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  1. 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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  2. Rank 67. Yeh San Duck Thick Soup

    Xingang Taiwanese

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  3. Rank 67. Yi Ge Rice Vermicelli

    Taiwanese Noodle Shop

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  4. Rank 67. Yi Jia Zi

    Tainan Taiwanese

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  5. Rank 67. Yi Wei Pin

    Taiwanese

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  7. Rank 67. Yu Yu 1969

    Taiwanese

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  11. Rank 67. Yung Yen

    Taiwanese

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  13. Rank 213. Adachi

    Sushi

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  14. Rank 213. Akame

    Taiwanese

    The winding mountain road to Guchabo'an village is part of the meal before you've sat down. Akame, named for "grill" in the Rukai language, is a restaurant rooted in the food culture of Taiwan's indigenous tribes, run by a chef who grew up in this village and forages much of what lands on the plate. The cooking is punchy and specific to this hillside, with wildflowers doing more than decoration. It holds a 50 Best Discovery listing.

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  15. Rank 213. Coast

    Thai Seafood

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  17. A specialty coffee shop on Dihua Street, one of Taipei's oldest commercial strips, where the narrow shophouse format and the smell of roasting beans compete for your attention. The team roasts in-house and pours to order, which means you'll wait a little and won't mind. Relaxed enough that regulars spread out with laptops and books and nobody rushes them along.



  18. The oven sits dead center in the room, so you watch the pizza makers the whole time, which turns out to be half the point. This is a compact Neapolitan-style pizzeria, eight or ten wooden tables, big windows, and a menu that stays almost entirely focused on pizza, red or white, plus a few focaccias. The dough has real structure and a properly blistered crust. Ranked on 50 Top Pizza Asia-Pacific, and reservations are worth booking ahead.


  19. Rank 222. 3927

    Modern Taiwanese

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  20. Rank 222. 85TD

    Modern Cantonese

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  27. 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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  28. Rank 222. Aleisha

    Mediterranean

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  29. Rank 222. Amajia

    Taiwanese

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  30. Rank 222. Anchovy

    Seafood

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  32. Rank 222. Apis Grill

    Barbecue

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  33. Rank 222. Baho (Da'an)

    Barbecue

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  34. Rank 222. Bak Kut Pan

    Malaysian

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  35. Rank 222. Bencotto

    Italian

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  37. Rank 222. Bo Home

    Taiwanese

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  38. Rank 222. 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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  39. Rank 222. CEO 1950

    European

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  44. Rank 222. Cheng Jia

    Taiwanese

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  45. The wooden tables are covered in what looks like a kindergarten art project, and the room is packed before you've found a seat. This is an old-school Taiwanese rice shop built around one thing: smoked duck over steamed rice with a sauce the family isn't explaining. The duck leg rice sells out daily, which means arriving with a plan. A bowl of duck offal soup alongside is the move regulars already know.

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  46. Rank 222. Cheng's Noodles

    Noodle Shop

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  47. Rank 222. Chi Yuan

    Taiwanese

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  48. Rank 222. Chia I

    Seafood

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  52. Rank 222. Cho

    Taiwanese

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  54. Rank 222. Chuan Fu

    Wagyu Japanese

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  55. Rank 222. Chuan Mu Yuan

    Cantonese

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  57. Rank 222. Chun Yu Garden

    Creative Chinese

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  58. Rank 222. 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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    Address
    4F, Bellavita, 28 Songren Road, Xinyi District, Taipei, Taipei 110, Taiwan · Taipei
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Wednesday 11:30 AM–2:30 PM, 5:30 PM–9:30 PM

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  60. Rank 222. CRATAIN

    European

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  63. Rank 222. 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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  64. Rank 222. 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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  66. Rank 222. Eastern Castle Noodles

    Cantonese Noodle Shop

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  67. Rank 222. ÉCRU

    Japanese-influenced French

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  68. Rank 222. EMBERS

    Taiwanese

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  69. Rank 222. enPure

    Modern Taiwanese

    A garden path leads you in before the food even starts, which sets the tone: this is a tasting menu restaurant in a minimalist room of brick red and grey, where a former interior designer runs the kitchen. The cooking is modern Taiwanese, built around local produce, and the rice cooked in a claypot with tea seed oil from a partner farm is the kind of dish that makes the sourcing worth mentioning. The tea pairing is an easy yes.

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  70. Rank 222. Ephernité

    Contemporary French

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  72. Rank 222. FIRNS

    Franco-Asian French

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  73. Rank 222. Firoo

    Wood-fired Taiwanese

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  74. Rank 222. Fleur de Sel

    Contemporary French

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  75. Rank 222. Fon-Cé

    Latin American

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  76. Rank 222. Forchetta

    Taiwanese

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  78. Rank 222. fumée

    Yakitori Japanese

    The open kitchen runs loud and hot, with flames climbing high enough to make the modern room feel like an old Tokyo alley. Fumée is a yakitori restaurant inside the Regent Hotel, running two nightly seatings through a set tasting menu with an optional sake pairing. It's the sister spot to an Osaka original, and the sourcing shows in the skewers. Sleek space, serious smoke.


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  80. Rank 222. Gi Yuan

    Sichuan

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  85. Rank 222. 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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  87. Rank 222. Happy Garden

    Taiwanese

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  88. Rank 222. Happy Hwa

    Chinese

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  89. Rank 222. Hara Peko

    French-influenced Japanese

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  90. Rank 222. Hibiki Seafood

    Seafood Taiwanese

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    Address
    356 Shizheng North 2nd Road, Xitun District, Taichung, Taichung 407, Taiwan · Taichung
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    Closed now, opens 11:45 AM

    Wednesday 11:45 AM–2:30 PM, 5:45 PM–9:30 PM

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  91. Rank 222. Hijo

    Seafood

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    Address
    170, Section 2, Chang'an East Road, Zhongshan District, Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan · Taipei
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Wednesday 11:30 AM–2 PM, 5:30 PM–10:30 PM

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  92. Rank 222. Ho Chu Yuan

    Taiwanese

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    Address
    63 Nanzhong Street, North District, Hsinchu City, Northern Taiwan, Taiwan · Hsinchu City
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Wednesday 11:30 AM–1:50 PM, 5:30 PM–8:30 PM

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  93. Rank 222. Home Dishes

    Cantonese

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  94. Rank 222. HOYA

    Grilled Chinese

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  95. Rank 222. Hui Chung

    Vegetarian Cantonese Noodle Shop

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  96. Rank 222. Huí Huí

    Asian-influenced French

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  97. Rank 222. huist

    Taiwanese

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