Taipei
Built in 1940, this is one of the best-preserved large Japanese-style residences in Taiwan. With its heritage styling, great natural lighting and garden,…
Must-see nightlife in Taiwan
Kaohsiung
A laid-back bar right on Cijin Beach offering an assortment of craft beers and fresh fruit smoothies. It's great for watching the sunset, especially…
Western Taiwan
Opened by an engaging Lukang native in a charming old building, Home Bar offers dozens of craft beers, a handful of whiskies and the occasional fried…
Kinmen
There are cheaper cafes, but this lovable place serves deep-roast, chocolatey-flavoured espressos and its comfy upstairs lounge is a great perch for…
Nantou County
On the 3rd floor of the luxury Fleur de Chine Hotel is this bright cafe with fantastic lake views. It serves locally grown Assam black tea. During…
Taipei
This ultrahip cafe-bar has a marvellous leafy yard, perfect for a lazy afternoon wine or coffee. This is where the beautiful people flock at night. Craft…
Northern Taiwan
A relaxed, convivial craft beer bar with sophisticated bar snacks and an outdoor patio. Zhangmen's clientele is a mix of tech-industry types and Japanese…
Penghu Islands
Magong has many great cafes, but for a superb barista espresso made in a mad-professor's-laboratory interior, there's no beating local roaster Katate.
Penghu Islands
Teas, craft beers and a range of carefully chosen delicacies are served in an intimate one-room cafe with an arty vibe.
Taipei
This small bar has a wall of bottled craft beers, four on tap, and different offers Tuesdays to Fridays. You'll find a good range of Taiwan brews (Red…
Taipei
This long-running favourite in the Maokong area has old-style red-brick verandahs offering excellent views across a green valley. The food here (dishes NT…
Taipei
The taproom is packed with locals and expats, an industrial chic space filled with long benches and sporting a buzzing vibe. With 24 beers on tap – half…
Taipei
There are 24 craft beers on tap – and always a few local brands – in this famous Danish microbrewery. It's in an enviable location near Dihua St in a…
Taipei
Don't let the name put you off – it literally means Mother's Mouth Coffee – this little cafe is always heaving with locals. It's halfway along the bike…
Taipei
Speciality coffees, including local choices such as Alishan, on the 2nd floor of a Dihua St heritage building (originally the chemist AS Watson & Co)…
Taipei
This well-established joint (two decades and still going strong) seems dated with Taiwan's newfound love of craft-beer taprooms and cocktail speakeasies…
Hualien
This corner shop is famed for its 'steel pipe tea' (鋼管紅茶; gāngguǎn hóngchá; from NT$25), which is sent down to the serving counter via a system of tubes.
Taipei
If you're not into tea this is the perfect place for a decent coffee with a fantastic view. There's also cake, sandwiches and a range of drinks and you'll…
Xinyi
With 13 craft beers on tap, Landmark is great place to sample some tasty brews. Owned by Taihu, a local microbrewery and craft-beer importer, it's a very…
Central East Coast
In an achievement of wonderfully comic absurdity, CoffeeBox has somehow transplanted a railway carriage, rails and all to a field outside Dulan and turned…
Taitung
Passionate coffee enthusiast Rory Lee lovingly roasts his own beans, producing edgy espressos (from NT$70) and a range of single-origin brews (NT$150-200)…
Taipei
This almost 60-year-old teahouse sits like a witchy temple on a rocky cliff. Sip a coffee or share a pot of tea while gazing at the lake below. There's no…
Songshan
Tucked up an alleyway in Minsheng Community, Beer & Deer appears to have no deer but lots of beer – more than 80 craft varieties, mostly imported. It's a…
Taipei
Small on space but big on beer, this local microbrewery has 20 draught varieties. The fruity New England IPA goes down a treat. If you can't decide, go…
Taipei
A friendly little cafe that stocks fair-trade coffee and invests profits in the same coffee communities to build schools. Brews are single origin and well…
Taipei
With some of the city's oldest and finest teas, an elegant design and classes in tea appreciation, this is the place for the serious drinker, or for…
Xinyi
This bookish cafe with a piano, a sofa and green-shaded banker's lamps is open until 2am. The lattice windows, high roof and lazy vibe make it a lovely…
Tainan
Tucked away in the garden of the historic Tainan Public Hall (公會堂, Gōnghuì Táng), this elegant teahouse takes the form of a 1930s Japanese wooden…
Taipei
The pearl milk tea (NT$85) here is supposed to be the best in the city – pink, frothy and creamy with small, firm pearls and only lightly sweetened. There…
Songshan
Coffee, teas and cakes in the corner of a designery bookshop – you can't get more cultured than that. The matcha-ice-cream latte is a triple-whammy of…
Taipei
Serene and loaded with history, this cafe is located in a former wooden dormitory (with a large deck spilling on to a grassy lawn) built by the Japanese…
Taipei
This well-regarded, chilled cocktail bar focuses on rum blends and is famed for its Earl Grey recipes. There's no menu: simply tell the bartender what…
Taipei
This slick speakeasy-style bar is everything you'd expect it to be: hidden behind a secret door, heavy on the dark hardwood, dim lighting, and serving top…
Taipei
Full of boisterous energy, this narrow establishment has tables that spill onto the street for latecomers and smokers. Often host to live bands that…
Taipei
On Tap bills itself as 'Taipei's only real pub'. Big-screen sports, draught beer, hearty pub grub (pies, burgers and chips) and expats aplenty do indeed…
Chiayi
An artsy cafe in an old Japanese house with the original beams and rafters, and sliding doors. The small space is tastefully crammed with books and art…
Northern Taiwan
A good place to sink cheap beers, shooters and party pitchers, this rowdy dive has English-speaking staff and a host of games including foosball, pool and…
Taipei
This gem is set inside a remodelled traditional stone farmhouse dating from 1831. A 30-minute walk downhill from the gondola past Lioujisiang, this…
Matsu
Beigan's best coffee shop overlooks an attractive sweep of sandy beach from upstairs in the tourist office building in Banli.
Songshan
This cute little Japanese cafe charms on two levels: it has a little flower garden where you can sip your brew to the sound of birds, and it offers no…
