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.

Do Good, Eat Good

Nobody needs more reasons to eat breakfast at Cafe Flora, lunch at Tivoli, and/or dinner at Cafe Munir today. But here’s a good one: They are among the more than 150 restaurants, bars, and pop-ups in and around Seattle coming together today to raise funds for immigrant rights. Each of the restaurants will donate a portion of their sales or the proceeds from a menu item to a local nonprofit. Northwest Immigrant Rights Project is named as the beneficiary, though participating venues can choose to direct the money to other local nonprofits advancing immigrant causes. Find more info here, including the full list of participating locations (some of whom will be continuing the effort through the weekend).

Aside from having general empathy for fellow humans, immigrants' rights matter deeply to the restaurant industry. Data from a 2024 brief by the National Restaurant Association estimated that 21 percent of restaurant employees are immigrants, a number that doesn’t even factor in undocumented employees, nor those who get the food to restaurants through work in agriculture, production, and transportation. As the late Anthony Bourdain once pointed out, “If Mr. Trump deports 11 million people or whatever he’s talking about right now, every restaurant in America would shut down.”

Still Doing Good

Six months after her passing, chef Tamara Murphy’s work helping the next generation of chefs continues. The first ever Tamara Murphy Food Is Love Scholarship opened for applications this week, a partnership between the GSBA and Seattle Culinary Academy that will support LQBTQ+ students at the school.

Comings and Goings

Cute Overload: The tiny Olive Way space once home to Crumble & Flake Café Pâtisserie is once again slinging croissants. Kate Opatz, the design-minded entrepreneur behind bars Montana, La Dive, and Rich Rich, opened Laurel last week. Right now, it serves baked goods from the French Guys and coffee from Broadcast; it will have a full bar and cocktails starting Monday.

Bye-Bye Burger: Burgermaster has announced the schedule for closing its NE 45^th Street location, just east of University Village. After 73 years, it will serve its last burger on Sunday, February 23.

Hello, Burger: Fret not, you’ll still be able to get a burger in the U-District, as McDonald’s has applied for a permit to remodel the former location of Flowers.

Lunch Bunch: Jhonny Reyes first got momentum for his Lenox pop-ups with his sandwiches, before settling into a more refined menu at his Belltown brick-and-mortar (and one of 2024’s best new restaurants). Now, his Cuban and others return as the restaurant launches its weekend lunch.

All Skied Out: Seattle’s only ski lodge–themed bar, Woodsky’s, made its final turns in Fremont last week, chalking the closure up to “unfortunate circumstances.”

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