The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Da One Gone Lamb
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Rank 1. Da One Gone Lamb
Chinese
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Rank 4. JIA YEN
Zhejiang
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Rank 5. Hai Shan
Taiwanese
Queues form early and don't thin out much at this Banqiao spot, a no-frills Taiwanese small-eats counter with nostalgic decor that reads less "curated" and more "has always looked this way." Braised pork rice and a clear spareribs-and-wax-gourd soup are the draws, the kind of quietly satisfying classics regulars order without glancing at the menu. Set menus let you mix and match sides, which keeps things moving at a pace the line outside will appreciate.
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Rank 6. Shou Wu
Hakkanese
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Rank 7. Le Palais
Cantonese
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Rank 8. 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.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
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Rank 9. Eika
Contemporary Japanese
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Rank 10. Shang Hao
Chinese
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Rank 11. 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 12. Circum-
Chinese
The name comes from the Latin for "around," a nod to how Chinese food travels and changes as it crosses borders. This fine dining room in the Regent Hotel follows that migration, tracing emigrant foodways through history and reassembling them with French technique. The dishes land somewhere between a childhood memory and a chef's thesis, which sounds more cerebral than it eats. It holds a Michelin star.
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Rank 13. The Guest House
Sichuan
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Rank 14. Jhen Pin
Taiwanese
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Rank 15. Impromptu by Paul Lee
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 17. Mountain and Sea House
Taiwanese
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Rank 18. 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 19. 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 20. Sushi Kajin
Edomae Sushi
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Rank 21. 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 22. 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 23. Sushi Akira
Edomae Sushi
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Rank 24. Mudan
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 25. Tien Hsiang Lo
Zhejiang
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Rank 26. 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 27. Su Lai Chuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 28. Wang's Broth
Chinese
The scent of braised pork hits you before you find the stall number. What started as a night market cart has been around forever and grown into a proper sit-down spot in Huaxi Street, bright and clean inside. The draw is braised pork rice, the sauce glossy and dark, sweet-savory and sticky in the best sense. Stewed cabbage cuts through it neatly. The Michelin Bib Gourmand crowd knows what they're doing ordering nothing else.
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Rank 29. Yuan Fang Guabao
Taiwanese
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Rank 30. A Cut
Steakhouse
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Rank 31. 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 32. Yi Jia Zi
Tainan Chinese
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Rank 34. Unnamed Clay Oven Roll
Chinese
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Rank 35. Mizue
Japanese
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Rank 37. de nuit
Contemporary French
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Rank 38. A-ba's Taro Ball
Taiwanese
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Rank 40. SÒNG JHAO
Taiwanese
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Rank 41. 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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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 43. Kiku
Japanese
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Rank 44. 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 45. Hosu
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 46. Hang Zhou Xiao Long Bao (Da'an)
Shanghainese
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Rank 47. ZEA
Taiwanese
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Rank 48. Ya Ge
Cantonese
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Rank 49. GARDEN h
Hakka
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Rank 50. Mai Mien Yen Tsai
Taiwanese
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Rank 51. Motoichi
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 52. Sushiyoshi
Edomae Sushi
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Rank 54. Serenity (Zhongzheng)
Vegetarian Sichuan
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Rank 55. SENS
Contemporary French
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Rank 56. Yonghe Chia Hsiang Soy Milk
Taiwanese
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Rank 57. 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.
