The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Coffee Lab
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Rank 1. NOBUO
Japanese
A Japanese façade gives way to a Scandinavian-spare interior where the room itself signals what's coming: nothing extraneous. This two-Michelin-star tasting counter builds a single menu around seafood and seasonal local vegetables, with modern technique used to pull flavors forward rather than show off. The team walks you through each dish, which sounds fussy until it genuinely helps. Clean, quiet, and layered in ways that take a moment to catch up with you.
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Rank 2. Le Palais
Cantonese
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Rank 3. Mountain and Sea House
Taiwanese
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Rank 4. Silks House
Taipei
Cantonese fine dining on the third floor of the Regent Taipei, with a Michelin star and a spot on Asia's 50 Best list. The chef came up through Hong Kong's Lei Garden and built a career across the region, arriving here with a deep command of the classical repertoire. Roasted meats, double-boiled soups, wok-fried dishes, and dim sum all get the full treatment, with Taiwan's own produce quietly threaded through.
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Rank 5. The Guest House
Sichuan
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Rank 6. Molino de Urdániz
Contemporary Spanish
A stone wall and a wine cellar anchor the room at this two-Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant inside Hotel MVSA, where a Spanish kitchen transplanted to Taipei works through seafood with modern technique and a painter's sense of color. The cooking takes its cues from Spanish landscapes, and the plating looks like it. Dress well and clear your evening.
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Rank 7. Sushi Kajin
Edomae Sushi
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Rank 8. A
Contemporary French
White walls, flower arrangements, and tasting menus that read like gallery notes: this two-Michelin-starred contemporary French restaurant inside a Taipei department store commits fully to the art-world vibe. The chef builds on classic French sauces with quiet Asian inflections, and the plating is the kind that makes people reach for their phones before their forks. A mushroom cappuccino course has its own name, which tells you something about the level of seriousness on offer.
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Rank 9. Ching Jiao
Jiangzhe
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Rank 10. Wok by O'BOND
Modern French Taiwanese
A small window at the entrance lets you watch the wok station before you're inside, surrounded by dark green velvet and red walls. This Michelin-starred modern French Taiwanese tasting menu restaurant takes Taiwanese and Asian flavors apart and rebuilds them with French technique, with at least one dish carrying proper wok hei. Taiwanese teas and herb-infused cocktails round out a menu that changes every season.
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Rank 11. Impromptu by Paul Lee
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 13. Sushi Ryu
Sushi
Solid wood countertops imported from Canada anchor a room that reads as quietly, deliberately Japanese. This is an omakase-only sushi counter, the kind where the chef controls the entire arc of the meal. Fish comes in from Japan three times a week, and the rice is seasoned with three different vinegars, which sounds fussy until you taste it. The place holds a Michelin star.
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Rank 14. Coffee Lab
Coffee
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Rank 15. Spot Café Lumière
Coffee
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Rank 16. A Cut
Steakhouse
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Rank 18. Serenity (Zhongzheng)
Vegetarian Sichuan
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Rank 19. Mudan
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 20. Din Tai Fung (Xinyi Road)
Shanghainese
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Rank 21. Hang Zhou Xiao Long Bao (Da'an)
Shanghainese
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Rank 22. KiOSK
Coffee
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Rank 23. Wamaki
Japanese
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Rank 25. Mume
Contemporary Taiwanese
Fresh herbs and edible flowers land on every plate at this Michelin-starred contemporary European restaurant, which makes the moody, faux-industrial dining room feel like a pleasant joke the kitchen is playing on itself. Seasonal Taiwanese ingredients fold into European technique, and the seafood in particular shows a confident hand with seasoning. Da'an regulars who have stopped reading the menu are probably onto something.
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Rank 26. Ming Fu
Taiwanese
Home-style Taiwanese cooking served in the kind of generous portions that assume you brought people. Ming Fu holds a Michelin star, which surprises no one who has had the stuffed chicken, a whole free-range bird filled with glutinous rice, red dates, and goji berries, then simmered for the better part of a day into a golden, deeply umami broth. The menu also reaches for ingredients like mullet tripe and fresh fish maw that most restaurants don't bother with.
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Rank 27. The Dragon
Cantonese
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Rank 28. Yu Yu 1969
Taiwanese
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Rank 29. Fika Fika Cafe
Coffee
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Rank 30. Tien Hsiang Lo
Zhejiang
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Rank 31. Uosho
Japanese
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Rank 32. Kitcho
Sushi
A sushi counter in Da'an where the chef has been at this for over three decades, and it shows in the quiet precision of the work. Raw and cooked dishes shift with the season, sake included, so the list you see tonight probably won't exist next month. A Michelin star sits on the wall. The room rewards people who let the chef lead rather than those who arrive with a checklist.
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Rank 33. INITA
Contemporary Italian
A one-Michelin-star tasting menu tucked into a Songshan alley, where the name bundles Italy, Japan, and Taiwan into a single word and the kitchen delivers on all three. Expect ten-plus courses built on Italian technique, Japanese sensibility, and local ingredients, with the chef rolling pasta dough tableside before the final savory course. It's a serious, quiet room where the food does the talking.
