A compact British craft beer bar tucked in the lanes off Tonghua night market, run by an English owner pouring hop-forward imports from home. Three pinball machines, indie rock on the walls, and a tap list that treats every new keg as an event.
ParkLife Plus+ sits in the quiet lanes just off Tonghua Street, a short walk from Liuzhangli MRT and a stone's throw from the food stalls of the Tonghua/Linjiang night market. It is small, easy to miss, and unmistakably the work of someone who cares more about the beer in the glass than the frontage. The English signage bills it plainly as a British craft beer bar, and that is the honest description: a compact room wrapped in American pop-culture bric-a-brac, indie rock on the walls, and a bar counter that treats imported keg beer as the main event.
The room
Space here is tight, and the bar leans into it rather than apologising for it. The standout feature is a trio of American-style pinball machines — a genuinely rare sight in a Taipei bar — that dominate the floor and give the place an arcade-like buzz on a busy night. Between the games, the memorabilia, and the music, the room reads less like a quiet tasting den and more like a clubhouse: a place to talk, play, and drink your way through whatever has just gone on tap. Reviewers consistently land it around a 4.7 on Google, and the recurring note is the same one — friendly, unpretentious, good for a beer and a conversation.
The beer
The tap list is import-led and British-anchored. The bar has served as a Taiwan launch venue for UK breweries — Vocation Brewery, out of the north of England, made its Taiwan draft debut here — and the house voice online skews toward modern, hop-forward styles, the kind of heavily-hopped pale ales and IPAs that reward a curious drinker. Kegs rotate, and each new one tends to get its own announcement rather than disappearing into a static tap wall, so the specific pours change week to week. Treat any single tap list as a snapshot; the through-line is a small, frequently-refreshed selection of European and British craft, not a fixed menu. (For what's actually pouring tonight, their Instagram is the reliable source.)
The people and the music
The owner, Mark, is English, from a region close enough to some of the breweries he pours that he introduces their beers as hometown stuff — which tells you most of what you need to know about how the tap list gets chosen. Around him, ParkLife Plus+ has become a genuine node in Taipei's indie and rock scene. It has hosted send-off nights tied to touring UK bands, served as a filming backdrop for local rock acts, and become the kind of place where bands stop in for "just the one" before heading off to festivals like Megaport. That music-first, community-hub character is as much the draw as the beer.
A note on the name
The "Plus+" in the name points back to an earlier ParkLife — ParkLife Drinking Room, an English indie-music craft beer bar on Civic Boulevard in Zhongshan, remembered in Taiwanese coverage as an "adult playground" complete with an indoor skate area, billiards, and games. The two share a name, a British-indie sensibility, and overlapping people and press, and ParkLife Plus+ reads as the smaller, more beer-focused successor to that idea — the skate ramp swapped for pinball. The exact ownership link between the two isn't spelled out in public sources, so take the lineage as strongly implied rather than confirmed.
Open evenings, Tuesday through Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday — though a bar this small runs on the owner's rhythm, so it's worth a quick check before a special trip.
ParkLife Plus+ Craft Beer Bar
A compact British craft beer bar tucked in the lanes off Tonghua night market, run by an English owner pouring hop-forward imports from home. Three pinball machines, indie rock on the walls, and a tap list that treats every new keg as an event.
ParkLife Plus+ sits in the quiet lanes just off Tonghua Street, a short walk from Liuzhangli MRT and a stone's throw from the food stalls of the Tonghua/Linjiang night market. It is small, easy to miss, and unmistakably the work of someone who cares more about the beer in the glass than the frontage. The English signage bills it plainly as a British craft beer bar, and that is the honest description: a compact room wrapped in American pop-culture bric-a-brac, indie rock on the walls, and a bar counter that treats imported keg beer as the main event.
The room
Space here is tight, and the bar leans into it rather than apologising for it. The standout feature is a trio of American-style pinball machines — a genuinely rare sight in a Taipei bar — that dominate the floor and give the place an arcade-like buzz on a busy night. Between the games, the memorabilia, and the music, the room reads less like a quiet tasting den and more like a clubhouse: a place to talk, play, and drink your way through whatever has just gone on tap. Reviewers consistently land it around a 4.7 on Google, and the recurring note is the same one — friendly, unpretentious, good for a beer and a conversation.
The beer
The tap list is import-led and British-anchored. The bar has served as a Taiwan launch venue for UK breweries — Vocation Brewery, out of the north of England, made its Taiwan draft debut here — and the house voice online skews toward modern, hop-forward styles, the kind of heavily-hopped pale ales and IPAs that reward a curious drinker. Kegs rotate, and each new one tends to get its own announcement rather than disappearing into a static tap wall, so the specific pours change week to week. Treat any single tap list as a snapshot; the through-line is a small, frequently-refreshed selection of European and British craft, not a fixed menu. (For what's actually pouring tonight, their Instagram is the reliable source.)
The people and the music
The owner, Mark, is English, from a region close enough to some of the breweries he pours that he introduces their beers as hometown stuff — which tells you most of what you need to know about how the tap list gets chosen. Around him, ParkLife Plus+ has become a genuine node in Taipei's indie and rock scene. It has hosted send-off nights tied to touring UK bands, served as a filming backdrop for local rock acts, and become the kind of place where bands stop in for "just the one" before heading off to festivals like Megaport. That music-first, community-hub character is as much the draw as the beer.
A note on the name
The "Plus+" in the name points back to an earlier ParkLife — ParkLife Drinking Room, an English indie-music craft beer bar on Civic Boulevard in Zhongshan, remembered in Taiwanese coverage as an "adult playground" complete with an indoor skate area, billiards, and games. The two share a name, a British-indie sensibility, and overlapping people and press, and ParkLife Plus+ reads as the smaller, more beer-focused successor to that idea — the skate ramp swapped for pinball. The exact ownership link between the two isn't spelled out in public sources, so take the lineage as strongly implied rather than confirmed.
Open evenings, Tuesday through Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday — though a bar this small runs on the owner's rhythm, so it's worth a quick check before a special trip.
