Cuban lunch plate: ropa vieja, shredded stewed beef, with yellow rice, black beans, and pale cassava. Shown as served except for the beans, which had arrived in a paper coffee cup; soon after, I squeezed on a thin orange sauce from a plastic bottle labeled "bien picante." Four bucks.
El Único de Elena
4211 Park Ave. (42nd-43rd Sts.), Union City, New Jersey
201-686-3071
www.ElUnicoRestaurant.com
