# Best Cafes in Taipei

Taipei's specialty coffee scene, from World Barista Championship winners' bars to the roasteries that put a single Taiwanese address on a global 2025 best-of-100 list. · community starter list

A list of the 7 best cafes in Taipei, including Simple Kaffa (Zhongzheng, Taipei). The order here is where we started — no votes have been cast yet, so voting decides it from here.

**Where:** [Third Platz](/.md) / [Taiwan](/taiwan.md) / Taipei
**Updated:** 2026-09-05 21:38:06

1. **[Simple Kaffa](/e/simple-kaffa---1904.md)** (cafe) — Flagship specialty coffee bar near Huashan founded by 2016 World Barista Champion Wu Tse-lin (Berg Wu), named among Taiwan's ten most-discussed chain coffee brands in a May 2025 industry ranking. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://playing.ltn.com.tw/article/27189/1, http://travel.udn.com/travel/story/7270/8756591
2. **[Rufous Coffee Roasters](/e/rufous-coffee-roasters---1905.md)** (cafe) — Self-roasting specialty cafe on Fuxing South Road, the only Taiwan entry on the inaugural World's 100 Best Coffee Shops list, ranked 85th and announced in February 2025. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.foodnext.net/news/newsnow/paper/6731059650, https://www.cna.com.tw/news/aopl/202502200036.aspx
3. **[All Day Roasting Company](/e/all-day-roasting-company---1906.md)** (cafe) — Self-roasting industrial-style cafe that anchors the Minsheng Community coffee scene, marking its tenth year in 2024 and still listed among Taiwan's touring specialty coffee brands in mid-2025. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://playing.ltn.com.tw/article/31698, https://www.verse.com.tw/article/all-day-roasting-company-bondi-chai-collab
4. **[Fika Fika Cafe](/e/fika-fika-cafe---1907.md)** (cafe) — Specialty coffee bar by Yitong Park founded by Chen Chih-huang, first non-Nordic winner of the 2013 Nordic Roaster Championship, which opened a second Yitong Street concept, SHIU XIANG, in 2024. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://playing.ltn.com.tw/article/30245, https://www.fikafikacafe.com/pages/%E6%89%80%E6%9C%89%E5%92%96%E5%95%A1%E8%B1%86
5. **[VWI by CHADWANG](/e/vwi-by-chadwang---1908.md)** (cafe) — White glass-house pour-over bar near Zhongxiao Fuxing from Chad Wang, Taiwan's first World Brewers Cup champion in 2017, named for water's three states: vapor, water, ice. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.wowlavie.com/article/ae1802474, https://vwibychadwang.cyberbiz.co/zh-TW
6. **[Ruins Coffee Roasters](/e/ruins-coffee-roasters---1909.md)** (cafe) — Vintage-furnished cafe beside Jingmei Creek that founder Hong Hsi-kai hand-built from a disused warehouse in 2016, its night-heron-bone logo taken from a find on the original site. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.verse.com.tw/article/ruins-coffee-roasters, https://www.facebook.com/RuinsCoffeeRoasters/
7. **[Fujin Tree 353 Cafe](/e/fujin-tree-353-cafe---1910.md)** (cafe) — Minsheng Community cafe on Fujin Street opened in January 2014, its coffee program run by Wu Tse-lin of Simple Kaffa while Fujin Tree Group supplies the interiors, food and floristry. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.shoppingdesign.com.tw/post/view/50, https://www.fujintreeshop.com/pages/shopinfo

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