- Sprudge The Sprudge Guide To Coffee In Taipei, Taiwan
- Asian Coffee Map Your Guide to Coffee in Taipei
- Asian Coffee Map Where to Drink Coffee in Taipei
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Rank 58. Guang Xing Pork Knuckle
Chinese
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Rank 61. Ching Jiao
Jiangzhe
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Rank 63. HUGH dessert dining
Dessert
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Rank 64. Din Tai Fung (Xinyi Road)
Shanghainese
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Rank 67. Jen Ho Yuan
Yunnan Chinese
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Rank 68. Tsai Chia Beef Noodles
Noodles
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Rank 70. Xiang Se
European Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 71. Huang Chi Lu Rou Fan
Taiwanese
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Rank 72. Gino Pizza
Neapolitan Pizza
A Neapolitan-style gas oven sits on full display as you walk in, which sets expectations immediately at this casual pizza shop in Xinzhuang. The room is high-ceilinged and easygoing, with a small blue room tucked toward the back for when you want to pretend you're somewhere quieter. The menu covers white and red pizzas, Italian-style pastas, and desserts, with a short Italian beer list to wash it down. It ranked 45th on 50 Top Pizza Asia-Pacific.
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Rank 73. Chin Ta Lu Rou Fan
Chinese
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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.
- Sprudge The Sprudge Guide To Coffee In Taipei, Taiwan
- Asian Coffee Map Essential Coffee Shops in Taipei
- Asian Coffee Map Best coffee shops for work in Taipei
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Rank 75. Inn's+ (Shuangcheng Street)
Taiwanese
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Rank 76. JUNTO
Cantonese
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Rank 77. San Fen Su Chi
Jiangzhe
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Rank 78. Kou Gyu Rou
Taiwanese
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A specialty coffee shop on Dihua Street, one of Taipei's oldest commercial strips, where the narrow shophouse format and the smell of roasting beans compete for your attention. The team roasts in-house and pours to order, which means you'll wait a little and won't mind. Relaxed enough that regulars spread out with laptops and books and nobody rushes them along.
- Asian Coffee Map Where to Drink Coffee in Taipei
- Asian Coffee Map Taipei Coffee Map for First-Time Visitors
- Asian Coffee Map Taipei Coffee Guide for Travelers
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Rank 80. Korner Café
Coffee
- Asian Coffee Map 10 Best Specialty Cafes & Coffee Shops in Taipei
- Asian Coffee Map Taipei Coffee Guide for Travelers
- Asian Coffee Map Best coffee shops for work in Taipei
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Rank 81. The Dragon
Cantonese
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Rank 83. 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.
- Sprudge The Sprudge Guide To Coffee In Taipei, Taiwan
- Asian Coffee Map Where to Drink Coffee in Taipei
- Asian Coffee Map 10 Best Specialty Cafes & Coffee Shops in Taipei
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Rank 84. Yu Kapo
Japanese
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Rank 85. Metro Cafe
Coffee
- Asian Coffee Map Taipei Coffee Guide for Travelers
- Asian Coffee Map Best coffee shops for work in Taipei
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Rank 86. Hsiao Cho Chih Chia
Taiwanese
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Rank 87. L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon
Contemporary French
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Rank 88. Shih Chia Big Rice Ball
Hakkanese
Miaoli Hakkanese-style glutinous rice balls are the whole point here, stuffed with pork and vegetables and made from year-old round-grain sticky rice for that particular chewy pull. It's a casual counter spot that's been around forever, with a second-generation owner still running the same recipe his mother built the place on. The scallion oil chicken drumsticks have their own following. Check social media before you go, because the hours are their own puzzle.
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Rank 89. Chuan Mu Yuan
Cantonese
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Rank 90. Uosho
Japanese
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Rank 91. 16.67 Cafe
Coffee
- Asian Coffee Map Essential Coffee Shops in Taipei
- Asian Coffee Map Taipei Coffee Map for First-Time Visitors
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Rank 93. Sasa
Sushi
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Rank 94. Little Tree Food (Da'an Road)
Vegetarian
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Rank 95. Yu Yu 1969
Taiwanese
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Rank 96. Tien Hsia San Chueh
Noodles
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Rank 97. Robin's Teppanyaki
Japanese
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Rank 98. fumée
Yakitori Japanese
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Rank 99. Chuan Ya
Sichuan
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Rank 100. Soft Power
Taiwanese