Award-winning bartender Alan's place. One of the few Taipei gastropubs where the food keeps up with the drinks.
A gastropub in the proper sense — Alan, the award-winning bartender behind the cocktail program, refused to let the kitchen run as a sidekick to the bar, and you can taste the result on both sides of the pass. The food is doing real work; the drinks aren't padding the bill.
That alignment is rarer in Taiwan than it should be, which is why FUGU has become a default recommendation for the night when you want to actually eat between rounds rather than survive on a single dish of edamame. Come early for the food, stay late for the bar, and don't be surprised if the dish that lingers in memory ends up being something off the small plates rather than the cocktail.
FUGU Japanese Gastropub
Award-winning bartender Alan's place. One of the few Taipei gastropubs where the food keeps up with the drinks.
A gastropub in the proper sense — Alan, the award-winning bartender behind the cocktail program, refused to let the kitchen run as a sidekick to the bar, and you can taste the result on both sides of the pass. The food is doing real work; the drinks aren't padding the bill.
That alignment is rarer in Taiwan than it should be, which is why FUGU has become a default recommendation for the night when you want to actually eat between rounds rather than survive on a single dish of edamame. Come early for the food, stay late for the bar, and don't be surprised if the dish that lingers in memory ends up being something off the small plates rather than the cocktail.
