The Top 66 Restaurants Near Lumière
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A century-old family manor in Houbi, reworked into a spare, Nordic-feeling dining room lined with local serpentine stone and cypress wood. The chef trained in France and channels that into a contemporary European menu built around southern Taiwan's produce, including a signature egg dish that nods to the family's poultry-farming past. It's a quietly personal place, and the food reflects it.
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Rank 3. Shun Te Beef Soup
Chinese
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Rank 4. Yang Mei Tu Chi
Taiwanese
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Rank 5. Lien Wu Chiao Lamb Soup
Chinese
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Rank 6. Syan Syang
Taiwanese
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Rank 7. Shang Hao Chih Beef Soup
Taiwanese
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Rank 10. Hsi Lo Tien Beef Soup
Chinese
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Rank 11. A Xing Shi Mu Yu
Taiwanese
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Rank 12. CHAN CHI
Taiwanese
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Rank 13. Shian Jeng Shrimp Bawan
Taiwanese
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Rank 14. Huang Chia Shrimp Roll
Taiwanese
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Rank 16. Eat to Fat
Taiwanese
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Rank 17. Lo Cheng Migao
Chinese
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Rank 19. Yi Wei Pin
Taiwanese
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Rank 20. A Hsing Congee
Taiwanese
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Rank 22. Po Jen Tang
Taiwanese
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Rank 23. Amei
Taiwanese
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Rank 24. Zhu-Ji Dong Tsai Ya
Taiwanese
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Rank 25. Wenpapa Goose
Chinese
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Rank 26. Liang Liang Table
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 28. Principe
Contemporary French
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Rank 29. Jyu Dim
Cantonese
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A Tainan institution that claims to have invented calamari rice noodle soup, which is exactly the kind of claim a third-generation family shop earns the right to make. The thick rice noodles are hand-made from brown rice for fragrance and bite, and the clear broth runs peppery, clean, and slightly sweet. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand. Small, air-conditioned, and packed on holidays, so arriving early is the move.
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Rank 32. Yuan Zai Hui (Guohua Street)
Taiwanese
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Rank 33. Cheng Shi
Taiwanese
A noodle shop tucked down a winding lane, with the kind of plastic classroom chairs that suggest someone's grandmother is running things. The egg noodle soup comes in a clear kombu broth, veggie or clam, no fried toppings, no hot pot theatrics, just clean and simple in a way that draws long lunchtime queues. The Michelin Bib Gourmand is its only decoration. Noodle firmness is negotiable, which regulars have strong opinions about.
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Rank 34. A Wen Rice Cake
Chinese
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Rank 35. Jai Mi Ba
Taiwanese
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Rank 37. Dayong Street No Name Congee
Taiwanese
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Rank 38. Maan
European-Asian New American
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Rank 39. Zhu Xin Ju
Taiwanese
A restored red-brick mansion on Sinyi Street sets the stage for an omakase experience built around old Taiwanese banquet cooking. The chef works from traditional recipes, letting local seasonal ingredients carry the meal through seven dishes and a soup. It's the kind of formal, unhurried dinner where the room and the food are making the same argument about how things used to be done.
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Rank 40. Yu Dao
Contemporary Taiwanese
Set on a quiet island in Anping, this Michelin-starred contemporary Taiwanese restaurant takes its name from a phrase meaning "giving you an island," which turns out to be a fair description of what arrives at the table. The chef farms some of the produce on site and sources the rest locally, building a set menu around Tainan's communal banquet traditions. The non-alcoholic drink pairing leans into local teas and seasonal fruit in ways that make the wine list seem unadventurous.
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Rank 41. Mao Su
Vegetarian
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Rank 42. Hara Peko
French-influenced Japanese
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Rank 43. Di Yi Ding
Omakase Japanese
A restored 1960s mansion houses this intimate omakase counter, where the price of your meal is set by the ingredients rather than a fixed menu, an arrangement that keeps things honest and slightly suspenseful. Seafood is sourced from partner fishing boats around Taiwan and select Japanese imports, and first-timers tend to anchor the meal around crab or lobster. The wine list leans French, but BYOB is welcome.
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Rank 44. Eastern Castle Noodles
Noodles
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Rank 45. Musa
Thai
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Rank 46. The Temple-front Eatery
Taiwanese
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Rank 47. Hao Nung Chia Migao
Chinese
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Rank 49. A Ming Zhu Xing (Baoan Road)
Taiwanese
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Rank 50. A Cun Beef Soup (Baoan Road)
Taiwanese Chinese
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Rank 51. Chuan Chia Congee
Chinese
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Rank 52. Wang Jia Smoked Lamb
Chinese
Smoke from the cooking pits reaches you before the menu does. This semi-open-air restaurant sits on a mountainside outside the city, framed by green hills, and the kitchen's centerpiece is lamb slow-cooked for a full day in rice wine and a rotating blend of Chinese herbs, tuned warmer in winter and cooler in summer. The broth is dark and medicinal in the best way. Wild greens and game meats round things out, and the savory rice runs weekends only.
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Rank 53. Chuan Tai Hao Milkfish Ball
Taiwanese
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Rank 54. Good Hunan Cuisine
Hunanese
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Rank 55. A Hai Taiwanese Oden
Taiwanese
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Rank 56. L'herbe
French
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Rank 57. A-Yu Beef Shabu Shabu
Chinese
A beef shabu-shabu restaurant in Rende that runs its broth for eight hours before the doors open, so the golden, clear stock already tastes like someone else did the hard part. Hand-sliced beef from nearby Shanhua is the whole point, swished briefly through the pot. You fill out a form to choose your cuts, then help yourself to the sides and the braised beef rice that everyone ends up with anyway. No reservations, so arrive with patience and low blood sugar.
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Rank 58. BAA Wanli Goat
Taiwanese
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Rank 59. Ibu Kitchen
Taiwanese
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Rank 60. Hsiu Ming
Taiwanese
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Rank 61. Hu Dong Beef
Taiwanese
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Rank 62. Joes (Gangshan)
Taiwanese
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Rank 65. Liao Chi Migao
Chinese
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