El Unico de Elena — Restaurant in Union City

I have been coming here for years, ive never had a bad experience except for the people on the phone who take orders occasionally forgetting things.

However, I have just today experienced one of the most disgusting situations I have ever had.

After having brought home, and after eating over half of my Picadillo, my eyes, which are very good, noticed something in my meat. Tiny strands of what I can only assume are cat hairs, holding the meat together.

I actually took the time to remove several dozen from the meat, and placed about 6 of them on to one of the black beans so they show up in my photo. There are literally hundreds. in some instances, they hold the meat together, and when you lift the meat, the hairs hold on the side of the fork some of the meat bits like a tiny rope.

I can confirm they are not strands of meat, or sinew. They are hairs. Tiny, clear, hairs....

I am a town employee and will be saving this meal for inspection when I have my office contact the health department.

I will also be ordering another, Untouched meal for inspection within...

The food is cheap here, but it also tastes cheap. The only things i come in here for are the empanadas and to get coffee and i still have to tell them how to make it. Today the server was an older lady and a young man. The lady was rude, saying i could only pay in cash. Even without giving any options she told the young man to put the food on the side. Super rude. And you can walk in and see how dirty they are, so if you don't mind eating from a dirty place, go here. And this is definitely not authentic cuban food, don't be fooled by all the reviews below saying so. The only reason you would go here is if you are in a rush and can't go anywhere else. When i moved and didn't have any pots etc i used to grab stuff from here as an emergency stop. I stopped eating here after having diarrhea and making the connection that it was from eating...

I will have to disagree with some of the comments that have been posted about the quality and quantity of the food. I don’t know if ownership has changed over the years or there is new management but the quality and quantity has definitely gone down. The Rice and beans are way over cooked and probably put up for sale the following day(s). The pork is horrible! Over cooked and dried out! If you take your food to go you will be short changed, the meat portions are super small and more rice (filler) is added instead. I’ve been coming to eat here on and off since the 90s and yes it has gone down hill. Not...