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Chew on This: Where’s the Best Burger?

Written by Kate Nerenberg
| Published on June 2, 2009
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It didn’t take long for Barack and Michelle Obama to catch on to one of Washington’s latest food crazes: burgers. Since moving into the neighborhood, they’ve wasted no time in trying some of our homegrown options: Five Guys (both Barack and Michelle ate there); Good Stuff Eatery, where Michelle took her staff; and the venerable Ray’s Hell-Burger, where Barack and Joe Biden treated the press pool to lunch.

In March, EatBar was crowned the best burger in Washington in our NCAA-like burger brackets. Should the Arlington bar/lounge be the next stop for the Obamas? If not, where should they go? Let us know in the comments!

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