La Pescaderia Restaurant — Restaurant in Holyoke

The entire experience from start to finish was completely horrendous. The employees are not safe with how they handle food products, cross contaminating ready to eat cooked food with raw products by means of the utensils they use, as well as Improperly stored cooked food at unregulated temperatures. Upon receiving my meal of rice with beans and pernil (pork shoulder) I was horrifyingly disgusted when I found an artificial nail imbedded within the meal I had ordered. The appearance and atmosphere of the restaurant appeared to be badly maintained, there wasn’t a clean spot to sit and eat in the small space available in the restaurant unfortunately. The employees which were assisting with my order were very unsanitary coming in and out of the small business operation frequently after smoking a cigarette to serve customers. Overall, my experience at La Pescadería restaurant was a complete failure. I recommend no one to eat there for the sake of their health and i believe an inspection should definitely be made by local regulatory...

The best Puertorican food in town, is always packed and is worth it. The food is always fresh, those ladies are amazing chefs. This is the place that takes you back to your grandma's kitchen in Puerto Rico. The flavor of their food is the same everytime that's why it keeps me going back. From rice dishes with pigeon peas and roasted porkshoulder with fried plantains or some nice boiled yucca with onions, garlic, and olive oil. They also have quick to goes: potato balls, alcapurias ( a mix of plantains and other root veggies wrapped the amazing "picadillo" mix inside (ground meat, garlic, olives, cilantro,cumin,sazon & sofrito) is the best thing ever. Pass...

This is the most absolutely worst place I have ever eaten…. The customer service was more than awful I have never had a worse experience than I have had at this place. They were super rude and abruptly showing disrespect towards me because of my race…. And let me get onto the food oh man I had a bright red hair in my rice it was very long their food was cold and there chicken was raw.. as I read more reviews on this place I seen someone comment they had got food poisoning from the chicken as well. It makes me scared for eveyone else health so if you see this just...