Western restaurants in Taiwan
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Bongos
Have a hankering for poutine (French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy) and pasta, or perhaps some salad served with a secondhand science-fiction paperback? In addition to serving good Western-style lunches and dinners, including the aforementioned Canadian favourite, Bongos has a comfortable reading area, outdoor seating and a huge collection of used books for sale.
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Grandma Nitti's
A mainstay of Taipei's Western community, Nitti's serves comfort food such as waffles, burgers, Philly-cheese steaks, Mexican dishes and family-sized pastas. Best bang for your buck are Nitti's all-day breakfasts, served from 9am to 5pm. At NT$180 for the usual eggs, pancakes, bacon, ham, hash browns and bottomless tea or coffee, it's the best deal in the house. There's a comfy streetside terrace and the windowed space upstairs is a great place to mull over newspapers. Animal lovers take note: Rainbow (aka Grandma Nitti) is a mainstay in Taiwan's animal-protection community, so if you wind up adopting a pet and want to know how to go about bringing it back home with you…
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G'day Café
Though no longer the popular expat hangout of yore, the G'day is still serving exactly the same Western fare to a primarily local clientele. Come here for burgers, tacos and Western-style brunches served all day with bottomless cups of coffee. Home-away-from-home remnants – an English bulletin board advertising jobs, a few dozen old paperbacks for trade – still exist.
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KGB
Opened in 2007 by a gregarious Kiwi named Antony, KGB (short for Kiwi Gourmet Burger) has developed quite the cult following among locals and expats alike, both because of its chilled-out atmosphere and its amazing burgers (including a number of vegetarian selections that are out of this world). Check the board for daily specials. Located on a tiny alley just off Shida Rd about three blocks north of the MRT station, KGB is a difficult first find but worth the search.
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Escape 41
Did you catch that address? This place is on the mountain, or, rather, just down the slopes of it, a few metres above the blue sea. With good attention to food, Escape is worth the effort to get here. Pizza is the best dish but there are good vegie options, and a broad cocktail and wine selection if you want to hang out in the evenings on a hot summer night after sunset.
Taxis from Sizihwan station will cost about NT$150 to NT$200. Escape is the last house down a winding road through the little fishing village.
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Country Mother
Echoing its name nicely, Country Mother serves some of the best Western breakfasts and sandwiches in Taiwan in a cosy venue up from the harbour. Best of all, it's open very early for cyclists looking to fill up on something wholesome and hearty before the day's ride. Country Mother is just up from Dou Sang; head left when the road splits.
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Café Onion
Getting a good steak dinner for under a grand in Taipei is difficult; there are plenty of bargain steakhouses, but most of these places tend to deal in chunks of cheap meat cooked to an unappetising grey on iron plates before being slathered with peppery gravy and served with a raw egg. Café Onion is a welcome relief from the Taiwan beefsteak norm, serving flame-broiled steaks from Australia, New Zealand and the US – well cooked and well priced. In addition to excellent appetisers (full meals come with soup, salad, appetisers, beverage and dessert, all of which are quite good), Café Onion is one of the few places in town where you can get roast beef (NT$1350 for a full…
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Bagel-Bagel 3
One branch of a long-running Kaohsiung restaurant chain serving a fix of Western staples such as bagel sandwiches, pasta, pizza and soups. There's a useful information board on the premises.
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