Hungry for news? Welcome to our Friday Feed, where we run through all the local food and restaurant news this week—and maybe help you figure out where to eat this weekend.

From King to Council

Hong Chhour is already breakfast royalty as owner of Rainier Valley’s King Donut, but now he hopes to give a different kind of governing a try. This week, he (along with 19 others) applied for the Seattle City Council seat left open by Tammy Morales’s resignation. While managing a doughnut shop is excellent preparation for managing a city, he also has more than a decade of experience in nonprofits and communications, including with Plymouth Housing, Friends of Little Sài Gòn, and Capitol Hill Community Council.

Remembering Binyam Wolde

The founder and owner of local hot dog stand Dirty Dog, Binyam Wolde, passed away this week at age 44. Wolde arrived in Seattle at age 16 from Ethiopia, learned English and went on to start his own business in 2010. The stand famously served through the CHOP standoffs between police and protesters, as seen in this iconic photo. A GoFundMe is collecting money for his wife and two children.

Bye-Bye Burger

The long-known impending closure of the original Burgermaster now has a timeline. Developers filed permits on the NE 45^th Street location, just east of University Village, back in 2022, and this week the locally owned mini-chain announced that—after 73 years—it will close in late February. Burgermaster currently has five other locations and is still run by late founder Phil Jensen’s grandson, Alex, and with a little involvement from Phil’s wife, too. “At 105 years old Mary is still with us and has a say in how her garden looks at University,” the company said in a statement about the closure.

Oh, BTW, here’s what you missed last week.