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From left: Kathy Hollinger, Kamal Ali, Virginia Ali, Sonya Ali and David Moran celebrate Virginia Ali's receipt of the Duke Zeibert Capital Achievement Award for decades of service. (Courtesy of Ana Isabel Photography)
Posted inLifestyle

Ben’s Chili Bowl Co-Founder Honored for Decades of Service

by Eve M. Ferguson May 8, 2019December 21, 2021

Everyone calls her “Mom” or “Mrs. Ben,” but as the octogenarian co-founder of the landmark Ben’s Chili Bowl, Virginia Ali is rarely called by her first name, she recounted recently. But all of that is all right with her, because she knows that she is also the “Queen” of U Street.

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