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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 358 cafes
Best cafes in Tainan
The 10 most notable cafes in Tainan, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
道南館
民族路二段248號
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.419, percentile 100 of 358
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2
85度C 臺南小北店
西門路四段277號
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.410, percentile 99.72 of 358
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3
TreesWind
No. 331號, Section 1, Fuqian Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.407, percentile 99.44 of 358
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4
East Town Co. Cafe
東門路一段211巷13號
357 m from Dongmen Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.393, percentile 99.16 of 358
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5
名坂奇
裕信路321號
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.386, percentile 98.88 of 358
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6
南島夢遊
No. 18號, Lane 487, Gongyuan Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.383, percentile 98.6 of 358
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7
可斯里咖啡烘焙
No. 908號, Section 3, Hai'an Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.373, percentile 98.32 of 358
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8
85度C華平店
華平路507號
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.366, percentile 98.04 of 358
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9
Dee Goo Cafe
No. 838號, Section 3, Datong Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.356, percentile 97.76 of 358
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10
Coin Café 2
No. 57號, Lane 171 Section 4 Jimen Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.351, percentile 97.48 of 358
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).