Tuesday, September 1, 2026

The Top 100 Restaurants Near Lai Kang Shan

  1. 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.









  2. Rank 9. Mudan

    Tempura Japanese


  3. Rank 10. 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.


  4. Rank 11. de nuit

    Contemporary French


  5. Rank 12. 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.


  6. Rank 13. Kiku

    Japanese


  7. Rank 14. 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.


  8. Rank 15. Hosu

    Contemporary Taiwanese


  9. Rank 16. ZEA

    Taiwanese





  10. Rank 20. Le Palais

    Cantonese


  11. Rank 21. Motoichi

    Tempura Japanese


  12. Rank 22. 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.


  13. 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.



  14. Rank 25. 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.




  15. Rank 28. 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.



  16. Rank 30. Mizue

    Japanese




  17. Rank 33. SÒNG JHAO

    Taiwanese


  18. Rank 34. Yu Kapo

    Japanese





  19. Rank 38. Ya Ge

    Cantonese


  20. Rank 39. 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.


  21. Rank 40. Pàng

    Taiwanese Mexican




  22. Rank 43. Eika

    Contemporary Japanese








  23. Rank 50. SENS

    Contemporary French





  24. Rank 54. Sansan Bistro

    Neo Sichuan



  25. Rank 56. Ephernité

    Contemporary French


  26. Rank 57. 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.



  27. Rank 59. 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.










  28. Rank 68. Serenity (Zhongzheng)

    Vegetarian Sichuan





  29. Rank 72. Gi Yuan

    Sichuan


  30. Rank 73. EMBERS

    Taiwanese


  31. Rank 74. Yi Jia Zi

    Tainan Chinese


  32. Rank 75. KUR

    Contemporary Japanese


  33. Rank 76. Xiang Se

    European Contemporary Taiwanese


  34. Rank 77. Yu Yu 1969

    Taiwanese


  35. Rank 78. Lin

    Contemporary French


  36. 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.



  37. Rank 81. 85TD

    Modern Cantonese



  38. Rank 83. Komboi

    Modern Taiwanese


  39. Rank 84. Yuu

    Japanese




  40. Rank 87. 3927

    Modern Taiwanese


  41. Rank 88. Aleisha

    Mediterranean



  42. Rank 90. ÉCRU

    Japanese-influenced French


  43. Rank 91. PEI FULL

    Zhejiang


  44. Rank 92. Clover

    Contemporary French

    Jean-François Piège's first restaurant outside France sits inside a luxury department store, which sounds like a punchline until the food arrives. This contemporary French tasting room runs seasonal menus that pull hits from Piège's Paris restaurants and fold in local Taiwanese ingredients along the way. The wild raspberry soufflé with pistachio ice cream has its own reputation. Dress up; Bellavita is that kind of building.


  45. 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.


  46. Rank 94. Jin Shang Hsuan

    Taiwanese Chinese


  47. Rank 95. The Dragon

    Cantonese




  48. Rank 98. Wamaki

    Japanese


  49. Rank 99. JUNTO

    Cantonese


  50. Rank 100. Lao Hsu

    Taiwanese


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