The Top 63 Restaurants Near Isagi
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A fine dining restaurant in Taichung where the chef grew up eating at his father's hawker stall in Singapore and never quite got over it. Three Michelin stars and a spot on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants, yet the animating idea is street food: childhood flavors pulled into a tasting menu format without being dismantled just to prove a point. The kaya toast dessert, served inside a frozen coconut shell, is the kind of thing that makes you stop mid-bite.
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Rank 2. Isagi
Japanese
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Rank 3. Le Plein
Taiwanese
Bare concrete and exposed brick share space with warm wood across two floors and a courtyard, which gives Le Plein the look of a loft that took a wrong turn into something more considered. It's a tasting-menu-only restaurant built around Taiwan's seasonal produce, with the number of courses shifting between lunch and dinner. The cold-brewed tea pairings are the quiet argument for skipping wine altogether.
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Rank 4. Ajisai
Zhejiang
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Rank 5. Fu Juang Yuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 6. Küisine (West)
Taiwanese
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Rank 7. Shin Yuan (West)
Taiwanese
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Rank 8. Night School Braised Pork Rice
Taiwanese
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Rank 9. Kung Fu Shanghai Fish Ball
Shanghainese
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Rank 10. huist
Taiwanese
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Rank 11. Moment in Beijing
Northern Chinese
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Rank 12. NIKU RYOURI FUKU
Creative Japanese
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Rank 13. Yuan
contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 14. UNA-VERSE
Dessert Taiwanese
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Rank 15. Fu Din Wang (Central)
Taiwanese
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Rank 16. Ming Juan Lou
Cantonese
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Rank 17. Sur-
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 18. Munchi
Modern Vietnamese
Counter seats facing an open kitchen give Munchi the feel of a wine cellar that accidentally got very good at food. This casual neo-bistro in Taichung reworks Vietnamese flavors through a contemporary lens, with a two-chef team and a sommelier steering the room toward natural wines and cocktails. The Munchi-style pho alongside a glass of something orange is the kind of pairing that makes you reconsider what a Vietnamese restaurant can be.
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Rank 19. Fu Kuei Ting
Noodles
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Rank 20. Don Moo
Noodles
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Rank 21. Torien Yakitori
Yakitori Japanese
A dinky Japanese garden leads into a yakitori counter where local chickens, prepped fresh each day, go over the grill with nothing but salt so each cut can argue for itself. The chef spent time honing the craft in Japan, and the set menu moves through cuts most people have never thought to order. Counter seats watch the kitchen the whole time, which is half the point. Call ahead if you want chicken sashimi or squab.
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Rank 23. No Name Noodles
Shanghainese
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Rank 24. Ke Kou Beef Noodles
Noodles
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Rank 25. FIRNS
Franco-Asian French
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Rank 26. SHINEYU
Cantonese
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Rank 27. House of Dawn
Artisan Noodles
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Rank 28. Ji Zai Ten
Vegan Noodles
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Rank 29. Chien Wei Seafood
Taiwanese
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Rank 30. Chin Chih Yuan (Central)
Taiwanese Chinese
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Rank 31. A Kun Mian
Taiwanese
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Rank 32. Shanghai Food (Nantun)
Chinese
Pan-fried buns are the whole point here, and the owner spent three years working from memory before he felt they were right. This small dim sum shop in Nantun turns out pork buns with a soupy, fatty-to-lean filling that got there the long way, plus veggie buns packed with bok choy, dried tofu, and mushroom. The steamed dumplings have a chewy, satisfying pull. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the kind of place that earns it quietly.
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Rank 33. Orient Dragon
Taiwanese
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Rank 34. Moon Pavilion
Taiwanese
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Rank 35. Taichung Meatball
Taiwanese
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Rank 36. L'Atelier par Yao
Modern French
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Rank 37. YUENJI
Taiwanese
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Rank 38. Lou's (Nantun)
Taiwanese
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Rank 39. Rong Cuisine
Taiwanese
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Rank 41. Li Xiao Lou
Taiwanese
A low-key Taiwanese home-cooking spot tucked down an alley, where a renovated old property has been fitted out with a Japanese-style wooden counter framing an open kitchen. The menu is short and the portions are small, the kind of place that quietly earns a Michelin Bib Gourmand without making a fuss about it. Stir-fried eel cooked in house-made goose fat is the dish regulars plan around: rich, bouncy, and sweet-sour enough to demand a bowl of rice alongside.
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Rank 42. Forchetta
Taiwanese
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Rank 43. Shoal Cuisine
Taiwanese
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Rank 44. Peng Cheng Tang
Taiwanese
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Rank 45. Fleur de Sel
Contemporary French
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Rank 46. enPure
Modern Taiwanese
A garden path leads you in before the food even starts, which sets the tone: this is a tasting menu restaurant in a minimalist room of brick red and grey, where a former interior designer runs the kitchen. The cooking is modern Taiwanese, built around local produce, and the rice cooked in a claypot with tea seed oil from a partner farm is the kind of dish that makes the sourcing worth mentioning. The tea pairing is an easy yes.
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Rank 47. Hibiki Seafood
Seafood Taiwanese
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Rank 48. Wen Tao
Taiwanese
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Rank 50. Hui Chung
Hong Kong Vegetarian
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Rank 51. Yùn: La Cuisine
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 52. Saka
Taiwanese
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Rank 53. Feng Chi Goose
Taiwanese
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Rank 54. Lao Shih Kuan Noodles
Noodles
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Rank 55. Inflorescence
Japanese
Perched on a mountainside nearly 500 meters up, this Zen-inspired Japanese restaurant frames lush hills by day and city lights by night through its immaculate gardens. Inside, a 10-course omakase built on kaiseki traditions unfolds with tea rituals woven between dishes, and the team narrates each course with enough context that it feels like a seminar you didn't want to skip. The kind of meal that earns its altitude.
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Rank 56. Niou Jia Juang
Hakkanese
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Rank 57. Master of Mushroom (Xinshe)
Taiwanese
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Rank 58. Bebu
Hakkanese
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Rank 60. Geng Ye Yue Mei
Hakkanese
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Rank 61. Lao Tou Pai
Hakkanese
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Rank 62. Ko Chia Pen Se
Hakkanese
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Rank 63. Mud Brick House
Hakkanese