Berkeley’s Andy Samberg gives back with a burger

The new Samburger, created by TV star and Berkeley native Andy Samberg. Photo: Umami Burger

Thanks to comedian Andy Samberg, a Berkeley native, every time Umami Burger sells its new creation, The Samberger, Berkeley’s Center for Early Intervention on Deafness (CEID) will get a dollar.

The new Samberger comes with Chicago-style hotdog toppings: peppers, roasted tomatoes, dill pickles, a kombu relish, roasted garlic aioli, poppy seeds and yellow mustard. It sells for $13 and can be enjoyed in the East Bay at Oakland’s Umani restaurant at 2100 Franklin St.

The Saturday Night Live and Brooklyn Nine-Nine star, who apparently has no connection to Chicago other than liking its hotdogs, pointed out in a press release that the burger “has literally nothing to do with me. But it tasted really good so we went with it.”(...)

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