The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Dian Xiao Er (Datong North Road)
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Rank 2. Eika
Contemporary Japanese
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Rank 3. Chin Ta Lu Rou Fan
Chinese
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Rank 4. Guang Xing Pork Knuckle
Chinese
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Rank 5. Mai Mien Yen Tsai
Taiwanese
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Rank 7. Le Palais
Cantonese
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Rank 8. HUGH dessert dining
Dessert
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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.
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Rank 10. 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 11. 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 12. Kou Gyu Rou
Taiwanese
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Rank 13. 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 14. Sushi Akira
Edomae Sushi
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Rank 16. Impromptu by Paul Lee
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 17. 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 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. The Guest House
Sichuan
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Rank 21. Tien Hsiang Lo
Zhejiang
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Rank 22. 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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Rank 23. 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 24. Sushi Kajin
Edomae Sushi
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Rank 25. Mizue
Japanese
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Rank 27. Mudan
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 28. Mountain and Sea House
Taiwanese
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Rank 30. 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 31. A Cut
Steakhouse
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Rank 32. SENS
Contemporary French
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Rank 33. Ya Ge
Cantonese
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Rank 36. 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 37. Yu Kapo
Japanese
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Rank 38. 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 39. 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 40. aMaze
Creative Zhejiang
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Rank 41. Mipon
Taiwanese
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Rank 42. Yi Jia Zi
Tainan Chinese
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Rank 44. Yuan Fang Guabao
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 46. Sushiyoshi
Edomae Sushi
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Rank 47. Motoichi
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 48. de nuit
Contemporary French
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Rank 49. Hosu
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 50. 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 51. Ken Anhe
Sushi
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 52. ZEA
Taiwanese
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Rank 53. Kiku
Japanese
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Rank 54. Chuan Mu Yuan
Cantonese
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Rank 55. Shin Yeh Taiwanese Signature
Taiwanese
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Rank 57. FRASSI
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 58. Ban Bo
contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 59. Jen Ho Yuan
Yunnan Chinese
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Rank 60. L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon
Contemporary French
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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 62. Inn's+ (Shuangcheng Street)
Taiwanese
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Rank 63. Golden Formosa
Taiwanese
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Rank 64. Huang Chi Lu Rou Fan
Taiwanese
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Rank 66. Su Lai Chuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 67. Chuan Ya
Sichuan
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Rank 69. 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 71. 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 72. Serenity (Zhongzheng)
Vegetarian Sichuan
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Rank 74. Hsiao Cho Chih Chia
Taiwanese
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Rank 76. JUNTO
Cantonese
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Rank 77. Ching Jiao
Jiangzhe
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Rank 78. Unnamed Clay Oven Roll
Chinese
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Rank 79. Soft Power
Taiwanese
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Rank 80. Hang Zhou Xiao Long Bao (Da'an)
Shanghainese
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Rank 81. Chung Chia Sheng Jian Bao
Shanghai
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Rank 83. Coffee Stand by me
Coffee
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Rank 84. Sasa
Sushi
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Rank 85. Din Tai Fung (Xinyi Road)
Shanghainese
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Rank 86. Yu Yu 1969
Taiwanese
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Rank 88. Shin Yeh Taiwanese Cuisine
Taiwanese
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Rank 89. Da One Gone Lamb
Chinese
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Rank 90. Jhen Pin
Taiwanese
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Rank 91. Tsuki Yo Iwa
Japanese
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Rank 92. Korner Café
Coffee
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Rank 93. Coffee Along
Coffee
The front wall opens entirely to the street, so Wenchang St. drifts in with every customer. This is an espresso-focused coffee shop run by someone with a background in blend development, and the menu stays short on purpose. You can stand at the counter for a quick shot or drift toward the open edges and stay longer. The kind of place that already feels like it's been here forever, even though it hasn't.
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Rank 94. Tutto Bello
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 95. Metro Cafe
Coffee
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Rank 96. Robin's Teppanyaki
Japanese
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Rank 97. Little Tree Food (Da'an Road)
Vegetarian
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Rank 98. Tien Hsia San Chueh
Noodles
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Rank 99. Tsui Feng Yuan
Cantonese
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Rank 100. Sushi Kaori
Sushi