Say you've just opened a restaurant-sports bar in the atrium of the capital's new stadium. How do you make it different from the other already popular bars in the neighborhood? If you're Deluxe, you make it twice the size. Opened Dec. 1, the city's newest restaurant-sports bar is easily its largest, occupying nearly the whole back side of the stadium.
But Deluxe also has its own brand of beer. Three to be exact -- a pilsner, wiessen and dunkel -- available in either a 300cc size (NT$180) or a 600cc glass (NT$300). Alternatively, you can have it brought to the table in tap-it-yourself glass tubes of two liters or more. The pilsner I had on a visit this past week was at least as good or better than the many micro brews that have bubbled up in Taipei over the past couple years.
It did well washing down the lasagna I'd ordered -- a happy thing, as washing it down was exactly what I wanted it to do. Like the beer, the lasagna and other pastas on the menu come in two sizes. I'd ordered the large but was a bit disappointed that the dish which came to the table was on the thin side, with only a couple layers of pasta. Not much like what grandma made.
PHOTO: DAVID MOMPHARD, TAIPEI TIMES
In addition to a selection of pastas, entrees range from a deluxe hot dog (NT$320) or burger (NT$380) to the chef's choice 10oz prime rib (NT$1,200).
On a second visit later in the week (guess I wasn't all that disappointed) I tucked into the burger, topped with avocado. You have a choice of toppings where the burgers are concerned, including cheese, bacon and even pineapple.
The weissen that washed it down, like its pilsner pal, had a fruity flavor to it and wasn't as heavy as some local micro brew wiessens. Visitors to Deluxe will notice the giant brass brewing vats behind the bar, but don't be deceived as they currently sit unused.
"We'll start brewing on the premises in the future. There's a lot of set up and preparation involved," said Deluxe's assistant manager, Colin Deng (鄧運霖). "Once we start, though, we'll be the first sports bar in Taipei City to do our brewing on location. Our customers can watch the beer being made." Deng said that Deluxe will soon be hosting a weekly ladies night. Currently, happy hour drink specials are available Monday through Thursday from 7pm to 9pm.
May 11 to May 18 The original Taichung Railway Station was long thought to have been completely razed. Opening on May 15, 1905, the one-story wooden structure soon outgrew its purpose and was replaced in 1917 by a grandiose, Western-style station. During construction on the third-generation station in 2017, workers discovered the service pit for the original station’s locomotive depot. A year later, a small wooden building on site was determined by historians to be the first stationmaster’s office, built around 1908. With these findings, the Taichung Railway Station Cultural Park now boasts that it has
The latest Formosa poll released at the end of last month shows confidence in President William Lai (賴清德) plunged 8.1 percent, while satisfaction with the Lai administration fared worse with a drop of 8.5 percent. Those lacking confidence in Lai jumped by 6 percent and dissatisfaction in his administration spiked up 6.7 percent. Confidence in Lai is still strong at 48.6 percent, compared to 43 percent lacking confidence — but this is his worst result overall since he took office. For the first time, dissatisfaction with his administration surpassed satisfaction, 47.3 to 47.1 percent. Though statistically a tie, for most
In February of this year the Taipei Times reported on the visit of Lienchiang County Commissioner Wang Chung-ming (王忠銘) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and a delegation to a lantern festival in Fuzhou’s Mawei District in Fujian Province. “Today, Mawei and Matsu jointly marked the lantern festival,” Wang was quoted as saying, adding that both sides “being of one people,” is a cause for joy. Wang was passing around a common claim of officials of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the PRC’s allies and supporters in Taiwan — KMT and the Taiwan People’s Party — and elsewhere: Taiwan and
Six weeks before I embarked on a research mission in Kyoto, I was sitting alone at a bar counter in Melbourne. Next to me, a woman was bragging loudly to a friend: She, too, was heading to Kyoto, I quickly discerned. Except her trip was in four months. And she’d just pulled an all-nighter booking restaurant reservations. As I snooped on the conversation, I broke out in a sweat, panicking because I’d yet to secure a single table. Then I remembered: Eating well in Japan is absolutely not something to lose sleep over. It’s true that the best-known institutions book up faster
RSS