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Eat Burgers, Battle Hunger at the 2nd Annual DC Burger Battle

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Eat Burgers. Battle Hunger. It’s the 2nd Annual DC Burger Battle to benefit SOME (So Others Might Eat) on Thursday, August 23 from 6-9 p.m.

D.C.’s best burger makers are coming together at the Hill Country Backyard Barbecue at the National Building Museum to get their grills going and you’re invited. Your event admission includes burgers from each restaurant, complimentary beer, live music and games.

All ticket sales are donated, so vote for D.C.’s best burger and help SOME continue in their mission to support the 7,000 homeless people living in our city. Tickets are just $25 all-inclusive, when you use the code POP at checkout.

The restaurants serving up delicious burgers include Due South, Hill Country Barbecue, Rebellion, Stoney’s on L, Blackfinn, Hard Rock Café, B Penn Quarter, Bullfeathers, Capital Burger, Sign of the Whale and Penn Commons. Indulge in all-you-care-to-enjoy Budweiser, Bud Light and Goose Island IPA plus wine.

You’ll hear great live music from bluegrass band Trailer Grass Orchestra and Americana group Justin Trawick & The Common Good.

Don’t miss out on fun lawn games, a photo both and more. Read all about the event here.

Visit dcburgerbattle.com for tickets and more details.

After Just Under Three Years, Burger, Tap & Shake (BTS) Closed Tenleytown Location Sunday

By Prince Of Petworth


4445 Wisconsin Ave, NW

From BTS’s Facebook on Saturday June 2nd:

“Calling all of our #Tenleytown burger lovers – our location there will be closing permanently after service on Sunday. Stop by for a burger fix! All draft beers $3 all day Sunday too!”

BTS opened here in July 2015. Burger Tap & Shake remains open at 2200 Pennsylvania Ave, NW in Foggy Bottom.

The Capital Burger opening at 7th and New York Ave, NW This Month

By Prince Of Petworth

Ed. Note: Check out their menu here.

From a press release:

“The Capital Burger (1005 7th Street NW; 202-638-0414) joins Washington’s exciting restaurant scene this March, opening in Mount Vernon Square, convenient to the buzzy Shaw neighborhood, the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, and downtown’s bustling central business district. The 150-seat restaurant will offer a menu of specialty and classic burgers paired with a world-class wine program in a modern, comfortable dining room and vibrant lounge perfect for gatherings large and small. The Capital Burger will provide Washington diners a familiar, elevated service and a keen sense of hospitality – an extension of its legendary sister restaurant, The Capital Grille on Pennsylvania Avenue.

The result is a classic meal fit for an epicure; a luxury burger experience.


French Onion Burger courtesy The Capital Burger

General Manager Matt Jaffe is currently recruiting a staff of 60 who will prepare and serve an all-day menu focused on the beloved American ritual – burgers. (more…)

Five Guys Navy Yard “closed for renovations until baseball season”

By Prince Of Petworth

“Dear PoPville,

Just a heads up that Five Guys Navy Yard is closed again for “renovations”. We stopped in yesterday and they told us that they would be closed for renovations until baseball season and that they would have milkshakes available for purchase when they reopened.

This same thing happened a couple years back, and the restaurant looked the same when they reopened so I figured it was equipment or something. Stinks for the staff.”

“Five Guys DCA closed?”

By Prince Of Petworth

“Dear PoPville,

Have you heard anything about the closure of Five Guys in Terminal C (adjacent to gate 37) at DCA? I travel frequently for work, but haven’t flown from DCA in about a month; when I was last here in mid-December it was still open. The Five Guys sign is still up in the terminal, and both Five Guys and DCA’s websites still list this location as being active, but as you can see from the photos it’s been enclosed by a construction barrier.”

BURGER ALERT – Five Guys Ordered Closed Downtown, in NoMa, and L’Enfant Plaza

By Prince Of Petworth

Thanks to a reader for passing on the report from NBC Washington:

“The D.C. government has ordered the shutdown of three Five Guys restaurants in the city because the owners failed to pay sales taxes, officials say.

The locations ordered to close are at 1400 I St. NW, near the McPherson Square Metro station; at 1300 Second St. NE, near the NoMa-Gallaudet U Metro station; and in L’Enfant Plaza.”

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