Taipei does not have many bars that are open during the day time until 5 or 6 p.m. or later. Some restaurants and shops will serve drinks but they are not true bars.
Taipei is working city and not many people on vacation or holiday but few people are and want to have a drink with friends in the daytime. Where can they go?
Carnegie’s: I recently realized that Carnegie’s is open in the daytime and it’s happy hour all day until 9 p.m. they have music sports on TV and plenty of options on beers. Plus food is available.
Lots of the western style restaurants with a bar like Chili’s, Gordon Birsch, Friday’s are open, can those be under your category? Price might be a tid bit high, but if you need that drink and a TV with sports on at mid day, might be your only choice.
If you want a craft beer, not many places are open, but I do know that Zhang Men over at Yong Kang Street opens a bit after noon since it’s in a very touristy area.
Another option is Take Out over by Tong Hua Street night market. They primarily are a burger shop, but also serve some craft beer and have a ginormous TV for you to watch and chill.
There’s some daytime Filipino clubs in Zhongli. No windows so they give it a nighttime feel in the middle of the afternoon. I’ve only been a couple of times, but it was always a fun crowd.
This one has happy hour like 3-5pm at all its outlets over Taiwan, where beer is 2-for-1. And they remind you around 4:55pm that the deal is almost closing and you can still order another around of 2-for-1 to then drink there into the 5 o’clock hour.
Sometimes have seasonal beers. Once tried a tea-flavored beer. Was not too bad.
I have the afternoon free in the Xinyi/Dunhua area. Any recommendations where I don’t have to go walk in the middle of a business or shopping district?
Really?
I used to have a roomie who was Thai Chinese, and she had a boyfriend and a whole crew, they were well Thai inside, but they looked as Taike as you or me.