I must be missing out on some beautiful marina, or anything that resembles a cafe on the rivers near Taipei city? Or is this city just that underdeveloped and doesn’t care about eating at a place with a nice view?
So if you cant suggest a place to eat by the water… how about a place with another kind of nice view, please post.
There is another place… I been there too Beitou ( spelling?) but after going there twice… its dull. is there anywhere else?
I’m partial to the views from the teahouses of Jiufen. But perhaps that town’s farther away than you’d like.
pitan has a few (overpriced) restaurants overlooking the river. NOt too bad tho.
I’ve biked up and down most of the riverside paths and don’t recall anywhere nice to sit for a view, apart from a couple of very small little cafes (i.e. trucks with espresso machines and folding chairs: there’s one of those at Dadaocheng).
There’s Bali, although that’s basically Danshui. There’s also a long stretch of restaurants in Sanzhi: WaLiLei is the best of those that I’ve been to, although there’s also a newer breakfast place that I’ve heard good things about. (Can’t remember the name, but it’s somewhere in this forum.)
I’ve been to a few restaurants up on Yangmingshan, but they usually seem determined to make no use whatsoever of the view.
Up the Maokong Gondola? Nice places up there.
Aren’t there some nice restaurants, one German, in a campus near Guandu MRT station?
I guess Taiwan is a bit crap when it comes to patios and making use of views. I suspect this derives partly from how few months there are when sitting outside is actually pleasant, or perhaps from how stinky the rivers were until quite recently (and you still don’t want to look too closely).
The restaurant on the top floor of Hotel Riverview in Ximending or the revolving restaurant atop the Beitou garbage incinerator.
bitan as Tommy said is quite lovely. I usually just grab a coffee and sit down by the river. The restaurant area is nice but the food isn’t. There are a few nice patios along the river paths but it’s nature that prevents more, that is flooding, rather than the public wish for nice places. On the right bank south of guandu i saw a nice patio on a grassy terrace and on the left bank north of bit an is a nice park with an outdoor seating area though just a coffee truck for drinks.
There are a few nice patios on the way to wulai.
Many nice cafes and restaurants and patios along the NE coast.
There are quite a few of restaurants with an ocean view at Jinshan and Yehliu as well as many in Sanzhi.
The Chinese restaurant with the dim sum menu at the Grand Hotel has a sweeping view of most of Taipei city, including the river, though not waterfront obviously. Most seats aren’t close enough to the windows to appreciate how good the view is, so advance reservations needed. Not cheap, but not particularly pricier than other formal dim sum joints around Taipei.
I’ve never gone, but supposedly there’s a rotating restaurant at the top of that…incinerator of all things…in Shihlin I guess–the one you see for miles if you’re driving toward Bitan/Danshui. If it sounds like I’m pulling your leg, I might be, but this is what I’ve heard from locals anyway.
There are a few hole-in-the-walls overlooking the stream that follows the main road through Shenkeng (106) serving standard local grub. Scenery not as pictaresque as Wulai, but not quite as far. Not worth a trip on it’s own really unless you have another reason to be travelling that direction. Wouldn’t mind finding other/better spots in that general area as it’s kinda near my place.
I wish someone would open one of these here. I suppose Mucha Man is right about the flooding, though.
Taipei 101 has “observatory restaurants” on its 35th, 85th and 86th floors, though I suspect for the airplane view you’ll get airplane food. 
Not so, I ate a couple of times at the Chinese restaurant on the 85th floor, the food is great, even brought my family and my wife’s family together there when my family came for the wedding. If you book a window table you will have a very nice view but it is a bit closer to airplane view then patio view 
I strongly recommend those restaurants up there if the others are as good as the Chinese one.
Btw, each floor has two restaurants, I think the other ones are a Japanese, a French and something else but don’t quote me on that, not sure about the food in those since I haven’t tried them.
Not so, I ate a couple of times at the Chinese restaurant on the 85th floor, the food is great, even brought my family and my wife’s family together there when my family came for the wedding. If you book a window table you will have a very nice view but it is a bit closer to airplane view then patio view
I strongly recommend those restaurants up there if the others are as good as the Chinese one.
Btw, each floor has two restaurants, I think the other ones are a Japanese, a French and something else but don’t quote me on that, not sure about the food in those since I haven’t tried them.[/quote]
The one I ate at a few years ago was a Diamond Tony’s. The menu was limited compared to its other locations, with prices about 50% higher to cover the rent.
In Taipei City proper, there isn’t much. If there was something, we’d all know about it by now…I guess.
Sanzhi is killer. There’s a whole stretch of places on Dan Jin Road (Highway 2), right on the ocean. One in particular is called Oia.
There’s a cool place on Zhou Mei St. in Shilin, right on the river, run by a young couple. They rent fishing poles, too.
Before the Flora Expo destroyed it, Dajia Riverside Park had a mini-night market on weekends. Not sure what the configuration is over there this summer.
Xindian/Bitan is good.
Yeah, not much riverside eating in taipei but lots of mountainside places so maybe adjust accordingly. Some really nice places up in Maokong with great food and beautiful views.
Just past Shenkeng at that intersection with all the convenience stores is a restaurant with a deck. Really nice walk along the river starting there too that leads to Shifen.
If you are riding a bike, just past Treasure Hill there is a cafe overlooking the river.
What are some good elegant restaurants near da’an that are great for dates? Something really romantic would be preferable.
Or go into the Treasure Hill “slum” for this quaint little cafe that overlooks Fuhe bridge.
[quote=“Mucha Man”]Yeah, not much riverside eating in taipei but lots of mountainside places so maybe adjust accordingly. Some really nice places up in Maokong with great food and beautiful views.
Just past Shenkeng at that intersection with all the convenience stores is a restaurant with a deck. Really nice walk along the river starting there too that leads to Shifen.
If you are riding a bike, just past Treasure Hill there is a cafe overlooking the river.[/quote]
Yes, actually me and my girl did that this weekend… took the gondola ride up to the top, and had some tea and toast. Allthough, the tea was probably 80% chemicals (peach). The views is quite nice, and cool weather ( slight rain.)… but I still long for a nice cafe by the water.
What do you man by that?
What do you man by that?[/quote]
It tasted like pure chemicals… wayyyy tooo much peach flavor that is humanly possible for a cup of tea. Plus it shouldn’t just naturally be ORANGE colored, just because its peach. 
What do you man by that?[/quote]
It tasted like pure chemicals… wayyyy tooo much peach flavor that is humanly possible for a cup of tea. Plus it shouldn’t just naturally be ORANGE colored, just because its peach. [/quote]
I still don’t get this. I have been to Maokong teahouses hundreds of times and never once seen flavored teas. You might possibly have gotten a Tieguanyin which yes can very well be naturally redish in color and have a strong fruit flavor. Taiwan has some of the world’s best teas, especially Oolong and Oriental Beauty and they have very powerful flavors, incluing fruit and honey. Many are grown compltely organically. Oriental Beauty has to be.