You are here
When the President Comes for Dinner
January 2, 2013
January 2, 2013
Ellen Kassoff is used to the Secret Service randomly sweeping through her restaurant.
Over the past 14 years, Equinox on Connecticut Avenue has served a slew of high profile customers -- the Israeli prime minister, Hillary Clinton, President George Bush Sr. and the occasional celebrity like Jon Bon Jovi just to name a few.
But Kassoff was caught off guard after one security inspection when then President- elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle waltzed through the doors.
"We're used to security sweeps quite frequently so we thought it was just another routine check for another type of dignitary," Kassoff says. "We didn't know it was actually the president."
Read the full article.
