The Top 100 Restaurants Near Kite Coffee
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Rank 1. Mountain and Sea House
Taiwanese
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Rank 2. Mudan
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 3. 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 4. 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 5. 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 6. de nuit
Contemporary French
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Rank 7. Din Tai Fung (Xinyi Road)
Shanghainese
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Rank 8. Antico Forno
Italian
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Rank 10. 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.
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Rank 12. Hang Zhou Xiao Long Bao (Da'an)
Shanghainese
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Rank 14. Hosu
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 15. ZEA
Taiwanese
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Rank 16. Talking Heads
Hunanese
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Rank 17. Rong Rong Yuan
Zhejiang
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Rank 18. Dasuke
Contemporary Japanese
Counter seating, dimmed lighting, and a sake list deep enough to require tasting notes set the tone at this intimate omakase spot in Da'an. The kitchen draws on Niigata flavors and locally sourced ingredients, and the menu lands somewhere between Japanese tradition and something harder to categorize, including a deep-fried patty of beef and sashimi served in a house bun, which is either an act of genius or a dare, possibly both.
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Rank 19. Tien Hsia San Chueh
Noodles
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Rank 20. Sansan Bistro
Neo Sichuan
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Rank 21. The Guest House
Sichuan
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Rank 22. Little Tree Food (Da'an Road)
Vegetarian
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Rank 23. Motoichi
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 24. Tableau by Craig Yang
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 25. Ching Jiao
Jiangzhe
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Rank 26. 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 27. Pàng
Taiwanese Mexican
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Rank 28. Ephernité
Contemporary French
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Rank 29. Le Palais
Cantonese
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Rank 30. 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 32. 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 33. Gi Yuan
Sichuan
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Rank 34. 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 36. Mizue
Japanese
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Rank 37. Komboi
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 38. EMBERS
Taiwanese
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Rank 39. L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon
Contemporary French
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Rank 40. Aleisha
Mediterranean
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Rank 41. Yu Kapo
Japanese
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Rank 42. Eika
Contemporary Japanese
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Rank 43. Impromptu by Paul Lee
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 45. Chuan Ya
Sichuan
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Rank 46. SÒNG JHAO
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 48. 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 49. Ya Ge
Cantonese
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Rank 52. SENS
Contemporary French
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Rank 54. 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 55. Tien Hsiang Lo
Zhejiang
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Rank 56. Serenity (Zhongzheng)
Vegetarian Sichuan
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Rank 57. KUR
Contemporary Japanese
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Rank 58. Xiang Se
European Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 59. Vanne Yakiniku
Japanese
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Rank 61. 3927
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 62. Mipon
Taiwanese
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Rank 63. aMaze
Creative Zhejiang
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Rank 64. Shin Yeh Taiwanese Signature
Taiwanese
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Rank 65. Lin
Contemporary French
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Rank 67. Yu Yu 1969
Taiwanese
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Rank 68. Ban Bo
contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 69. FRASSI
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 70. Tsui Feng Yuan
Cantonese
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Rank 71. Yuu
Japanese
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Rank 72. Unnamed Clay Oven Roll
Chinese
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Rank 73. The Dragon
Cantonese
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Rank 75. ÉCRU
Japanese-influenced French
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Rank 76. Wamaki
Japanese
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Rank 77. A-ba's Taro Ball
Taiwanese
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Rank 78. San Fen Su Chi
Jiangzhe
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Rank 79. Open Smile
Taiwanese
Braised pork is the whole argument here, slow-cooked until it hits that sweet spot between tender and giving, served over rice or noodles at a bright little Taiwanese spot that earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand. The menu wanders into scallion chicken and Sichuan peppercorn oil for variety, and a house chilli sauce is there when you want more heat. It's casual, cheerful, and the kind of lunch that makes the afternoon feel manageable.
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Rank 81. 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 82. GARDEN h
Hakka
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Rank 84. Yonghe Chia Hsiang Soy Milk
Taiwanese
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Rank 85. Jin Shang Hsuan
Taiwanese Chinese
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Rank 86. Sinchao Rice Shoppe
Taiwanese
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Rank 87. Halal Chinese Beef Noodles (Da'an)
Beef Noodles
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Rank 88. Yi Jia Zi
Tainan Chinese
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Rank 89. Su Lai Chuan
Taiwanese
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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. Yuan Fang Guabao
Taiwanese
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Rank 92. Tsai Chia Beef Noodles
Noodles
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Rank 93. Jen Ho Yuan
Yunnan Chinese
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Rank 94. Clavius
Vegetarian Taiwanese
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Rank 95. Soft Power
Taiwanese
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Rank 96. Huang Chi Lu Rou Fan
Taiwanese
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Rank 97. Hsiao Cho Chih Chia
Taiwanese
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Rank 98. Inn's+ (Shuangcheng Street)
Taiwanese
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Rank 99. Mai Mien Yen Tsai
Taiwanese
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Rank 100. Uosho
Japanese