I heard from someone that there is a white castle in Arlington or Alexandria...anyone know if its for real or not

Not real. Closest White Castle resturant is New Jersey or Kentucky.

NOVA lacks good fast food.

No Fatburger, in and out, W. Castle, and most of the Roy's have closed down.

I think this is one off the beltway in Kensington, MD. You can see it from the beltway.
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I dont want that castle, thanks. There is a Roys in Manassas, but I dont dare go near the place. Crappy area.

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> Not real. Closest White Castle resturant is New
> Jersey or Kentucky.
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> NOVA lacks good fast food.
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> No Fatburger, in and out, W. Castle, and most of
> the Roy's have closed down.


Roys. Ugh. There used to be Roys that I used to frequent in two notable places: Reston (now a Starbucks) and BWI Airport. It may or may not be there now.

Good (awful) cheezsteaks.

there's a roy's in alexandria (fairfax part), at the corner of rt 1 and old mill. It still seems busy during peak mealtimes.

I should add you would only catch me dead in there, and in that case it's prolly cause I ate the food.



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I've seen frozen White Castle burgers for sale in grocery stores around here before. It sorta boggles my mind too, like who the hell would want that?

The thought of getting a cheesesteak from Roy's makes me LOL. Since when is that place considered "good fast food"??? I lived near one when I was in college, and even when we were drunk off our asses we thought the place sucked. Pleh!!

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> I think this is one off the beltway in Kensington,
> MD. You can see it from the beltway.


+1

Roys ham, egg and cheese on sourdough was awesome...I used to get that before work when i had the munchies. mmmmmmmmm I miss that...I also miss having the munchies.

Good one! Great photo.
Mormon White Castle, Bethesda, Md. Right on 495.
Just a little more cult than kitchen. Paul C

While I don't think we ever have had White Castles in the DC Metro area, the local equivalent was the Little Tavern, which had several locations. I think they are all long-closed now.

Why do they call them "sliders"?

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What's a "slider"?

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http://www.cheese-burger.net/stories/sliders-mini-burgers.html

So what makes a Slider?
This is our own brief interpretation of what all sliders should have in common, if you have something to add then use the comment form below!

Most of all it’s the size, current White Castle Slyder patties are only 2.5 inches wide and very thin, the buns are just as small. Because of their size Sliders are often served in pairs, trios or even six at a time.
Next is the small square and super soft burger buns. These are custom baked just for Slyders so don’t expect the same taste and feel anywhere else. The nearest thing you can get from a grocery store might be Martin’s Potato Rolls but a lot of the flavor and softness comes from the unique White Castle cooking method.
This next point may only apply to Slyders but any good slider should always try and replicate the original. Slyders are cooked in their own special way which helps distribute flavor throughout the whole burger instead of just the beef patty.


(ignore the bad characters, apparently this site didn't use encoding="iso-8859-1" or UTF-8 in their head)

There is a Roys in Manchester Lakes Shopping Center...But as for the others it is a long trip for anything really worth while. Nothing like 20 little White Castle Burgers after a hard night of drinking..If you find something else please post as I would be interested as well as a lot of other people Im sure...Good Luck

What about Chipotle? Thats good fast food. surprisingly
Mcdonalds owns it

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The burrito bols at Chipotle are the ONLY good fast food right now in my opinion.

Also, it's not owned by McDonalds. Not for years.

There are three Roy Rogers in Alexandria (FFxCo), locally owned by the Todd family of Mt. Vernon. Never been to the Manchester Lakes location, but the ones on Route 1 (Rt 1 and Old Mill) and in the Belle View Shopping Center (second right exit off GW Parkway south of Alexandria) are great. Good food and service, clean, and they support neighborhood events and schools. They recently added a pork BBQ sandwich to the menu and make real milk-shakes with hand-dipped Hershey's ice cream. Don't believe the BS about the Route 1 location being bad -- it's right next to Woodlawn Plantation and gets lots of customers from all over the Mt. Vernon area. Also good for a quick breakfast alternative to MickeyD's.

oh man white castle is the WORST garbage on a bun ive ever tried to eat. Gristle masquerading as food. BARF on a bun I tells ya!

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> ive ever tried to eat. Gristle masquerading as
> food. BARF on a bun I tells ya!


Go to a whitecastle in midtown NYC and the whole shop is filled with vintage ads from the 50's where "doctors tell moms, the more beef you serve your kids, the healthier they'll be" or some sort of crap like that. I guess they believed that crap was healthy at some point.

There is also a Roy's in Manassas on Rt. 28 near Sheetz

You know, they do just list them on the roy rogers company site.

Alexandria - Belleview Blvd. 1506 Belleview Blvd, Alexandria, VA 22307 no

Alexandria - Woodlawn 8860 Richmond Hwy (Woodlawn), Alexandria, VA 22309 no

Franconia - Manchester Lakes Blvd. 7013-F Manchester Lakes Blvd, Franconia, VA 22310 no

Leesburg - King Street 451 S. King Street, Leesburg, VA 20175 yes

Leesburg - Market Street 540 East Market Street, Leesburg, VA 20176 yes

Manassas Park - Centreville Rd. 8502 Centreville Rd., Manassas Park, VA 22111 yes

I grew up in Chicago, and in my neighborhood, we called them sliders because they slide right in and then slide right out. Eat alot of em and you get some seriously stinking shits the next day, the classic slider fart.

ive eaten at the one in Leesburg. Roys is pretty good. I especially like the greasy bacon chez burger and the fries that come in a holster. YEEEEHAW. I wore my Tshirt I bought from a Native Amerikan vendor at a Craft show that said, "MY HEROES KILLED COWBOYS" with a pic of sitting bull crazy horse etc etc. Good times noodle salad.



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