The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Lao Tou Pai
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Rank 1. Lao Tou Pai
Hakkanese
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Rank 2. Bebu
Hakkanese
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Rank 4. Ko Chia Pen Se
Hakkanese
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Rank 5. Mud Brick House
Hakkanese
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Rank 6. Geng Ye Yue Mei
Hakkanese
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Rank 8. Hung Chin
Hakkanese
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Rank 9. Yi Ge Rice Vermicelli
Noodles
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Rank 10. Noon Turnip Cake
Hakkanese
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Rank 11. Sushi An
Sushi
Birchwood panels and a counter that seats just a handful of guests frame the omakase sushi experience here, where the chef works through Edomae technique with a creative edge. Fish comes mostly from Tokyo's Toyosu Market, with fresh catches from Taiwan's northeastern coast filling in the rest. The kohada, balanced between chew, acidity, and sweet rice, makes a quiet case for the Michelin star on its own.
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Rank 12. Cat House
Chinese Noodles
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Rank 13. Shan Guo Tang
Vegetarian Taiwanese
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Rank 14. Yi Hsuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 15. Shou Wu EAT
Hakkanese
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Rank 16. Monsoon
Hakkanese Vegetarian
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Rank 17. Yuan Wei Duck Noodle
Taiwanese
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Rank 18. Tang Tsao Yuan
Noodles
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Rank 19. He Jih Hsiang (Minzu Road)
Taiwanese
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Rank 21. Jiu Tian Fu
Taiwanese
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Rank 22. Garden.V
Zhejiang
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Rank 23. Nung Wei Hsiao Chu
Hakkanese
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Rank 24. Home Dishes
Cantonese
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Rank 27. Ang Gu
Noodles
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Rank 28. HOYA
Grilled Chinese
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Rank 29. Yeh Shu
Taiwanese
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Rank 30. SABI
Modern Japanese
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Rank 31. Happy Hwa
Chinese
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Rank 32. Piccola Enoteca
Italian
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Rank 33. No.10 Nanmen
Noodles
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Rank 34. Tang Ming
Taiwanese
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Rank 35. TAIVII
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 37. Yummy
Taiwanese
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Rank 38. Firoo
Wood-fired Taiwanese
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Rank 39. Lao Chen Chia
Chinese
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Rank 40. Shih Fang Hsiao Ching
Taiwanese
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Rank 41. Pho Xŭ
Vietnamese Noodles
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Rank 43. Mo Chien Tan
Taiwanese
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Rank 45. Jun
Japanese
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Rank 46. Kao Jai
Thai
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Rank 47. Chuan Fu
Wagyu Japanese
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Rank 50. Chang Chang Kitchen
Taiwanese
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Rank 51. Ho Chu Yuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 52. Ying Wang Meatball
Taiwanese
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Rank 53. Hai Kou Guabao
Taiwanese
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Rank 54. Wan Wan
Taiwanese
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Rank 55. Abba Hakka
Hakkanese
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Rank 56. 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 57. Niou Jia Juang
Hakkanese
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Rank 58. Na Ka Seafood
Seafood Taiwanese
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Rank 59. Shang Hao
Chinese
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Rank 60. Xun Kitchen
Taiwanese
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Rank 61. Shou Wu
Hakkanese
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Rank 62. JIA YEN
Zhejiang
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Rank 63. Da One Gone Lamb
Chinese
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Rank 64. Jhen Pin
Taiwanese
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Rank 65. 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 66. Le Palais
Cantonese
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Rank 67. Lao Hsu
Taiwanese
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Rank 69. 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 70. Eika
Contemporary Japanese
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Rank 71. 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 73. San Tung
Chinese
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Rank 74. Bitan Chiao Tou Goose
Chinese
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Rank 75. Bei Ya Duck Thick Soup
Chinese
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Rank 76. The Guest House
Sichuan
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Rank 77. Yonghe Chia Hsiang Soy Milk
Taiwanese
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Rank 78. GARDEN h
Hakka
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Rank 79. Mudan
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 80. Mountain and Sea House
Taiwanese
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Rank 81. 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 83. A-ba's Taro Ball
Taiwanese
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Rank 84. Tsai Chia Beef Noodles
Noodles
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Rank 85. Lai Kang Shan
Chinese
The lamb soup here comes five ways, each cut slow-cooked with Chinese angelica until the amber broth runs clean and faintly sweet. This is an old-school Chinese soup shop that's been around forever and recently moved into a brighter two-storey space. The braised pork sauce, simmered low from pork skin and fat, goes over both the rice and the noodles, making the choice between them harder than it should be. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand.
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Rank 86. 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 87. Impromptu by Paul Lee
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 90. Sushi Kajin
Edomae Sushi
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Rank 91. 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 92. 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 93. 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 94. de nuit
Contemporary French
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Rank 95. Mizue
Japanese
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Rank 96. SÒNG JHAO
Taiwanese
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Rank 97. Su Lai Chuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 98. 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 99. Kiku
Japanese
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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.