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Rank 34. Brisé
Contemporary French
An open kitchen in a sleek modern room, where contemporary French cooking quietly folds Asian ingredients into the kind of seasonal menu that changes every few months and makes last season feel like a different restaurant. The chef's touch is restrained on the plate but precise underneath, and the weekday lunch set is a sensible way in. Tucked down a lane in Zhongshan, it's a Michelin Guide selection that rewards a little effort to find.
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Rank 35. Mizue
Japanese
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Rank 36. Eika
Contemporary Japanese
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Rank 37. Little Tree Food (Da'an Road)
Vegetarian
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Rank 38. Aleisha
Mediterranean
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Rank 39. fumée
Yakitori Japanese
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Rank 40. Hijo
Seafood
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Rank 43. Robin's Teppanyaki
Japanese
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Rank 44. Tien Hsia San Chueh
Noodles
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Rank 45. JUNTO
Cantonese
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Rank 46. Sasa
Sushi
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Rank 47. Ya Ge
Cantonese
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Rank 48. Coffee Sweet
Coffee
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Rank 49. de nuit
Contemporary French
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Rank 50. A Cheng Goose (Zhongshan)
Taiwanese
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Rank 51. 16.67 Cafe
Coffee
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Rank 52. Really Good Seafood
Seafood
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Rank 53. Korner Café
Coffee
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Rank 54. Sushiyoshi
Edomae Sushi
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Rank 55. Motoichi
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 56. SENS
Contemporary French
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Rank 58. Hosu
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 59. Sushi Akira
Edomae Sushi
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A Michelin-starred omakase counter in Da'an where the soup course alone justifies showing up, a minced fish dumpling bobbing in kelp bonito stock that manages to feel both precise and generous. Lunch leans toward raw fish and nigiri; dinner shifts into cooked kappo territory. The chef is the chatty kind, which at an omakase counter either charms or unnerves, and here it lands on the right side.
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Rank 61. Kiku
Japanese
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Rank 62. Coffee Stand by me
Coffee
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Rank 63. Metro Cafe
Coffee
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Rank 64. ZEA
Taiwanese
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Rank 65. Jen Ho Yuan
Yunnan Chinese
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Rank 66. Xiang Se
European Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 68. Taïrroir
Contemporary Taiwanese
A copper-ceiling meant to suggest Taiwan's hill country sets the tone before you've seen the menu, which at Taïrroir names its dishes to rhyme with local idioms. The chef spent two decades across Taiwanese and French kitchens, and the tasting menu puts those two traditions in genuine conversation, built around seasonal Taiwanese produce. It holds three Michelin stars, and the service matches that without feeling starched.
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A roasting room visible from the counter sets the tone at this Taipei specialty coffee shop, where the in-house slow drip takes a full day to prepare tomorrow's batch. Dark wood and a calm atmosphere keep the focus on what's in the cup, not the interior. The menu runs espresso, pour-over, and cold drip, with a side-by-side espresso set for anyone who wants to think a little harder about what they're drinking.
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Rank 70. Talking Heads
Hunanese
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Rank 71. Komboi
Modern Taiwanese
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Tucked into a Neihu alleyway, this two-Michelin-star contemporary Asian restaurant draws a straight line between Taipei and Tokyo: chef Ryogo Tahara trained under Hiroyasu Kawate at Florilège before bringing that same exacting sensibility here. The menu leans into Taiwanese ingredients while pulling techniques from across the continent, landing at No. 22 on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants. Dishes arrive with the quiet confidence of people who have nothing left to prove.
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Rank 73. Yu Kapo
Japanese
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Rank 74. Coffee Dumbo
Coffee
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Rank 75. Tsui Feng Yuan
Cantonese
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Rank 76. L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon
Contemporary French
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Rank 77. Rong Rong Yuan
Zhejiang
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Rank 78. the Folks
Coffee
A Kees van der Westen Slim Jim sits at the center of this six-seat counter cafe in Da'an, and everything else organizes itself around that machine. The Folks has been a one-man operation forever, roasting its own beans on-site with a lean toward Guatemalan lots. The pace is unhurried, the bar seating feels closer to a chef's counter than a coffee shop, and a takeaway cup costs a little less if you're in a hurry.
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Rank 79. 3927
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 84. Cheng Jia
Taiwanese
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Rank 85. Sushi Kaori
Sushi
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Rank 87. Normal Coffee
Coffee
A stripped-back specialty coffee shop that roasts on-site and keeps the menu tight, Normal Coffee is where you go when the coffee itself is the point. The sourcing is the story: alongside the usual origins, they carry beans from the Alishan Mountain Range, Taiwan-grown and genuinely hard to find in the city. Espresso and pour-overs, a smaller footprint, no lifestyle clutter. It's the quieter, more focused sibling in a growing Taipei coffee group.
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Rank 88. Huang Chi Lu Rou Fan
Taiwanese
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Rank 89. Chuan Mu Yuan
Cantonese
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Rank 90. Chuan Ya
Sichuan
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Rank 91. Tableau by Craig Yang
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 93. Vanne Yakiniku
Japanese
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Rank 94. noon
Coffee
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Rank 95. Mipon
Taiwanese
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Rank 96. aMaze
Creative Zhejiang
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Rank 97. looproom
Coffee
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Rank 98. Antico Forno
Italian
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Rank 100. Shin Yeh Taiwanese Signature
Taiwanese