An ad for them just popped up on my FB. Their new location that opened a year ago is 1, 317, Section 1, Fuxing S Rd, 仁慈里, Da’an District, Taipei City, TW.
I remember going to the one in Tienmu decades ago.
Has anyone been to this one?
How is their food and desserts?
I wouldn’t say “back”, as they’ve been on a top floor of a building that has a McDonalds on the ground floor and a Ruth’s Chris on another floor at the Minsheng - Dunhua intersection this whole time. They’re awful. The burgers only come excessively well-done or you can get like three fried fish sticks for $250 with some tartar sauce that was absolutely straight from a 5 gallon tub from Sysco. The ice cream is mildly acceptable, I guess, but I would never plan to eat food there again.
good to know
I remember eating at the one in Shilin decades ago.
Remember thinking it was like carnie food, but worse.
There’s one in Songshan. Nice window seats looking over Minsheng Dunhua intersection. It is well run. Obviously the whole place is run from a dusty franchise instruction manual they got 40 years ago and has never changed, but if you like this old school sort of thing, it is quite good, in my opinion.
[Edit I see @nz beat me to it above, different takes, same place]
That’s the one I just mentioned. I haven’t been there in a few years, but even between the time I went there in maybe 2016 and the time I went there in maybe 2021(?) the quality had gone wwaaayyyy down. The ~ 2016 time was “I guess this is the price I pay for mildly bad American franchise food that has the chance to be awful in the US too” and the second time (when I ordered fish sticks), I was thinking about how I could buy half a bag of frozen fish sticks from Costco for the same price and prepare them in a much more tasty way…
I had breaky there, standard issue Taiwan toast bread, scrambled eggs, grilled tomato, something else unmemorable, coffee. Another time I had oatmeal porridge, with some toast and jam on the side. It’s not avant garde stuff, but honest, I sort of respect them for holding out and keeping at it. Are there places like this left in San Francisco does anyone know?
I thought they had gone too. They used to be next door to that building on ground floor and when I did not see them I thought they had gone for good.