The Top 100 Restaurants Near Shou Wu
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Rank 1. Shou Wu
Hakkanese
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Rank 2. JIA YEN
Zhejiang
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Rank 3. 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.
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Rank 4. Shang Hao
Chinese
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Rank 5. Da One Gone Lamb
Chinese
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Rank 8. Le Palais
Cantonese
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Rank 9. 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.
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Rank 10. Eika
Contemporary Japanese
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Rank 11. 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 12. 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 13. The Guest House
Sichuan
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Rank 14. Mountain and Sea House
Taiwanese
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Rank 15. Impromptu by Paul Lee
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 17. 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 18. 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 19. Jhen Pin
Taiwanese
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Rank 20. Mudan
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 21. 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 22. Su Lai Chuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 23. 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 24. Yuan Fang Guabao
Taiwanese
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Rank 25. Unnamed Clay Oven Roll
Chinese
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Rank 27. A-ba's Taro Ball
Taiwanese
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Rank 28. Yi Jia Zi
Tainan Chinese
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Rank 29. SÒNG JHAO
Taiwanese
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Rank 30. GARDEN h
Hakka
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Rank 31. 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 33. Yonghe Chia Hsiang Soy Milk
Taiwanese
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Rank 34. Tien Hsiang Lo
Zhejiang
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Rank 35. 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 36. de nuit
Contemporary French
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Rank 37. Tsai Chia Beef Noodles
Noodles
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Rank 38. Hang Zhou Xiao Long Bao (Da'an)
Shanghainese
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Rank 41. Serenity (Zhongzheng)
Vegetarian Sichuan
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Rank 42. 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 44. Mizue
Japanese
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Rank 45. Hosu
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 47. Ching Jiao
Jiangzhe
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Rank 48. Mai Mien Yen Tsai
Taiwanese
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Rank 49. ZEA
Taiwanese
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Rank 50. Din Tai Fung (Xinyi Road)
Shanghainese
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Rank 51. 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 52. Motoichi
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 53. San Fen Su Chi
Jiangzhe
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Rank 54. Xiang Se
European Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 57. Guang Xing Pork Knuckle
Chinese
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Rank 58. Ya Ge
Cantonese
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Rank 59. San Tung
Chinese
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Rank 60. JUNTO
Cantonese
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Rank 61. SENS
Contemporary French
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Rank 63. Chin Ta Lu Rou Fan
Chinese
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Rank 65. Jen Ho Yuan
Yunnan Chinese
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Rank 66. Kou Gyu Rou
Taiwanese
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Rank 67. The Dragon
Cantonese
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Rank 70. Huang Chi Lu Rou Fan
Taiwanese
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Rank 71. Inn's+ (Shuangcheng Street)
Taiwanese
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Rank 72. Uosho
Japanese
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Rank 73. 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 75. Chuan Mu Yuan
Cantonese
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Rank 76. L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon
Contemporary French
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Rank 78. Shih Chia Big Rice Ball
Hakkanese
Miaoli Hakkanese-style glutinous rice balls are the whole point here, stuffed with pork and vegetables and made from year-old round-grain sticky rice for that particular chewy pull. It's a casual counter spot that's been around forever, with a second-generation owner still running the same recipe his mother built the place on. The scallion oil chicken drumsticks have their own following. Check social media before you go, because the hours are their own puzzle.
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Rank 79. Little Tree Food (Da'an Road)
Vegetarian
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Rank 80. Tien Hsia San Chueh
Noodles
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Rank 81. Robin's Teppanyaki
Japanese
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Rank 82. fumée
Yakitori Japanese
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Rank 83. Antico Forno
Italian
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Rank 84. Yu Kapo
Japanese
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Rank 85. Talking Heads
Hunanese
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Rank 86. Chuan Ya
Sichuan
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Rank 87. Yu Yu 1969
Taiwanese
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Rank 89. Wamaki
Japanese
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Rank 90. Hsiao Cho Chih Chia
Taiwanese
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Rank 91. Tableau by Craig Yang
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 92. Bitan Chiao Tou Goose
Chinese
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Rank 93. Bei Ya Duck Thick Soup
Chinese
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Rank 94. Pàng
Taiwanese Mexican
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Rank 95. A Cheng Goose (Zhongshan)
Taiwanese
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Rank 96. Bak Kut Pan
Malaysian
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Rank 97. 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 98. Soft Power
Taiwanese
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Rank 99. Aleisha
Mediterranean
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Rank 100. Rong Rong Yuan
Zhejiang