Back to the guideTHE WORK BEHIND THE WANDER

Research & photo credits.

TWoffee is an editorial guide built from research checked on 11 September 2026. It covers 28 selected coffee areas, grouping adjacent neighborhoods where useful. Explore regional browsing, individual café pages and the nearby map. It is not an exhaustive directory of Taipei.

We prioritize café and roaster websites for branch details, then use specialist coffee coverage, official tourism information, and independent reviews to understand why a place might suit a particular visitor. “Our suggested order” is an editorial recommendation, not a claim of a firsthand tasting or guaranteed current menu availability.

Older articles provide context, not live hours or prices. When listings conflict, the guide flags the detail or directs you to the current branch listing. There are no invented star ratings, visitor counts, or claims of personal visits.

The café map

Map pins come from the named branch’s public location data. The pin must match the address in the café notes; when we cannot confirm that match, the café stays in the directory without a pin. Distances are straight lines, so use the directions link for the actual route and local terrain.

36 of 54 cafés have a sourced map position. Your device location is used on the map page only and is not stored by this guide.

The café sources

Ximending

Yitong & Longjiang

Minsheng & Fujin

Yongkang & Dongmen

North Gate & Taipei Main

Gongguan & Shida South

Zhongshan

Dadaocheng

Huashan & Xinsheng

Southern Da’an

East District

Xinyi & Taipei 101

Anhe & Xinyi Road

Zhongshan Junior High

Nanjing Fuxing

Yongchun & City Hall Lanes

Wuxing & Zhuangjing

Memorial Hall & Ningbo

Xiaonanmen

Shuanglian

Tianmu

Beitou · Daoxiang

Qilian & Dadu Road

Guandu

Xihu · Neihu

Nangang

Jingmei

Muzha Riverside

The photographs

7 branches have a verified reusable photograph. The other 47 have text entries: we could not establish both exact branch identity and usable image rights. Area lettering is typography, not a depiction of a café. This independent guide carries no advertising or affiliate links.

Every photograph is linked to a page identifying the depicted café and branch. Photographs are stored in optimized sizes for this guide, with the original source and credit retained. Dates, where known, identify archival imagery. Interiors and storefronts may have changed. Images remain the property of their respective owners. The source and reuse basis are recorded for each image. Attribution does not imply endorsement.

Fong Da Coffee’s Chengdu Road shopfront and biscuit jarsTonnyTW 0907P · 2024Public-domain dedication; resized and converted to WebP. · Reuse basis ↗
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Coffee Underwater storefront on Lane 106, Longjiang Road玄 史生 · 2022Public-domain dedication; orientation corrected, resized and converted to WebP. · Reuse basis ↗
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Tables and coffee counter inside YABOO’s Yongkang Street caféAhh.Khai · 2026Public-domain dedication; resized and converted to WebP. · Reuse basis ↗
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NOTCH Honmachi’s brick façade on Chongqing South Road阿道 · 2025CC BY-SA 4.0; resized and converted to WebP, with responsive display crops. Image adaptations remain under CC BY-SA 4.0. · Reuse basis ↗
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An ALL DAY Roasting Company cup at the Yanshou Street caféspeedbug · 2018CC BY-NC-SA 2.0; resized and converted to WebP for this noncommercial guide. Image adaptations remain under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. · Reuse basis ↗
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A cappuccino in a Fika Fika cup at the original Yitong Street caféBlowing Puffer Fish · 2014CC BY 2.0; resized and converted to WebP, with responsive display crops. · Reuse basis ↗
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A hand brew being poured at Zhanlu Coffee’s NTU branchSteven Tsai · 2013CC BY-NC-ND 2.0; unaltered composition, technical resizing and WebP conversion only. Full image displayed without cropping; noncommercial use. · Reuse basis ↗
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