Every spot we'd send you to.

Cocktail-and-food pairings at the top of the city's range. Expensive, worth it.

Asia's 50 Best alum, with 凱哥 behind the bar. Classic cocktails at top form. No reservations — get in line early.

Tatler Best Design 2026. East-meets-West architecture, designed to invite you in to unwind.

Bustling destination with a cool, understated ambiance serving innovative draft cocktails.

Asia's 50 Best #57, 2025. Minimalist, cutting-edge aesthetic with a scientist-bartender behind every drink.

A basement bar on Asia's 50 Best two years running. Founder Pei Liu runs it like a lab — tea-forward, flavour-first cocktails, with a Sunday-only tasting menu of drinks and small plates.

"Extending from the dining table into the night" — Tatler Best Bars Taiwan 2025.

Easygoing, late-night destination serving global meals, bar bites & unique cocktails.

No-menu whisky bar — vinyl, 200+ rare bottles, slow drinking. Tatler 2025+2026.

A Japanese-style cigar and whisky bar hidden down a Linsen North Road 條通 lane — marble counter, low light, cocktails and cigars until 3 or 4am. Closed Sundays and Mondays; reservations and full buy-outs are the house norm.

Cocktail and wine bar that builds drinks around you — tell them your preferences, your feelings, your life story, and they go from there.

Tatler Best Innovation + Best New Bar 2025. Aesthetic wine-dining with a fermented, futuristic feel.

Award-winning bartender Alan's place. One of the few Taipei gastropubs where the food keeps up with the drinks.

Art, warmth, and creative cocktails with a curated sake list — Tatler 2025+2026.

Down-to-earth Japanese restaurant offering meat skewers, seafood & bowls, plus beer & spirits.

Trendy hangout offering udon noodles & skewers, plus all-you-can-drink cocktails & a darts machine.

Pioneer Taipei speakeasy. Hidden behind a coffee shop; ring the buzzer.

Fine dining concepts combined with the drinks program — Tatler 2025.

Taipei's original fetish bar — a dim Kaifeng Street basement off Ximending where leather, uniform, and rope themes rotate night to night, the cocktails are better than they need to be, and a notorious darkroom waits behind the bar.

Taiwan's highest-ranked club — DJ Mag Top 100, #23 in the world. Big-room EDM on the 7th floor of ATT 4 FUN: a Funktion-One rig, an 800-capacity floor, and an open-air terrace facing Taipei 101. One cover buys the open bar till close.

Easygoing night spot with themed nooks, serving curries, fried snacks & waffles plus coffee & booze.

A talking bar tucked down a Linsen North Road lane — karaoke, a drink, and a host who sits and chats. It's the 條通 nightlife Light the Night made famous, still running: sing, dance, settle in. Open Monday to Saturday, 7pm till 1am.

Japanese-style KTV bar with simple drinks. Open for 50 continuous hours — 9pm Fridays through 11pm Sundays.

Korean-styled luxury KTV above Nanjing Fuxing — five themed suites (bath-tub, LED night-view, 6D, modern, boutique) that combine dinner, cocktails and karaoke in one private room.

Asia's 50 Best alum. Theatrical service, deep classics list, no shortcuts.

"Oriental elegance and the charm of pine trees" — Tatler Best Bars Taiwan 2025+2026.

Showa-era nostalgia crossed with Taiwan history; inventive highballs — Tatler 2025+2026.