The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Hang Zhou Xiao Long Bao (Da'an)
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Rank 1. Hang Zhou Xiao Long Bao (Da'an)
Shanghainese
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Rank 2. 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 3. Mountain and Sea House
Taiwanese
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Rank 4. The Guest House
Sichuan
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Rank 5. Le Palais
Cantonese
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Rank 7. Din Tai Fung (Xinyi Road)
Shanghainese
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Rank 8. Ching Jiao
Jiangzhe
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Rank 9. 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 10. 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. Serenity (Zhongzheng)
Vegetarian Sichuan
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Rank 13. Sushi Kajin
Edomae Sushi
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Rank 14. 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 15. Xiang Se
European Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 16. Mudan
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 17. Impromptu by Paul Lee
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 19. 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 20. The Dragon
Cantonese
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Rank 23. Unnamed Clay Oven Roll
Chinese
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Rank 24. 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 25. Spot Café Lumière
Coffee
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Rank 26. Korner Café
Coffee
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Rank 27. JUNTO
Cantonese
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Rank 28. 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 29. 16.67 Cafe
Coffee
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Rank 30. Metro Cafe
Coffee
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Rank 31. Kite Coffee
Coffee
The walls at this coffee shop in Da'an are lined with art and design magazines, album covers, and posters that feel like someone's actual collection rather than set dressing. The menu splits cleanly between espresso drinks and pour-overs, and the whole operation has that same unhurried quality. There's a small interior and a semi-enclosed porch out front. You can stop in for a quick one, but weekday mornings have a way of stretching.
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Rank 32. Eika
Contemporary Japanese
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Rank 33. KiOSK
Coffee
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Rank 34. de nuit
Contemporary French
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Rank 35. Wamaki
Japanese
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Rank 36. Uosho
Japanese
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Rank 38. Coffee Lab
Coffee
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Rank 40. Antico Forno
Italian
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Rank 41. A Cut
Steakhouse
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Rank 42. Mizue
Japanese
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Rank 43. 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 44. 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 45. Coffee Sweet
Coffee
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Rank 46. Kiku
Japanese
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Rank 47. 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 48. Hosu
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 49. 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 50. 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 51. ZEA
Taiwanese
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Rank 52. Motoichi
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 53. Sushiyoshi
Edomae Sushi
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Rank 54. Little Tree Food (Da'an Road)
Vegetarian
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Rank 55. Aleisha
Mediterranean
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Rank 56. Tien Hsiang Lo
Zhejiang
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Rank 57. L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon
Contemporary French
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Rank 58. Tien Hsia San Chueh
Noodles
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Rank 59. Yu Kapo
Japanese
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Rank 60. 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 61. Yi Jia Zi
Tainan Chinese
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Rank 62. Ya Ge
Cantonese
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Rank 63. noon
Coffee
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Rank 65. Sushi Akira
Edomae Sushi
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Rank 67. SENS
Contemporary French
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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 72. Really Good Seafood
Seafood
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Rank 73. Chuan Ya
Sichuan
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Rank 74. Fika Fika Cafe
Coffee
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Rank 75. SÒNG JHAO
Taiwanese
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Rank 76. Rong Rong Yuan
Zhejiang
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Rank 77. 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 78. Nameless Coffee
Coffee
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Rank 79. Talking Heads
Hunanese
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Rank 80. Yu Yu 1969
Taiwanese
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Rank 82. 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 83. fumée
Yakitori Japanese
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Rank 84. Mipon
Taiwanese
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Rank 85. aMaze
Creative Zhejiang
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Rank 86. Robin's Teppanyaki
Japanese
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Rank 88. Shin Yeh Taiwanese Signature
Taiwanese
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Rank 89. Hijo
Seafood
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Rank 90. 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 91. Sasa
Sushi
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Rank 92. Yuan Fang Guabao
Taiwanese
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Rank 93. Ban Bo
contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 94. Su Lai Chuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 95. FRASSI
Contemporary Italian
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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 98. Tableau by Craig Yang
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 99. RUFOUS COFFEE
Coffee
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Rank 100. Komboi
Modern Taiwanese