Skip navigation

Obama, Biden raise some Hell Burgers

President, vice president motorcade to local grill for lunch

Video
  Obama, Biden make a burger run
May 5: President Barack and Obama and Vice President Joe Biden enjoyed a bite of everyday life Tuesday at Ray's Hell Burger in Arlington, Virginia. NBC's Ann Curry reports.

Nightly News

Video: White House  
  
White House suffers security breach
Nov. 27: The Secret Service says it  discovered how an uninvited couple managed to gain access to Tuesday’s state dinner. NBC’s Savannah Guthrie has the latest.

  Tweets from inside the Beltway

  1. Loading the latest posts…

Click here for more tweets from NBC's D.C. bureau.

Interactive
Explore a 3-D White House
Check out historical info, photos, and panoramic images.
White House visitor logs
Image: The White House
Public records
Help figure out who has been visiting the White House during the first eight months of the Obama administration.
updated 4:02 p.m. ET May 5, 2009

ARLINGTON, Va. - It's like this: When you want a burger, you have to have a burger.

In this state of mind, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden took a short — but wholly noticeable — motorcade ride from the White House to Virginia and pulled into a small, independent burger joint called Ray's Hell Burger.

The two leaders went right up to the counter where the meat was being grilled and ordered.

Story continues below ↓
advertisement | your ad here

Each fetched cash from his pocket and paid, and then the pair stood like the rest and waited for their number to be called before going to a table.

The restaurant, which prides itself on premium aged 10-ounce burgers, sits in a small strip plaza. The burgers sell for $6.95.

Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Sponsored links

Resource guide