The Bistro
Address: 9, Alley 18, Ln 222, Dunhua N Rd, Taipei (台北市敦化北路222巷18弄9號)
Telephone: (02) 2546 3525
Open: Lunch 12pm to 2pm Dinner 6pm to 9:30pm
Average meal: NT$1,000
Details: Major credit cards accepted. English menu
With a track record that boasts some of Taipei's most popular and successful Californian-style Italian restaurants under his belt, executive chef, Caleb Jackson, has repeated this achievement once again with his latest innovation, Muma: The Bistro. Opened last November, The Bistro sees the celebrated chef veering away from his tried and tested bar/restaurant format, and instead has cooked up a recipe for success with what he describes as "Californian with a French accent."
Sate House
Address: 15 Leli Rd, Taipei (台北市樂利街15號)
Telephone: (02) 2732 5048
Open: Lunch 11:30am to 2pm, dinner 5pm to 9pm
Average meal: NT$750 for two
Details: No English menu. Credit cards not accepted
Opened 11 years ago by Yang Man-yun (
Sui Shin (醉心)
Address: B1, 171 Yanji St, Taipei (台北市延吉街171號B1)
Telephone: (02) 2741 1100
Open: 2pm to 2:30pm, 6pm to 10pm
Average meal: NT$900
Details: English menu, credit cards accepted
The restaurant has an authentic Japanese flavor: meticulously designed dishes, zen-style decor, simple but elegant pottery tableware and quality service. This is one of the few places in Taipei to cook up authentic Kansai style Japanese cuisine. The chef creates nine dishes a month, most of which emphasize the original tastes of the food.
La Terrasse
Address: 1-2, Ln 222, Dunhua N Rd, Taipei
(台北市敦化北路222巷1-2號)
Telephone: (02) 2717 2525
Open: 12pm to 2:30pm, 6pm to 10:30pm
Average meal: lunch NT$500, dinner NT$1,000
Details: English and French menu, credit cards accepted
One of a few restaurants in Taipei specializing in southwestern French delicacies. Duck leg confit with sauteed potatoes and duck breast with green pepper sauce are the items not to pass up. At this cozy restaurant, graced with a pleasant terrace filled with flowers and herbs, diners enjoy authentic French fare in a decor of Chinese antique furniture.
Yishang Garden
Address: 41, Tianmu E Rd, Taipei (台北市天母東路41號)
Telephone: (02) 2871 7755
Open: 11am to midnight
Average meal: NT$300
Details: English menu available. Credit cards accepted.
Yishang Garden has 22 years of history behind it and in its new Tianmu location it has taken on a new and sophisticated look. Fortunately this has not been done at the expense of the food, which, if anything, is better than ever. The addition of a number of dishes that are now hard to come by makes a visit even more of an adventure. The menu at Yishang Garden is very extensive, incorporating Shanghai-style dim sum, banquet dishes, delicacies such as pickled crab, stir-fries and traditional Chinese sweets.
ORME Gallery (惑我會館)
Address: 45 Shuangcheng St, Taipei (台北市雙城街45號)
Telephone: (02) 2597 3838
Open: 11:30am to 2:30pm, 5:30pm to 10pm
Average meal: NT$600
Details: Credit cards accepted. Chinese menu
Chang Huei-min (
Kan Pai Yakiniku Restaurant (乾杯)
Address: 2-1, Ln 25, Nanjing W Rd, Taipei (台北市南京西路25巷2-1號)
Telephone: (02) 2555 6110
Open: 11am to 12am
Average meal: NT$400 plus 10 percent service charge
Details: Menu in Chinese, English and Japanese; Credit cards accepted. Parties of four or more should make a reservation.
If the only thing you can think about after dining out is taking a nap, you likely had a good meal. Leave it to a Japanese barbeque joint named after a drinking toast to put you in just such a state. Walk in to Kan Pai and you're greeted with the most deafening irasshaimase! you'll ever care to hear. The staff are decked out like a formula one pit crew, the speakers jam J-pop and customers empty one glass after another while getting their arms tangled turning meat on the grill.
Les Amis (Nitti's Jr.)
