One by one, we’re running through the 50 restaurants that made the cut on this year’s Young & Hungry Dining Guide. If you have visited the day’s featured restaurant, let us know what you think. If you’re planning to visit for the first time, tell us about your meal when you return. With each passing [...]
Much to Y&H's surprise and delight, more of you clicked on the item about Mark Furstenberg's forthcoming street food restaurant than on Obama's much overhyped (guilty as charged!) visit to Ray's Hell Burgers. Congratulations on being so damn cool. The top posts of the week: Furstenberg's Street Food Restaurant Will Stretch Far Beyond Bread-Based Snacks [...]
If you haven't heard already — and I really hope that you've been spared — Hannity, Ingraham, and other right-wing pit bulls have been attacking Obama for ordering his Ray's Hell Burger with spicy mustard, which they see as elitist or French or something so drastic that it'll mean the downfall of God and country. [...]
OK, Y&H is officially obsessed with this Ray's Hell Burger business. I will no longer claim to stop the madness. And how can you when Jon Stewart delivers this zinger about Obama's sludge-like ordering style? "I don't care if you're the president, no one in New York City is going to let you take that [...]
In the "For What It's Worth" department, Obama Foodorama is reporting that Ray's Hell Burgers was recently cited for a number of health violations, including improper food handling and under-cooking hamburgers without informing the public. ObFo waves a tsk-tsking finger at President Obama and Joe Biden for not doing their homework and for not ordering [...]
OK, I know y'all must feel like you've had it up to HERE with the Obama burger madness, but allow Y&H to add a final footnote to this presidential prole moment at Ray's Hell Burgers. Michael Landrum, over at donrockwell.com, swears that this interchange occurred between him and the prez: Actual true moment, and the [...]
What is it about hamburgers that turns this town upside down? It might be a simple roundup of new joints or it might be a March Madness-like competition. Whatever it is, Washingtonians get absolutely apoplectic around ground beef. Case in point: Obama and Biden's visit today to Ray's Hell Burgers practically elicited more media coverage [...]
Michael Landrum has never been one to suck up to the rich and powerful, so to hear the owner of Ray's Hell Burgers suddenly turn deferential to President Obama took Y&H by surprise. (Michael, I'll have the cell phone on all night, so you can call and bitch about this intro.) Getting info from the [...]
Y&H just got off the phone with Ray's Hell Burger owner, Michael Landrum. I'll have more on the president and vice president's historic hamburger visit in a minute. But first you can get a taste of Obama's authoritative ordering style.
Following up on last week's celebrity tip-off sheet, Young & Hungry has been working the phones to find out where the rich and famous have been dining this Inauguration Weekend. Here's what we've heard: Yo-Yo Ma dined at 701 on Saturday night. The Biden Family, minus the big daddy himself, enjoyed breakfast at the Oval [...]
