Taipei for foodies

Best restaurants

Taipei eats late and eats seriously. The city's dining rooms are stacked into department-store basements, tucked down lane numbers you have to hunt for, and strung along the arteries of Xinyi and Da'an where the office crowd empties out at 18:00 and the ramen shops brace for it. This list is twelve restaurants you can find on a map: every one of them mapped in OpenStreetMap, addressed to a specific number on a specific 巷 or 段, phone answered in Mandarin. What it is not: a chase after Michelin stars or the influencer queue of the month. What it is: European rooms open past 23:00, buffet halls that run three seatings before dinner, an Indian kitchen closed Mondays because the chef says so, a burger counter down a Tonghua Street alley, and the ramen shop that anchors an alley off Zhongxiao East. Pick by hour, by neighbourhood, by what you feel like eating. The addresses are exact. The rest is up to you.