Umami Burger Restaurant

It had been pouring rain in the morning in Tokyo. At around 1PM, I arrived at the Omotesando station and walked towards Kita Aoyama, the location of the popular burger restaurant.

In the midst of a fairly heavy rain, I saw the lineup was not that long. Well, such a fortunate that it was raining, so there was no long queue, or so I thought. But I could only remain in this bliss for a short while, turned out I had to queue up in a new empty building that has not become a store.

That was where I was with rows of other customers queuing for approximately an hour. Outside the building there was still quite a long queue and I was forced to open my umbrella, and withstood the cold wind with occasional rain splash on my face.



After standing for a long time staring at the customers who were sitting in the restaurant and having a conversation while eating their burgers, finally the restaurant staff who was a Western woman let me go inside.

The interior design of the restaurant

Umami Burger Menu

Umami Burger offers many options ranging from entrees such as chicken wings, ribs, edamame, fried potatoes with a variety of sauces, extra toppings for burgers, and of course the burgers themselves as the main menu that has a variety of flavors such as Umami Burger (consists of parmesan cheese, grilled shiitake mushrooms, roasted tomatoes, caramel onions, umami tomato sauce and beef burger), Truffle Burger, Manly Burger, and many others as written on the menu. My choice fell on Umami Burger as the signature



The dish finally came and I noticed a unique structure of Umami Burger that has a crisp parmesan cheese in the middle. Enticing smells burst out of thick beef meat pate cupped between the bands that tasted sweet. Not to mention I ordered the Truffle Fries as a complementary dish, smeared with cheese sauce and truffle salt, sprinkled with chives





Itadakimasu!!! Umamiiiiii .... !!! The beef was tender, mixed with parmesan cheese and umami ketchup, provided unique and addictive taste. I kept slicing the burger in front of me while occasionally forked the fries that were also dipped into the umami ketchup. Unlike most of other burgers, Umami Burger meat has a thick but soft texture and has a rich aroma from its meat.



Right after tasting the main menu, I was looking for a dessert. The restaurant only offers three desserts, which are burgers with chocolate flavored ice cream, salted caramel, and vanilla. Curious how salted caramel ice cream tasted like, finally that was what I ordered





Good thing that I chose this flavor because it tasted unique just like eating popcorn, but in the shape of an ice cream. Salty and sweet from the white sugar powder that formed the “U” letter on top of the burger that I thought it must have indicated the name of the restaurant, Umami Burger

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