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The 100 Best Restaurants in Taiwan

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The best restaurants in Taiwan, according to the experts: the Michelin Guide, The 50, and the Chinese Restaurant Awards have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. JL STUDIO comes out on top, and the good stuff runs deepest in Taipei and Tainan.

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Le Palais and Taïrroir hold the next two places. The Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with The 50 next.

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  1. A fine dining restaurant in Taichung where the chef grew up eating at his father's hawker stall in Singapore and never quite got over it. Three Michelin stars and a spot on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants, yet the animating idea is street food: childhood flavors pulled into a tasting menu format without being dismantled just to prove a point. The kaya toast dessert, served inside a frozen coconut shell, is the kind of thing that makes you stop mid-bite.


  2. Rank 2. Le Palais

    Cantonese


  3. Rank 2. 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.


  4. Rank 4. logy

    Japanese-Taiwanese

    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.


  5. 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.


  6. Rank 6. 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.


  7. Rank 7. 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.


  8. Rank 7. Eika

    Contemporary Japanese

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  9. Rank 7. L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon

    Contemporary French

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    Address
    5F, Bellavita, 28 Songren Road, Xinyi District, Taipei, Taipei 110, Taiwan · Taipei
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Wednesday 11:30 AM–2:30 PM, 6 PM–9:30 PM

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    WebsiteInstagram
  10. Rank 7. 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.

    The awards


  11. Rank 7. 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.


    Address
    8 Tai'an Street, Zhongzheng District, Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan · Taipei
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–3 PM, 6 PM–10 PM

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    Make a reservation
    Online
    WebsiteInstagram
  12. Rank 7. Yu Kapo

    Japanese

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  13. Rank 13. Ad Astra

    Contemporary Japanese

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  14. Rank 13. aMaze

    Creative Zhejiang

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  15. Rank 13. Ban Bo

    contemporary Taiwanese

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  16. Rank 13. Chuan Ya

    Sichuan

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  17. Rank 13. 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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  18. Rank 13. de nuit

    Contemporary French

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  19. Rank 13. FRASSI

    Contemporary Italian

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  21. Rank 13. GEN

    Cantonese

    The camel-and-neutral dining room reads calmer than most Kaohsiung evenings, which suits the cooking: a Michelin-starred Cantonese restaurant where the Hong Kong chef, with decades in Hong Kong and Beijing kitchens, pulls classic technique in a quietly modern direction. Set menus run at a few price tiers, or there's à la carte. The crispy young pigeon, sourced from southern Taiwan and basted to a lacquered crackle, is the detail people mention on the way out.

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  23. Rank 13. Hābu

    Medicinal Chinese

    A one-Michelin-star restaurant in Kaohsiung where the kitchen builds flavor from broths and house-made sauces rather than butter or salt, leaning on Chinese medicinal herbs and global spices to do the heavy lifting. The kaiseki-influenced tasting menu shifts with the seasons, and the tea-based non-alcoholic pairings are the move. It's a quiet, considered room, the kind where subtlety reads as confidence rather than timidity.

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  24. Rank 13. HAILI

    French Japanese

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  25. Rank 13. Hosu

    Contemporary Taiwanese

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  26. Rank 13. Impromptu by Paul Lee

    Modern Taiwanese

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  27. Rank 13. 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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  28. Rank 13. Kiku

    Japanese

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  29. Rank 13. L'Atelier par Yao

    Modern French

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  31. Rank 13. 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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  32. Rank 13. Mipon

    Taiwanese

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  34. Rank 13. Nibbon

    Taiwanese-Japanese French

    There's no sign on the door, which is either very cool or a genuine navigation problem, depending on your mood. Inside, this fine dining tasting menu restaurant blends French technique with Taiwanese traditions and Japanese ingredients through a seasonal menu that shifts with what's good. A Michelin star. The dice on the table, marked with percentages for your preferred level of server interaction, is either charming or a little on the nose, but it does break the ice.

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  35. Rank 13. Restaurant 12

    French-inflected Spanish

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    Address
    12 Jianye Road, Shilin District, Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan · Taipei
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5:30 PM

    Wednesday 5:30 PM–10 PM

    Online
    WebsiteInstagram
  36. Rank 13. SENS

    Contemporary French

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  38. Rank 13. SHINEYU

    Cantonese

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  39. Rank 13. Sho

    Japanese

    A wooden counter wraps the open kitchen at this Japanese-influenced fine dining room in Kaohsiung, white walls and shoji screens keeping things calm while the team works through seasonal ingredients sourced from Japan and Taiwan. The menu moves through subtle, layered courses, with kamameshi built around glossy Taitung rice as a recurring anchor. A Michelin star hangs on the wall, and the kitchen earns it quietly, without fuss.


  40. Rank 13. Sur-

    Contemporary Taiwanese

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  41. Rank 13. T+T

    Contemporary Pan-Asian

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  45. Rank 13. 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.

    The awards


  46. Rank 13. Ya Ge

    Cantonese


  47. Rank 13. 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.

    The awards


  48. Rank 13. YUENJI

    Taiwanese

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  49. Rank 13. ZEA

    Latin American

    Eight counter seats and a semi-private room for ten make ZEA one of Taipei's more intimate dinner reservations. The chef, Argentine-born and globally seasoned, weaves Latin American technique through Taiwanese ingredients, with his partner running the front of house. The result is a small, unhurried tasting experience that feels more like a dinner party than a restaurant, and holds a Michelin star.


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  51. Rank 50. A Kun Mian

    Taiwanese

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  56. Rank 50. Ajisai

    Zhejiang

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  57. Rank 50. Amei

    Taiwanese

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  62. Rank 50. Caizong Li

    Taiwanese

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  63. Rank 50. CHAN CHI

    Taiwanese

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  65. Rank 50. Chao Ming

    Taiwanese

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  66. Rank 50. 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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  69. Rank 50. Ching Jiao

    Jiangzhe

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  74. Rank 50. Clavius

    Vegetarian Taiwanese

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  79. The original location of a chain that now circles the globe, this Taipei dumpling institution is where xiaolongbao became a religion. Chefs in white baseball caps work behind glass in full view, folding each pouch with a precision that borders on performance art. The tick-box menu covers wontons, sticky rice parcels, and more. The Michelin Guide awards it a Bib Gourmand, and the queue outside most hours tells you the rest.


  80. Rank 50. Eat to Fat

    Taiwanese

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    Address
    560, Section 1, Taiwan Boulevard, Central District, Taichung, Taichung 400, Taiwan · Taichung
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Wednesday 11 AM–2:30 PM, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM

    Online
    Website
  84. Rank 50. Fu Juang Yuan

    Taiwanese

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  87. Rank 50. Garden.V

    Zhejiang

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  95. Rank 50. Hsiu Ming

    Taiwanese

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  97. Rank 50. Hu Dong Beef

    Taiwanese

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