Saw this pizzeria today. Any experiences?
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大塊披薩
This Pizzaria is closed 
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I’m going to recommend three places door to door:
Dave&Jess home kitchen x market place
Good pasta
Best Pizza
The name is probably an exaggeration, but it is good pizza
閑恬Mydeli手作美味坊
I like their cakes
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Edited my post.
I’m just sad I liked that place a lot
That was already their second location. Maybe there will be a third.
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Oh good, they’re still open! The past couple of times I’ve walked by they were closed and I was getting worried.
He was in Taitung for a couple long weekends.
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Not a restaurant, but I like their donuts.
美華珍西點麵包
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We ordered from Dave & Jess quite a bit during the work from home phase: quite fond of the desserts. Pasta good too. I dimly and perhaps incorrectly recall regretting the order of a burger, but that was probably due to delivery rather than the quality of the food itself.
EDIT:
Wow, that’s a surprise! I don’t think I’ve ever bought anything there, despite walking by it countless times; it just looks so generic non-taste (or pork-floss-taste) Taiwanese bakery. Will have to give it a try.
I have a vague memory of not liking their burger too.
And you are mostly right. But the donuts are good, and giant.
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I had lunch at
時光樹影-Memory 河岸景觀餐廳
02 2622 2266
today. The food was pretty good. We sat outside with full view of the river. Had to move under the canvas when a shower arrived, but overall a good experience. Spent NT$1,500 for two.
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Thanks for the suggestion - I’ve looked at the menu a couple of times, but haven’t yet tried it.
I’m still bitter about Jovial closing. It was “just” a decent brunch place, but it had a lovely second floor with giant windows overlooking the river - a real nice air-conditioned place to sit for a couple of hours with a view, in an area with surprisingly few places to do such a thing. I walked by it forever thinking there was only the first floor, never trying it, until finally cluing in to the second floor. And then a month later it shut down. Google still says “temporarily closed”, so I hold on to hope, but it’s been that way for months now.
JOVIAL 磐食坊
02 2625 0265
https://maps.app.goo.gl/KZ9U4Cyxt3jUjg1H9?g_st=ic
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Another place that’s “temporarily” closed. If I’m remembering correctly, I dug into other links and discovered they’re moving elsewhere, but a) my Chinese is crap, and b) oh, what was I going to say, right, my memory is crap too.
I lost the count of the places that closed before I got the chance to go.
I’m curious, did you tried the donuts, @lostinasia?
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Not yet. I’ve been doing better at my “one decadent junk food treat per week” limit lately, and, well, damned if I’m using it on Taiwanese donuts. That quota is for Ekselence or Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.
Maybe one day if I’m coming back from a two-hour waterfront walk. But the weather’s been good enough that I’ve mostly been cycling instead of walking lately. Yay! But also, oh no, apparently that means drought.
I didn’t know that small lake at the top of Balaka could turn into a puddle.
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It looks like we’re going to have some rain this week.
Those donuts are the closest I’ve found in Taiwan to the donuts that bakeries do in Spain. Which are just fried dough and sugar. We don’t like to eat all the colours in the rainbow with our bakery, so I don’t really like that style. Here in Taiwan, the quality of the dough and specially the cooking oil make some terrible doughnuts.
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I haven’t tried it yet but I found this just opened in danhai new town. I’m going to give it a try as soon as I can.
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Ah … in that corner of town I almost never visit in the hot months, since it’s weirdly far from everywhere else and I get around by walking. But @Marco would have better ideas than I do about how to get there by bus. (I think he’s said there are annoyingly few buses that head out there?)
Definitely worth trying, however - thanks for introducing it. Their list of products is a surprising-to-me mix of savoury and sweet:
- Boston Cream Pie.
- Apple Pie.
- Chicken Pot Pie.
- Chicken Curry Pot Pie.
- Hawaiian Quiche Lorraine.
- Spinach Quiche.
- Vegetable Hot Pie.
- Vegetable Curry Pot Pie.
- And a bunch of cookies.