win for the chain, even though they did finish fourth behind the first-placed Animal Stylers in the Top Food Among Large Chains category. There plenty of things to debate out the full list — like Starbucks having better coffee than Dunkin’ Donuts. (Heresy!)…

May 29, 2009

We Get It: Obama Likes Burgers

View more news videos at: http://www.nbcwashington.com/video. Courtesy of NBC4 The presidential family must be on some kind of odyssey for the best burger in the D.C. area. President Obama showed up at the Five Guys in Navy Yard today for a couple of patties with cheese, jalapenos, tomato, and mustard, for those of you keeping Obama burger diaries. NBC4 has the video clip of the President mingling with the lunchgoers. Now we know that burgers…

May 14, 2009

Five Guys Locations Closed After Visit from Inside Edition‘s ‘Rat Patrol’

Tom Lee Inside Edition’s “Rat Patrol” returned to the District this week, taking aim, perhaps predictably, at the various D.C. fast food joints recently frequented by the Obamas. The television program confirmed that two of the eateries featured in the upcoming episode were Five Guys restaurants, including the Dupont Circle location where Michelle Obama took members of her staff for lunch back in February. Indeed, the Five Guys located at 1645 Connecticut Ave NW…

Feb 22, 2009

Breaking News: Everything Bad Is Bad for You

Via Ezra Klein’s twitterfeed, this list of America’s top 10 healthiest fast food restaurants indeed does not seem so much the healthiest list that could be assembled. By my count, the D.C. area features four of these heart-healthy-in-a-hurry options: Au Bon Pain, the Corner Bakery, and, ahem, Chipotle and McDonald’s. Wait a second! Didn’t we learn from that one movie that if you eat in an absurd fashion that resembles absolutely no one’s real…

 
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