The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Jhen Pin
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Rank 1. Jhen Pin
Taiwanese
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Rank 2. 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 3. Le Palais
Cantonese
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Rank 4. Eika
Contemporary Japanese
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Rank 5. 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
- 50 Best #64 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
- Chinese Restaurant Awards #15 · Elite 15 Asia
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Rank 6. 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 7. Da One Gone Lamb
Chinese
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Rank 8. 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 9. The Guest House
Sichuan
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Rank 11. Impromptu by Paul Lee
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 12. 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 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. Sushi Akira
Edomae Sushi
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Rank 15. Sushi Kajin
Edomae Sushi
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Rank 16. Mountain and Sea House
Taiwanese
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Rank 17. 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 18. Tien Hsiang Lo
Zhejiang
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Rank 20. Shang Hao
Chinese
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Rank 21. Su Lai Chuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 22. 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 23. Yuan Fang Guabao
Taiwanese
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Rank 26. Yi Jia Zi
Tainan Chinese
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Rank 28. Guang Xing Pork Knuckle
Chinese
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Rank 29. 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 31. Unnamed Clay Oven Roll
Chinese
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Rank 32. Mai Mien Yen Tsai
Taiwanese
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Rank 33. 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 34. JIA YEN
Zhejiang
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Rank 36. Shou Wu
Hakkanese
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Rank 37. 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 38. HUGH dessert dining
Dessert
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Rank 39. Mudan
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 40. A Cut
Steakhouse
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Rank 41. Chin Ta Lu Rou Fan
Chinese
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Rank 42. Serenity (Zhongzheng)
Vegetarian Sichuan
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Rank 44. A-ba's Taro Ball
Taiwanese
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Rank 45. Mizue
Japanese
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Rank 46. Hang Zhou Xiao Long Bao (Da'an)
Shanghainese
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Rank 47. SÒNG JHAO
Taiwanese
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Rank 48. Jen Ho Yuan
Yunnan Chinese
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Rank 49. Ching Jiao
Jiangzhe
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Rank 51. 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 52. Huang Chi Lu Rou Fan
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 Taipei Coffee Guide for Travelers
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Rank 54. Inn's+ (Shuangcheng Street)
Taiwanese
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Rank 55. Kou Gyu Rou
Taiwanese
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Rank 56. SENS
Contemporary French
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Rank 57. Ya Ge
Cantonese
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Rank 58. JUNTO
Cantonese
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Rank 59. 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 60. Xiang Se
European Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 61. 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 63. 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 64. Korner Café
Coffee
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Rank 65. de nuit
Contemporary French
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Rank 67. Din Tai Fung (Xinyi Road)
Shanghainese
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Rank 68. Chuan Mu Yuan
Cantonese
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Rank 70. GARDEN h
Hakka
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Rank 71. Metro Cafe
Coffee
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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 73. The Dragon
Cantonese
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Rank 74. Hsiao Cho Chih Chia
Taiwanese
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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 76. Kiku
Japanese
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Rank 77. 16.67 Cafe
Coffee
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Rank 78. Hosu
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 79. Yonghe Chia Hsiang Soy Milk
Taiwanese
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Rank 80. Sushiyoshi
Edomae Sushi
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Rank 81. Motoichi
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 83. Sasa
Sushi
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Rank 84. ZEA
Taiwanese
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Rank 85. Uosho
Japanese
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Rank 86. Robin's Teppanyaki
Japanese
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Rank 90. fumée
Yakitori Japanese
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Rank 91. 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 92. Coffee Stand by me
Coffee
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Rank 93. Xun Kitchen
Taiwanese
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Rank 94. Shin Yeh Taiwanese Cuisine
Taiwanese
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Rank 95. Soft Power
Taiwanese
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Rank 96. Sushi Kaori
Sushi
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Rank 97. San Fen Su Chi
Jiangzhe
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Rank 98. Tsuki Yo Iwa
Japanese
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Rank 99. Tutto Bello
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 100. 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.