Umami Burger featuring a Parmesan tuile, roasted tomato, and caramelized onions. [Photograph: Damon Gambuto]

Popular Los Angeles-based burger mini chain Umami Burger (AHT review) is coming to New York City at the end of 2012, reports Grub Street. Hospitality group SBE has joined with Umami Restaurant Group founder/chief executive Adam Fleischman for the national expansion, which will include a fast food burger concept called U-ko. Nation's Restaurant News has more details about the upcoming restaurants, including a combination of 25 new Umami Burgers and U-ko locations by the end of 2013, the first UMAMIcatessen (Umami Burger, kosher deli, and charcuterie bar) in Los Angeles in November, and a pizza concept called 800°.