THE BEST Restaurants in Taipei

🍽️ Restaurants in Taipei

• Din Tai Fung — Din Tai Fung is the world-famous Taiwanese dumpling restaurant chain, founded in Taipei in 1958. The original Xinyi location is known for its soup dumplings (xiaolongbao) with 18 folds, made fresh by hand and steamed to order.
• Shilin Night Market — Taipei's largest night market, with hundreds of food stalls serving fried chicken, oyster omelets, bubble tea, and stinky tofu.
• Raohe Night Market — A 600-meter night market in eastern Taipei, famous for its pepper bun (hu jiao bing) stall at the entrance and a wide variety of Taiwanese street food.
• Yongkang Beef Noodles — Yongkang Beef Noodles is a legendary beef noodle soup restaurant on Yongkang Street, serving rich, slow-braised beef broth with hand-pulled noodles since 1963, considered one of Taipei's best.
• Lin Dong Fang — Lin Dong Fang is a Michelin Bib Gourmand beef noodle shop in Bade Road, serving tender braised beef noodles since 1976, with a half-fat, half-lean beef that melts in the mouth.
• Kao Chi — Kao Chi is a Shanghai-style restaurant on Yongkang Street, known for its soup dumplings, pan-fried pork buns, and scallion pancakes, a Taipei institution since the 1950s.
• Fuhang Soy Milk — Fuhang Soy Milk is a famous breakfast shop in Huashan Market, with lines down the block for its thick sesame flatbreads, egg crepes, and savory soy milk with pickled vegetables and chili oil.
• Addiction Aquatic Development — Addiction Aquatic Development is a high-end sushi and seafood market near the fish market in Zhongshan, with fresh sashimi, oysters, and grilled seafood in a stylish industrial setting.
• Mala Hotpot — Mala Hotpot is a popular Sichuan-style hotpot chain with locations across Taipei, known for its spicy mala broth, premium ingredients, and all-you-can-eat Häagen-Dazs ice cream.
• Shin Yeh — Shin Yeh is a renowned Taiwanese restaurant chain, serving traditional dishes like three-cup chicken, braised pork rice, and pan-fried pig liver in an elegant setting since 1977.
• Ice Monster — Ice Monster is a famous shaved ice dessert shop on Zhongxiao East Road, known for its mango shaved ice with fresh mango, condensed milk, and mango sorbet, a Michelin Bib Gourmand winner.
• Ay-Chung Flour-Rice Noodles — Ay-Chung Flour-Rice Noodles is a legendary street food stall in Ximending, serving bowls of thin rice noodles in a rich pork-bone broth with intestines and chili sauce since 1975.
• James Kitchen — James Kitchen is a Michelin Bib Gourmand Taiwanese restaurant in Zhongshan, serving home-style dishes like oyster omelet, fried rice noodles, and three-cup chicken in a casual setting.
• Tian Jin Flaky Scallion Pancake — Tian Jin Flaky Scallion Pancake is a popular street food stall in Zhongshan, serving crispy, flaky scallion pancakes with egg and optional fillings, with lines at lunchtime.
• Wu Wei Tsao Tie — Wu Wei Tsao Tie is a dumpling restaurant chain in Taipei, known for its Sichuan-style dumplings in chili oil (chaoshou) and beef noodle soup, with locations in Ximending and elsewhere.
• Lao Shan Dong — Lao Shan Dong is a historic beef noodle shop in Guangzhou Street, serving authentic Shandong-style beef noodles with hand-pulled noodles and a rich, spicy broth since 1949.
• Yonghe Soy Milk — Yonghe Soy Milk is a 24-hour breakfast chain originating from Taipei's Yonghe district, serving warm soy milk, sesame flatbreads, egg crepes, and fried dough sticks (youtiao).
• Chun Shui Tang — Chun Shui Tang is the teahouse that claims to have invented bubble tea (pearl milk tea) in Taichung in 1986, with a Taipei branch serving boba tea, tea-infused dishes, and noodles.
• Chen San Ding — Chen San Ding is a famous bubble tea shop in Gongguan, serving fresh tapioca boba in brown sugar milk tea, with lines of students from nearby National Taiwan University.
• Fong Da Coffee — Fong Da Coffee is a specialty coffee shop in Ximending since 1956, roasting beans on-site and serving hand-drip coffee, espresso, and Taiwanese-style coffee with a vintage atmosphere.