The Top 100 Restaurants Near Ruins Coffee Roasters
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Rank 1. L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon
Contemporary French
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Rank 2. Mudan
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 3. 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 4. Chuan Ya
Sichuan
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Rank 5. Kiku
Japanese
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Rank 6. de nuit
Contemporary French
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Rank 7. ZEA
Taiwanese
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Rank 8. Hosu
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 9. 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 10. Motoichi
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 11. 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 12. Yu Kapo
Japanese
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Rank 13. Mizue
Japanese
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Rank 14. 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 15. Mountain and Sea House
Taiwanese
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Rank 16. 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 17. Le Palais
Cantonese
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Rank 18. 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 19. 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 23. Ya Ge
Cantonese
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Rank 24. The Guest House
Sichuan
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Rank 25. SENS
Contemporary French
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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 27. Lai Kang Shan
Chinese
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.
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Rank 29. 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 30. Impromptu by Paul Lee
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 33. San Tung
Chinese
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Rank 34. Bei Ya Duck Thick Soup
Chinese
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Rank 35. Bitan Chiao Tou Goose
Chinese
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Rank 36. Tsai Chia Beef Noodles
Noodles
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Rank 37. Pàng
Taiwanese Mexican
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Rank 38. Yonghe Chia Hsiang Soy Milk
Taiwanese
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Rank 39. Tableau by Craig Yang
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 40. GARDEN h
Hakka
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Rank 41. Talking Heads
Hunanese
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Rank 42. Sinchao Rice Shoppe
Taiwanese
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Rank 43. Bak Kut Pan
Malaysian
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Rank 44. Tien Hsia San Chueh
Noodles
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Rank 45. SÒNG JHAO
Taiwanese
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Rank 46. Tien Hsiang Lo
Zhejiang
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Rank 47. Little Tree Food (Da'an Road)
Vegetarian
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Rank 48. Din Tai Fung (Xinyi Road)
Shanghainese
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Rank 49. A-ba's Taro Ball
Taiwanese
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Rank 50. Eika
Contemporary Japanese
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Rank 51. 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 52. Tsui Feng Yuan
Cantonese
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Rank 53. 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 54. Hang Zhou Xiao Long Bao (Da'an)
Shanghainese
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Rank 55. Zaap
Thai
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Rank 56. Muji Beef Noodles
Noodles
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Rank 57. Sansan Bistro
Neo Sichuan
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Rank 58. Ephernité
Contemporary French
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Rank 59. 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 60. Yu Yu 1969
Taiwanese
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Rank 62. Ching Jiao
Jiangzhe
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Rank 63. 85TD
Modern Cantonese
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Rank 65. Jin Shang Hsuan
Taiwanese Chinese
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Rank 66. Antico Forno
Italian
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Rank 67. Lin
Contemporary French
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Rank 69. KUR
Contemporary Japanese
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Rank 70. EMBERS
Taiwanese
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Rank 71. 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.
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Rank 72. Gi Yuan
Sichuan
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Rank 73. Rong Rong Yuan
Zhejiang
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Rank 74. San Fen Su Chi
Jiangzhe
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Rank 75. Yuu
Japanese
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Rank 78. PEI FULL
Zhejiang
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Rank 79. Komboi
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 81. Vanne Yakiniku
Japanese
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Rank 82. Unnamed Clay Oven Roll
Chinese
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Rank 83. Halal Chinese Beef Noodles (Da'an)
Beef Noodles
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Rank 85. Serenity (Zhongzheng)
Vegetarian Sichuan
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Rank 86. Toriaezu Curry
Japanese
Warm wood, minimal fuss, and a single-minded dedication to Japanese curry: this small Songshan dining spot holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and earns it by keeping the menu short and the dashi-based curry deeply savory. You pick from three toppings, fried chicken, a Scotch egg with a properly runny yolk, or kadaif-wrapped shrimp, and the kitchen rounds things out with seasonal vegetables. Matcha panna cotta closes the meal quietly and well.
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Rank 87. 3927
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 88. ÉCRU
Japanese-influenced French
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Rank 89. Clavius
Vegetarian Taiwanese
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Rank 90. Shin Yeh Taiwanese Signature
Taiwanese
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Rank 91. Mipon
Taiwanese
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Rank 92. Aleisha
Mediterranean
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Rank 93. Ban Bo
contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 95. aMaze
Creative Zhejiang
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Rank 96. FRASSI
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 99. Rong Ju
Cantonese
Faux red brick overhead gives the dining room the feel of a modern Chinese home, warm without being heavy. This is a Cantonese set-menu restaurant inside the Capella hotel, where the kitchen layers contemporary touches onto the classics, truffle finding its way into the dim sum, sakura ebi into the stir-fried cabbage. The tea selection is curated to pair with the meal, which is the kind of detail that separates a thoughtful kitchen from a merely competent one.
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Rank 100. Xiang Se
European Contemporary Taiwanese