The Best Taiwanese Food in Los Angeles
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The best Taiwanese food in Los Angeles, according to the experts: the Michelin Guide, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Pine & Crane comes out on top, and the good stuff runs deepest in Alhambra and Los Angeles.
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Dai Ho and Eat Joy Food hold the next two places. The Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with Eater next.
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Rank 1. Pine & Crane
Taiwanese Café
The clay pot of three-cup Jidori chicken arrives at your table still simmering, which tells you everything about how seriously this casual Taiwanese restaurant takes itself. Exposed brick, concrete floors, and a laid-back South LA vibe don't telegraph the kitchen's precision, but the Michelin Bib Gourmand does. Vegetarian takes on mapo tofu and dumplings hold their own alongside the meat dishes, and the lotus root salad is quietly worth ordering.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
- The New York Times The New York Times: The 25 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles Right Now
- Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times: #76 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles Right Now
- Los Angeles Times #76 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
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Rank 2. Dai Ho
Taiwanese
Doors open at 11:30 and close a few hours later, which tells you everything: this small Taiwanese restaurant in Temple City operates on its own terms, and the lines that form before opening tell you the neighborhood is fine with that. The menu hangs above the cash register, so you read it standing up. Tea arrives in a Styrofoam cup without asking. Expect to be out in twenty minutes, holding a Michelin Bib Gourmand memory.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 2. Eat Joy Food
Authentic Taiwanese
Tucked into the back of a Rowland Heights strip mall stacked floor-to-ceiling with restaurants, this Taiwanese spot is the kind of place you almost drive past three times before finding. Inside, the warehouse floors and generously spaced tables make it unusually calm for a menu that reads like a small novel, packed with seafood, consommés, and rice dishes. The Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand, and regulars tend to already know what they're ordering before they sit down.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 4. Pinecone Bakeshop and Cafe
Taiwanese Bakery
Fruit tarts are the whole point at this Taiwanese bakery in Alhambra, where the crusts are milled from Tehachapi Sonora wheat and the fillings lean on local farms, including strawberries from Harry's Berries. The chef trained at Le Cordon Bleu and did time at Milo and Olive, and the drinks menu runs single-origin espresso, hojicha, and seasonal sparkling sodas alongside. A focused, careful little shop doing one thing with very deliberate ingredients.
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