What Happened to Po Dog Hot Dogs After Food Paradise? (Seattle, WA)
Food Paradise, Season 8 Seattle, Washington
Current status
As of October 2026, Po Dog Hot Dogs has closed — confirmed via Yelp, April 2026.
What the source shows: the original listing's located match was a different, unrelated Seattle business; a search found Po Dog's Capitol Hill location listed as permanently closed on Yelp, updated April 2026. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 8, Episode 3
- Address 1009 E Union St, Seattle, WA 98122
- Website hawk-dogs.com
- Show map
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What happened after Food Paradise?
The 'Weiner Takes All' episode featured Po Dog Hot Dogs, a Seattle restaurant known for gourmet hot dogs with inventive toppings. According to the Seattle Times, Po Dog offered creative takes on the classic frankfurter, and according to Seattle Magazine, the business was founded by Laura Olson and grew to operate multiple locations around the city. An initial automated location match pointed to an unrelated hot dog stand in the same neighborhood; a search found Po Dog's Capitol Hill location, at 1009 East Union Street, listed as permanently closed on Yelp, updated April 2026.
Two other Po Dog locations, in Ballard and the University District, were also listed as closed on Yelp, updated March 2026 and November 2025, respectively. No fresher dated source showing any Po Dog location open was found in the sources reviewed for this record.
The episode
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/po-dog-hot-dogs-seattle
- seattletimes.com https://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/at-po-dogs-an-inventive-makeover-for-the-humble-frankfurter/
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Record fp-0513 · checked by Cal Marchetti.