I was just wondering if anyone has tried any good German/European food in Taipei. i hoping to find a good restaurant for my boyfriend’s birthday. If anyone knows of a good one let me know! Thanks…*day 
We go to this nice German restaurant at least once a week. It’s near Nanjing E. Road and Linsen N. Road. I think the actual address is on Linsen N. Rd. Lane 119 (you’ll see a Parking sign) down the lane on the corner. There is like a Family Mart and another convenient store there. Call and get the actual address.
Zum Fass
2531-3815
They speak English and German as well. I’ve seen them advertise in the China Post and This Month in Taiwan guide.
You might like Tapas at Heping W. Rd., Section 1, No. 50
2303-0999.
It’s under German management and has reasonable prices for both food and wine. Downstairs is more fun than upstairs. Best of all, the kitchen is open late.
There’s a great place on the west side of Wenzhou Street, between Heping and Xinhai Rds, called the Schwarzwald Cafe. It’s great, you can sit on their patio, which is quite nice ( when the weather isn’t so frigging 
cold, and best of all, it’s very reasonable. I highly recommend it. It might not be snazzy enough for a romantic birthday, but sooner or later, you’ll want to check it out. Wish J a happy birthday from me.
That place has terrible service. They serve potato flakes as their ‘mashed’ potatos, the sausages are deep fried and vile. I wouldn’t recommend it to my dog.
Wow! Sounds like you had a terrible experience! Now, I haven’t eaten there since November, but I remember the service as being unmemorable. That is to say, it’s probably as bad as most Taiwan establishments. See this post to know what I’m talking about. 
I usually eat late, so I tend to not have to compete with so many other diners for service, so you’re probably right. I’ve never had the mashed potatoes, only the fried potatoes with onions, which were great. I also remember liking the very German soup they gave me, and also the bread, which was homemade. I’ve been saving the wurst for last (groan): Mine was pretty good! It wasn’t deep fried, so maybe they were experimenting with the “Ximending Nouveau” 
style the day you visited. I also forget what kind of wurst I had, but I remember they had a large variety. I’m going to have to go back again just to see if they maybe drugged me the first time…
They also have a branch on Yongkang street, but I’ve never been there - anyone know what it’s like?
The place that crbkstiles mentions, Zum Fass, is pretty nice, although I haven’t been there in a couple of years. Time to go back again, I think. German food fills me up like no other. As Jerry Maguire might say, “It completes me”. 
The one off Yongkang St is a cafe rather than a restaurant, I think. It has good-looking homemade cakes that I’ve never tried and the most seriously kick-arse dark German rye bread I’ve had for years.
I trail all the way up there for that bread alone.
I’ve eaten a full meal in the one off Yongkang St. I can’t remember what I had, but it was good.
I wouldn’t know about German food because I’m not a big ‘weiner’ person, but I would highly recommend a place called, Chalet Swiss.
It’s been in business for something like 20 years, and there’s a reason for that. Although it’s pretty expensive, they have the yummiest fondues (chocolate, cheese, etc), lemon and chocolate souffles, wine selection, steak tartar and smoked salmon appetizers, entrees such as filet mignons and seafood. It’s quite a treat, Day, so if you decide to go there, put aside a few thousand so you won’t have to scrimp on what you order.
Also, if you want souffle for dessert, you’ll have to order it at the beginning of your meal.
The place actually reminds me of those old-fashioned, high-class Continental steak houses they had years ago in North America, but with fondues on the menu. You know? Dark woods and leather booths…
The address: 47 Nanjing E. Rd, Section 4
phone: 2715-2051
thank god for the handy business card file…
ps>how’s the kitty?
I went to the Schwarzwald yesterday near Yongkang St. I was pretty impressed. With the exception of the potato salad (I think it was instant potatoes with a bit of paprika. No wonder they kept trying to steer me to sauerkraut), everything was very good. I can’t vouch too much for the authenticity (it’s been ten years since I’ve had the real thing), but I felt it was well worth the money (about a thousand for a dinner for two, including beer and everything else). The cake was outstanding and would be well worth a trip by itself.
I don’t know the address, but if you head south on Yongkang from Xinyi(just west of Da-an park) it’s down one of the alleys on the right a little ways down the street. you turn near the “ice” place I believe).
FWIW, the laoban is married to a German.
The foreign laoban at Schwarzwald is never there-he’s got his own fulltime job and probably has little to do with day-to-day operations at the place. The prices aren’t bad, though.
