The Top 100 Restaurants Near Happy Garden
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Rank 1. Happy Garden
Taiwanese
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Rank 2. Dark Palace Taiwanese Gourmet
Taiwanese
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Rank 3. Xun Kitchen
Taiwanese
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Rank 4. Woogu House
Creative Taiwanese
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Rank 5. Na Ka Seafood
Seafood Taiwanese
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Rank 6. Jhen Pin
Taiwanese
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Rank 7. Guang Xing Pork Knuckle
Chinese
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Rank 8. Eika
Contemporary Japanese
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Rank 9. Le Palais
Cantonese
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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.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- 50 Best #64 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
- Chinese Restaurant Awards #15 · Elite 15 Asia
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Rank 11. Golden Formosa
Taiwanese
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Rank 13. 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 14. 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 15. Restaurant 12
French-inflected Spanish
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Rank 16. Chinese Cuisine
Taiwanese
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Rank 17. Chin Ta Lu Rou Fan
Chinese
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Rank 19. Tien Hsiang Lo
Zhejiang
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Rank 20. Impromptu by Paul Lee
Modern 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 22. Chun Yu Garden
Creative Chinese
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Rank 23. 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 24. 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 25. The Guest House
Sichuan
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Rank 26. Mizue
Japanese
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Rank 27. 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 28. Zhulin Chicken (Yonghe)
Taiwanese
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Rank 29. aMaze
Creative Zhejiang
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Rank 30. Mudan
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 32. Mipon
Taiwanese
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Rank 33. 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 34. Yu Kapo
Japanese
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Rank 36. Mountain and Sea House
Taiwanese
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Rank 37. SENS
Contemporary French
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Rank 38. 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 39. FRASSI
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 40. Shin Yeh Taiwanese Signature
Taiwanese
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Rank 41. L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon
Contemporary French
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Rank 42. Mai Mien Yen Tsai
Taiwanese
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Rank 43. Ban Bo
contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 44. Ya Ge
Cantonese
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Rank 46. Chung Chia Sheng Jian Bao
Shanghai
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Rank 48. Da One Gone Lamb
Chinese
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Rank 50. 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 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. Motoichi
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 53. de nuit
Contemporary French
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Rank 54. Hosu
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 55. ZEA
Taiwanese
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Rank 56. Kiku
Japanese
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Rank 57. Chuan Ya
Sichuan
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Rank 58. Yuan Fang Guabao
Taiwanese
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Rank 59. 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 60. Yi Jia Zi
Tainan Chinese
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Rank 61. Inn's+ (Shuangcheng Street)
Taiwanese
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Rank 64. 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 65. Su Lai Chuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 66. Huang Chi Lu Rou Fan
Taiwanese
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Rank 67. Jen Ho Yuan
Yunnan Chinese
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Rank 71. Hsiao Cho Chih Chia
Taiwanese
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Rank 74. Kou Gyu Rou
Taiwanese
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Rank 75. Soft Power
Taiwanese
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Rank 76. Serenity (Zhongzheng)
Vegetarian Sichuan
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Rank 79. Unnamed Clay Oven Roll
Chinese
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Rank 81. Chuan Mu Yuan
Cantonese
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Rank 83. Shang Hao
Chinese
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Rank 84. Shin Yeh Taiwanese Cuisine
Taiwanese
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Rank 85. Tsuki Yo Iwa
Japanese
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Rank 86. Ching Jiao
Jiangzhe
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Rank 87. Tutto Bello
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 88. Hang Zhou Xiao Long Bao (Da'an)
Shanghainese
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Rank 89. CEO 1950
Contemporary French
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Rank 90. JIA YEN
Zhejiang
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Rank 91. Yu Yu 1969
Taiwanese
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Rank 92. Sung Chu Yuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 93. Din Tai Fung (Xinyi Road)
Shanghainese
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Rank 94. Shou Wu
Hakkanese
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Rank 95. Xiao Ping Kitchen (Zhongshan)
Taiwanese
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Rank 96. JUNTO
Cantonese
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Rank 97. Clavius
Vegetarian Taiwanese
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Rank 99. Jin Shang Hsuan
Taiwanese Chinese
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Rank 100. Paris 1930 de Hideki Takayama
Contemporary French
A Japanese chef running a contemporary French kitchen on the second floor of a Taipei hotel sounds like a setup, but the seasonally shifting millefeuille and seafood-forward menus built around local teas and spices make a quiet case for the combination. The room is understated to the point of calm, and both wine and tea sommeliers are on hand, which does rather raise the bar for your next dinner party.