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Where to eat in Union City, NJ
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A few places to eat in Union City
- Double Dragon Restaurant Chinese · 0.2 miles
1853 Morris Ave, Union - BBQ Patio's Portuguese · 0.2 miles
1899 Morris Ave, Union - Tacos Mexican Grill 2 Mexican · 0.2 miles
1255 Stuyvesant Ave, Union - Magic Fountain Union Creamery Homemade Ice Cream Ice Cream Shop · 0.2 miles
1081 Stuyvesant Ave., Union - Prestige Bagel & Deli Bagel Shop · 0.2 miles
1200 Stuyvesant Ave., Union
The closest few by distance from central Union City, not a ranking — local places listed ahead of chains. Listings from Overture Maps open data (September 2026); hours and openings change, so check before you go. Want one picked for what you're craving instead? Ask Savor Scout in Union City.
The food scene in Union City
Open listings put 341 places to eat within 2 miles of central Union City, 65 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: pizza (25), bakery (22) and Italian (18). 25 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Union City is Brazilian, Caribbean and soul food — types that are listed here at 7 to 11 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Pizza 25 Bakery 22 Italian 18 Chinese 18 Deli 15 Sandwiches 13 Mexican 12 Donuts 9 Caribbean 9 Chicken 8
The food in Union City
Union City does not have infinite options, and that brings its own problem: you have been to most of them, and picking again is somehow still hard.
Savor Scout picks one restaurant in Union City and tells you why it picked it. Say what you're craving and it reads menus and reviews for that specific dish, rather than sorting places by overall star rating. Free, runs in the browser, and one search needs no account.
Eating out in Union City
Union City has a population of about 68,247. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Union City, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
How many places to eat are there in Union City?
Union City sits in Union County, where the Census counts 497 full-service restaurants, 452 limited-service places, 155 cafés and snack bars and 49 bars — 1,153 places to eat or drink in all. Union City makes up about 12% of the county's population.
That works out at 20.2 per 10,000 residents, which is about level with the national median of 19.4 — a normal amount of choice, and a normal amount of indecision. Sit-down and counter-service places are close to balanced, with the edge to sit-down.
Those county figures also cover Elizabeth, Plainfield, Linden, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Union City.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Union City
- Elizabeth, NJ — about 4 miles away
- Linden, NJ — about 5 miles away
- Newark, NJ — about 5 miles away
- East Orange, NJ — about 6 miles away
- Kearny, NJ — about 8 miles away
- Bayonne, NJ — about 8 miles away
Campuses in and near Union City
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- Kean University
- Seton Hall University
- UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey
- Essex County College
- Rutgers University-Newark
- New Jersey Institute of Technology
- College of Staten Island CUNY
- New Jersey City University
How this differs from Google Maps and Yelp
Maps and Yelp are directories: they rank everything nearby and leave the deciding to you. Savor Scout makes the call and shows its reasoning — the match score, what it beat, and the evidence behind the pick. The underlying place data comes from the same public sources, so the difference is the selection, not the data.
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