The Top 100 Restaurants Near Spot Café Lumière
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Rank 1. 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 2. 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 3. Le Palais
Cantonese
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Rank 4. 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 5. The Guest House
Sichuan
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Rank 6. Mountain and Sea House
Taiwanese
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Rank 7. Impromptu by Paul Lee
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 9. 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 10. 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 11. Ching Jiao
Jiangzhe
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Rank 12. Wamaki
Japanese
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Rank 14. Serenity (Zhongzheng)
Vegetarian Sichuan
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Rank 15. 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 16. Tien Hsiang Lo
Zhejiang
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Rank 18. Mudan
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 19. Din Tai Fung (Xinyi Road)
Shanghainese
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Rank 20. Hang Zhou Xiao Long Bao (Da'an)
Shanghainese
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Rank 21. Yu Yu 1969
Taiwanese
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Rank 22. Mizue
Japanese
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Rank 23. The Dragon
Cantonese
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Rank 24. Uosho
Japanese
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Rank 25. Eika
Contemporary Japanese
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Rank 26. 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 27. 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 28. 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 29. fumée
Yakitori Japanese
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Rank 30. Robin's Teppanyaki
Japanese
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Rank 31. Ya Ge
Cantonese
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Rank 32. Aleisha
Mediterranean
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Rank 33. Little Tree Food (Da'an Road)
Vegetarian
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Rank 34. A Cheng Goose (Zhongshan)
Taiwanese
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Rank 35. SENS
Contemporary French
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Rank 36. Tien Hsia San Chueh
Noodles
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Rank 37. JUNTO
Cantonese
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Rank 39. Jen Ho Yuan
Yunnan Chinese
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Rank 41. de nuit
Contemporary French
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Rank 42. Motoichi
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 43. Hosu
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 45. Kiku
Japanese
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Rank 46. ZEA
Taiwanese
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Rank 47. Cheng Jia
Taiwanese
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Rank 48. Huang Chi Lu Rou Fan
Taiwanese
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Rank 49. Tsui Feng Yuan
Cantonese
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Rank 50. 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 53. Chuan Mu Yuan
Cantonese
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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 55. Yu Kapo
Japanese
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Rank 56. L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon
Contemporary French
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Rank 57. Komboi
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 58. Paris 1930 de Hideki Takayama
Contemporary French
A Japanese chef running a contemporary French kitchen on the second floor of a Taipei hotel sounds like a setup, but the seasonally shifting millefeuille and seafood-forward menus built around local teas and spices make a quiet case for the combination. The room is understated to the point of calm, and both wine and tea sommeliers are on hand, which does rather raise the bar for your next dinner party.
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Rank 59. 3927
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 60. Soft Power
Taiwanese
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Rank 61. Talking Heads
Hunanese
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Rank 63. Xiang Se
European Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 64. Hsiao Cho Chih Chia
Taiwanese
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Rank 65. Rong Rong Yuan
Zhejiang
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Rank 66. Inn's+ (Shuangcheng Street)
Taiwanese
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Rank 69. Xiao Ping Kitchen (Zhongshan)
Taiwanese
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Rank 70. Chuan Ya
Sichuan
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Rank 71. Lin Ju
Cantonese
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Rank 72. Mipon
Taiwanese
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Rank 73. aMaze
Creative Zhejiang
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Rank 75. Vanne Yakiniku
Japanese
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Rank 76. Shin Yeh Taiwanese Signature
Taiwanese
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Rank 77. Ban Bo
contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 78. Tableau by Craig Yang
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 79. FRASSI
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 80. ÉCRU
Japanese-influenced French
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Rank 81. Kou Gyu Rou
Taiwanese
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Rank 83. Chaud Doux
French
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Rank 84. 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 85. Thai & Thai
Thai
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Rank 86. Jin Shang Hsuan
Taiwanese Chinese
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Rank 87. Gi Yuan
Sichuan
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Rank 88. Bencotto
Italian
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Rank 89. Tajimaya Shabu Shabu
Japanese
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Rank 90. CEO 1950
Contemporary French
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Rank 91. Mai Mien Yen Tsai
Taiwanese
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Rank 92. Antico Forno
Italian
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Rank 93. Tutto Bello
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 94. Tsuki Yo Iwa
Japanese
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Rank 95. Pàng
Taiwanese Mexican
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Rank 96. Yi Jia Zi
Tainan Chinese
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Rank 97. EMBERS
Taiwanese
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Rank 98. Shin Yeh Taiwanese Cuisine
Taiwanese
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