Address: 22 Da'an Rd, Ln 84, Taipei (台北市大安路84巷22號)
Telephone: (02) 2752-8251
Open: Sunday to Thursday 11am to 11pm; Friday and Saturday until 1am; closed Mondays
Average meal: NT$600 per person, dinner; NT$300, brunch and lunch, plus 10 percent service charge
Details: Credit cards accepted. Menu in Chinese and English
Mention Western-style breakfast and the next sentence out of anyone's mouth will likely contain the name Grandma Nitti's. Les Amis, which was opened by the owners of this Taipei institution, maintains the same earthy charm as Grandma Nitti's, while being much smaller.
Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢)
Address: 126 Xinyi Rd, Sec 2, Taipei (台北市信義路2段126號)
Telephone: (02) 2351 1031
Open: 11:30am to 2pm; 5:30pm to 3am
Average meal: NT$500
Details: Credit cards accepted. Chinese menuv
Although Taipei has no lack of hot pot restaurants, Wang Yin-chang (王英章) believes there should be more alternatives to the ubiquitous all-you-can-eat version. Dream of the Red Chamber was designed to evoke the world of the famous Qing-dynasty novel. Waitresses in traditional Chinese attire usher customers in to an interior composed of imported wooden Chinese furniture and walls decorated with ink paintings that show major characters from the novel. Delicate red lanterns hung from the high ceilings and the double staircase add to the quaint atmosphere.
Bel Air
Address: 2F, 2 Songshou Rd, Taipei (台北市松壽路2號2F)
Telephone: (02) 2720 1200 x 3198/3199 or (02) 2720-1129/1130
Open: 11:30am to 2:30 pm, 6pm to 10pm, closed on Sundays
Average meal: Business lunch starts at NT$990, set dinner from NT$2,000
Details: English menu. Credit cards accepted
If it was an important night out and you wanted a safe bet for dinner then the Bel Air restaurant on the second floor of the Grand Hyatt is a wise choice. Tastefully decorated and featuring a skylight and fountain, a white linen-covered table by a large window is said to be the most popular dining table in town for a marriage proposal.
In late October of 1873 the government of Japan decided against sending a military expedition to Korea to force that nation to open trade relations. Across the government supporters of the expedition resigned immediately. The spectacle of revolt by disaffected samurai began to loom over Japanese politics. In January of 1874 disaffected samurai attacked a senior minister in Tokyo. A month later, a group of pro-Korea expedition and anti-foreign elements from Saga prefecture in Kyushu revolted, driven in part by high food prices stemming from poor harvests. Their leader, according to Edward Drea’s classic Japan’s Imperial Army, was a samurai
Located down a sideroad in old Wanhua District (萬華區), Waley Art (水谷藝術) has an established reputation for curating some of the more provocative indie art exhibitions in Taipei. And this month is no exception. Beyond the innocuous facade of a shophouse, the full three stories of the gallery space (including the basement) have been taken over by photographs, installation videos and abstract images courtesy of two creatives who hail from the opposite ends of the earth, Taiwan’s Hsu Yi-ting (許懿婷) and Germany’s Benjamin Janzen. “In 2019, I had an art residency in Europe,” Hsu says. “I met Benjamin in the lobby
April 22 to April 28 The true identity of the mastermind behind the Demon Gang (魔鬼黨) was undoubtedly on the minds of countless schoolchildren in late 1958. In the days leading up to the big reveal, more than 10,000 guesses were sent to Ta Hwa Publishing Co (大華文化社) for a chance to win prizes. The smash success of the comic series Great Battle Against the Demon Gang (大戰魔鬼黨) came as a surprise to author Yeh Hung-chia (葉宏甲), who had long given up on his dream after being jailed for 10 months in 1947 over political cartoons. Protagonist
A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the largest animals ever on Earth. Researchers said on Wednesday the bone, called a surangular, was from a type of ocean-going reptile called an ichthyosaur. Based on its dimensions compared to the same bone in closely related ichthyosaurs, the researchers estimated that the Triassic Period creature, which they named Ichthyotitan severnensis, was between 22-26 meters long. That would make it perhaps the largest-known marine reptile and would