Sabor Unido
“not expensive and you always leave with leftovers.”
“I was going to order flan for dessert, when the owner recommended the Bavaroise.”
“Highly recommend the grilled squid, steak, salad, collard greens, tilapia, breaded banana.”
Sabor Unido
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Outdoor Seating: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
6 reviews
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What a surprise! A coworker chose to come here for his going-away party based off of Yelp reviews. I was excited to see that they had an amazing rating so we took a $35 Uber ride there around 12:00 on a Thursday.
We walk past a random sex-shop that's on the corner (super awkward when you're with other people in HR) and we walk in. There's literally ZERO people inside aside from the people who work there. We get seated and wait…a while. Then someone brings 6 paper menus for 7 people. When we ask for another, they said there's no more. Weird but I guess not that weird in a totally empty restaurant (maybe?). We ordered some fresh squeezed juices and our food and then waited.
We waited maybe 30 minutes while people started to trickle in. Pretty soon, almost the whole restaurant was full and other people had started getting their food. Still we waited for our juice while people who had ordered steak and salad and soup and everything else.
Granted there were 7 of us but it took a really long time to get our drinks then another not unsubstantial wait for the food. But once the food arrived, it was GOOD and PLENTIFUL!
Tons of fluffy rice, yummy beans, and plantains for shared sides. One coworker ordered the shrimp which were delicious and full of garlic and punchy orange sauce. Another ordered the whole grilled snapper (when he asked them to remove the head they looked at him funny – he deserved it) and scarfed the whole thing without sharing, the meanie! I ordered the beef stew from the list of specials on the board. It was REALLY good with potatoes, carrots, and soft chunks of beef in a thick brown gravy ($13 I think).
Several of my coworkers are vegetarians and this place was a bit tough for them. The vegetarian dish consists of your choice of 4 sides, most of which are starchy-starchfest. The sauteed kale was ordered and it was really good but essentially, the other coworkers had to settle for plantains and rice.
Overall, it was tasty and the people were nice…even if it took a while.
Best customer experience hands down!!!!
Calamari was yum
The picidaio plate was out of this world.
Salad was delicious with just the right amount of dressing
Fried Banana was scrumptious
Will be back again when I return to Newark for business
grilled squid is great. great , reasonably priced Portuguese and Brazilian food. very friendly nice waitress ) the menu has a mixture of Portuguese and Brazilian items.
My two friends and I happened on to this cute restaurant before a show at the NJPAC on Saturday night. We loved it. The restaurant offers a nice assortment of Brazilian and Portuguese cuisine, and a very friendly family run restaurant experience. The son of this family was our server, and I thought he was great. So handsome, professional, knowledgeable and friendly.
I chose the grilled octopus, which came in generous portion with two sides (I chose the delicious black beans that were flavored with pork and the tasty fried corn meal balls) … all for $11.95. The octopus was sautéed with nice seasonings. I prefer octopus that is actually charcoal or chargrilled to what seemed more like a sauteed version. The restaurant served the fried yucca topping for the beans that I so love, and some rice to accompany. My friend had the hanger steak, which I thought was exceptionally delicious.
All in all, a great experience here, and the staff was excellent.
My review rules are 4 stars for food, 5th star for service. Sabor Unido is 5th star worthy. We ended up here after facing an unexpected wait for our original destination. We were super hungry and pressed for time. Thank you to the lovely lady behind the counter for guiding us to the roasted chicken daily special and rushing our order out. Within minutes we had plates of moist chicken with crispy skin, tender potatoes, fluffy rice with beans on the side,and a huge salad. Everything was well seasoned, and presented with care and good humor. I can't wait to go back and next time, I'll head there first with plenty of time to linger and enjoy a delicious meal.
Amazing food! Our party of four was absolutely blown away by everything we had. What I ordered was relatively simple — steak with sauteed onion and french fries — but it was just what I needed that day. The flavors were amazing and the portions were very generous. The steak was thinly cut and quite cheap, which was fine by me — I'm not trying to eat filet mignon for a casual lunch.
I got a half-order, which was more than enough food. I'd be frightened to even look at what their regular-sized portions look like.
The restaurant is located just off of Ferry Street, the Ironbound's main commercial drag, and appeared to do a lot of take-out business. We had some time to kill before Sabor Unido opened and took a really pleasant stroll checking out all the shops in the neighborhood.
This place would run away with five stars if we didn't have such a long wait for our food. We got seated just after noon and our food didn't come until about 1:00. I'm normally more than willing to wait this long for such good food but we were trying to get to the airport that afternoon. Everything ended up ok but we definitely rushed our meal. I can't complain too much, though, because our waitress apologized profusely and genuinely felt bad about how long we waited. What more can you ask for in this type of situation?
I'll definitely be back next time I'm visiting my relatives in New Jersey.