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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 648 bars
Best bars in Taipei
The 10 most notable bars in Taipei, 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
Mikkeller Bar Taipei
南京西路241號
470 m from Beimen Station, metro
listed by Overture Maps Foundation and PinMeTo · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.394, percentile 100 of 648
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2
Taihu Brewing Driftwood Ximending
No. 46號, Kunming St
463 m from Simen Emergency Halt Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.388, percentile 99.85 of 648
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3
Bar Mood Taipei
敦化南路一段160巷53號
365 m from Zhongxiao Fuxing Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.387, percentile 99.69 of 648
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4
台日交流Cafe & Bar Kiseki
No. 50號, Lane 133, Linsen N Rd
524 m from Huashan Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.386, percentile 99.54 of 648
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5
Wa-Shu
Lane 101, Section 4, Zhongxiao E Rd, 39號A2
307 m from Zhongxiao Dunhua Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.385, percentile 99.38 of 648
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6
Crafted Beer & Co
台灣104台北市中山區玉門街1號
262 m from Yuanshan Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.382, percentile 99.23 of 648
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7
Cocoon Poolside Bar
No. 55號, Lequn 2nd Rd
516 m from Jiannan Road Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.381, percentile 99.07 of 648
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8
City North
Lane 362, Minsheng W Rd, 15號2樓
776 m from Beimen Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.380, percentile 98.92 of 648
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KOR Taipei
5F, No. 201號, Section 4, Zhongxiao E Rd
107 m from Zhongxiao Dunhua Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.379, percentile 98.76 of 648
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10
EAST END
Section 1, Da'an Rd, 56號3F
280 m from Zhongxiao Fuxing Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.377, percentile 98.61 of 648
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).