Restaurants & Bars

Big Buns Restaurant Opens In McLean Shopping Center Next To Lidl

Big Buns Damn Good Burgers, the regional chain known for designer burgers, fancy shakes and a variety of cocktails, is now open in McLean.

Big Buns Damn Good Burgers, the regional chain known for big burgers, fancy shakes and a variety of cocktails, is now open on Chain Bridge Road in McLean.
Big Buns Damn Good Burgers, the regional chain known for big burgers, fancy shakes and a variety of cocktails, is now open on Chain Bridge Road in McLean. (Mark Hand/Patch)

MCLEAN, VA — Big Buns Damn Good Burgers, the regional chain known for big burgers, fancy shakes and a variety of cocktails, is now open on Chain Bridge Road in McLean.

The restaurant, the chain’s eighth location in Virginia, opened two weeks ago.

Big Buns serves designer burgers, along with chicken sandwiches and veggie burgers. A wide variety of side dishes include Cajun fries, queso cheese fries, jammin’ sprouts and Cajun Nugz.

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Beer, along with Beltway Banditos with a house margarita mix, make-your-own mules and other cocktails, are also on the menu.

Big Buns Damn Good Burgers, the regional chain known for big burgers, fancy shakes and a variety of cocktails, is now open on Chain Bridge Road in McLean. (Mark Hand/Patch)

The McLean restaurant is located at 1336 Chain Bridge Road, in the same shopping center where the Lidl grocery store opened last year.

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Started by Craig Carey and chef Tom Racosky, Big Buns opened its first restaurant in the Ballston neighborhood in Arlington in 2007, FFXnow reported.

Its other Virginia locations are in the Shirlington neighborhood of Arlington, Vienna, Fairfax City, Reston, two restaurants in Herndon.


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