It's National Hamburger Month: Where are Alexandria's Best Burgers?

Any hamburger connoisseurs out there?

May is National Hamburger Month in Arlington and across the country, and where the best burger in Arlington is depends on which carnivore you ask.

A lot of people in Alexandria's West End associated burgers with Fuddruckers. But with Fuddruckers closed and Burger 7 still not open, where do you go?

According to Yelp.com reviewers, Five Guys (which has locations near Old Town) gets high marks. 

Holy Cow in Del Ray also gets good reviews. 

We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments section below.  

The Chicago Tribune has compiled a list of facts you may not know about burgers. 

Americans eat an astounding 48 billion burgers a year, or about three per week per person. While burgers are pretty cheap, getting them to our table isn't. According to the Center for Investigative Reporting, 6.5 pounds of greenhouse gases are produced to make one tasty quarter-pounder. Over a year, that's equal to 34 coal-fired power plants. If you were willing to give up one burger a week, it would be like not driving your car 350 miles.

And, Colleen Walsh Fong blogs about the origins of the hamburger on one of our sister Patch sites.