I would recommend Zum Fass (if you can stand the This Month in Taiwan vibe) or the Swiss Chalet instead.
[quote=“Flipper”]Schwarzwald right near ice monster in the yongkang jie area.
it looks like a little coffee shop, but this place has a really extensive menu. more extensive that i’ve seen at good german restaurants in the us. loads of your usual german fare including goulash, sausages, and buttered noodles to pigs feet and stock fondues. not sure how authentic the stock fondues are. might just be variations of chinese hot pots for all i know. every item has a german and english translation.
i tried the goulash with fried poatoes and also tacked on a side order of bratwurst and sauerkraut. the goulash was pretty good. not the authentic soupy hungarian style, but more like stewed meat with a little sauce. the fried potatoes were the highlight of the meal. pan fried until the edges were brown and cripsy with onions which were really sweet and carmalized and some bacon to add flavor. best potatoes i’ve had in a LONG time. the bratwurst was decent and i was really glad that they didn’t “taiwanese” it by making it sweet or something. went great with a dollap of mustard. the sauerkraut was ok. i prefer my sauerkraut a little less mellow, but that’s a personal taste thing. everything was washed down by a nice weissbier. 
overall, the thing i liked most about this place is that NOTHING tasted taiwanese. all the spices were very authentic.
i need to go back to try the chocolate fondue they have. taiwanese fruits in a chocolate fondue sound really really tasty.
prices were moderate. set meals(which include a small salad, soup, coffee, and nt$50 towards a desert cake) were around nt$250-300. some of the specials, like the pigs feet and fondues were more.
location is 9 lane 6, yong kang jie. the intersection of lane 6 and yongkang jie proper is where the ice monster is. the restaurant is just a little to the west of that. phone is (02) 2392-2447. open from 11:30am to 10:00pm.
i assume that the place MUST have been started by a german. everything was way too german(including all the german on the menu) for it not to be. i don’t think i make that great of a restaurant reviewer since i’m not particularly critical, so if someone else could try this place and post their findings, i’d appreciate it. [/quote]
Never tasted the food there, but I make my pilgrimage every couple of weeks to buy their bread. Unfortunately, they only seem to have one sort that’s edible (I’ve never seen dark bread there), the rest seems close to the usual stuff. But their cakes are delicious. I bought a real “Rhabarberkuchen” last time, perfect for my Sunday afternoon tea hour 
I mean to try the food some time, but I wanted to wait until I’m really, really homesick (hasn’t happened yet, luckily ).
Iris
because I’m not a big ‘weiner’ person
It’s “Wiener”, my dear, not “Weiner” … :!:
But we not only like to eat people from Vienna (German: Wien) but also from Frankfurt (Frankfurter Wuerstchen) …
‘Zum Fass’ is IMHO Swiss and it … well … sucks. Don’t like the place nor did I think the food was authentic German/Swiss, rather a local attempt to present it as such.
Have heard good things about the ‘Schwarzwald Cafe’ and the ‘Backerei Wendel’ in Tianmu (Zhongshan N. Rd.) though I haven’t tried them yet.
Oh, and there is the ‘Haxen Gaststaette’ which claims to be a German restaurant on Fuxing N. Rd. (north of the MRT station @ Nanjing E. Rd., same side) though again I haven’t been there yet.
Have been to the Schwartzwald and Zum Adler (Xinsheng S Rd Sec 1 #142) and have to say both were quite good. Actually, the desserts were very good at the former and when I was at Zum Adler last night, the breads were quite good, i.e. the cheese buns and pretzels.
There is only so much that you can do right or wrong with German food though so you get what you get. It does not have the range to mess things up that Japanese, Thai, Chinese, Indian, French and Italian do. German food is basically home cooking. Nothing too fancy.
Does anyone know of a good German restaurant in Taipei? If so, an address would be much appreciated.
Ziggy
Baeckerei Wendel in Tianmou, Zum Fass down in the Lin Shen Getho, Gasthof zum Adler on Shin Shen between jen Ai and Shin Yi. You should be able to find the addresses in the Taiwan Fun Magazine or online, www.taiwanfun.com
Rgds
Zum Fass sucks IMO and AFAIK it’s Swiss, not German. Zum Adler is good (Xinsheng Rd., just north of Da’an Park) and so is Oma Ursel’s Cafe (formerly Schwarzwald Cafe) in one of the small lanes between Lishuei and Yongkang Jie, close to Xinyi Rd.
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