news: 2018 OVERDUE TAIPEI RESTAURANT ROUNDUP

A TAIPEI RESTAURANT ROUND UP is long overdue. I have a lot of drafts of blog posts in my folder and this one had the following sentence- "Every summer when I come back from LA, I notice a few changes, but this summer was the first one where a lot of people had one restaurant on their lips- "have you been to Longtail yet?""

Now it's April 2018 and I've already done a 10 places you should try next that I should republish here and Taipei has moved onto another new set of restaurants. Michelin finally came to Taipei and everyone is abuzz about the bib gourmand list.

The list is going to be long because I have a draft of 2016 that was never published to add in- so forgive me if some of these places look not-so-new to you, it's new since my last round up. Please let me know if you have a restaurant that has opened or closed and I'll add it! Let's get to business.

2018 CLOSINGS

• Commune A7 (closed to make way for construction for hotels)
• Emack and Bolios (ice cream)
• Origines (closed at end of March 2018)
• Le Mout (will close at end of 2018)
• La Cocotte (closed after 9 years, the same month it was awarded 1 Michelin star)
• Juanitas (closed again)

2017 OPENINGS (aka how behind I am in posts)

• Longtail 
• Liquid Bread Co (sandwiches)
• Tamed Fox (brunch and desserts)
• Ichiran Ramen
• NKU (modern)
• Coffee DPT (chocolate chip cookies and coffee)
• Commune A7
• Honolulu Cafe (from Hong Kong)
• Gusto Market (italian deli and shop)
• Steam Pot
• Buttermilk at Amba 
• Grace
• GDS Play cafe (DaAn)
• Tastelab by Regent Hotel 
• Banco (pizza and pasta)
• Maple Tree House Korean BBQ
• District One Taipei (modern vietnamese, oxtail and lobster pho)
• Amaronis (NY Italian American)
• Pokeholic (Poke bowls)
• Jumbo Seafood (Singaporean)
• Red Dot (Singaporean/Indonesian)
• Gastrojoy (private kitchen)
• Ura muteki (deep fried wagyu)
• Kamekona Hawaii (teppanyaki)
• Mecato (empanadas at Maji Square)
• Quantum Tacos (Maji Square)
• Ice Mountain (shaved ice)
• Gusto Pizza
• Pie Guy 
• Meat Love (korean bbq)
• Wok
• Juanitas (mexican)
• Lady M (crepe cake)
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2017 CLOSINGS

• Achoi 
• STAY (closed 9/30/2017) 
• Sweet Tea (also closed 9/2017)
• Le Kief
• Savor Private Kitchen
• Grandma Nitti's
• Flavors Meatball 
• Bite2Eat 
• Juanitas
• Lobster Bar
• Dairy Queen 

2016 NOTABLE OPENINGS (even longer lists of places that I am due to post) 

• Sugar Pea 
• Jamie's Italian
• Mitsukoshi A11 foodcourt reopening 
• Nur
• Chou Chou 
• Terroir 
• Street Churros
• Plus Pizza 
• Rou
• Cafe by Juicy Diary 
• Machin
• Le kief 
• Line Cafe
• Domani (Italian)
• Rakujin (wagyu yakiniku)
• Antipodean
• Revel Eatery
• Baba Kevins (american bbq)
• Twinkeyz Tacos
• Sarabeths
• Ramen Nagi
• Plants Eatery (vegan)
• Green Room (vegan thai)
• Mortons Steakhouse
• Cheogajip (korean fried chicken)

2016 CLOSINGS 

• Cozi Burger 
• Lobster Bar 
• Amigos (in March?) 
• Dan Ryans 
• Burger Fix 
• Voodoo doughnuts