Tuesday, September 1, 2026

The Top 100 Restaurants Near Lao Tou Pai


  1. Rank 2. Bebu

    Hakkanese







  2. Rank 8. Hung Chin

    Hakkanese




  3. Rank 11. Cat House

    Chinese Noodles


  4. Rank 12. Shan Guo Tang

    Vegetarian Taiwanese


  5. Rank 13. Yi Hsuan

    Taiwanese



  6. Rank 15. Monsoon

    Hakkanese Vegetarian







  7. Rank 21. Garden.V

    Zhejiang






  8. Rank 26. Ang Gu

    Noodles


  9. Rank 27. HOYA

    Grilled Chinese


  10. Rank 28. Yeh Shu

    Taiwanese


  11. Rank 29. SABI

    Modern Japanese





  12. Rank 33. Tang Ming

    Taiwanese


  13. Rank 34. TAIVII

    Contemporary Taiwanese



  14. Rank 36. Yummy

    Taiwanese


  15. Rank 37. Firoo

    Wood-fired Taiwanese




  16. Rank 40. Pho Xŭ

    Vietnamese Noodles





  17. Rank 44. Jun

    Japanese



  18. Rank 46. Chuan Fu

    Wagyu Japanese








  19. Rank 53. Wan Wan

    Taiwanese


  20. Rank 54. Abba Hakka

    Hakkanese


  21. Rank 55. 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.



  22. Rank 57. Na Ka Seafood

    Seafood Taiwanese




  23. Rank 60. Shou Wu

    Hakkanese


  24. Rank 61. JIA YEN

    Zhejiang



  25. Rank 63. Jhen Pin

    Taiwanese


  26. Rank 64. 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.


  27. Rank 65. Le Palais

    Cantonese


  28. Rank 66. Lao Hsu

    Taiwanese



  29. 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.


  30. Rank 69. Eika

    Contemporary Japanese


  31. Rank 70. 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.









  32. Rank 78. Mudan

    Tempura Japanese



  33. Rank 80. 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.





  34. 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.


  35. Rank 85. 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.





  36. Rank 89. 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.


  37. Rank 90. 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.


  38. Rank 91. de nuit

    Contemporary French


  39. Rank 92. Mizue

    Japanese


  40. Rank 93. SÒNG JHAO

    Taiwanese



  41. Rank 95. 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.


  42. Rank 96. Kiku

    Japanese


  43. Rank 97. Hosu

    Contemporary Taiwanese





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