Restaurant in Taipei, Taiwan
Seasonal Tainan cooking, $$ price, Michelin-starred.
A Michelin 1 Star modern Taiwanese restaurant in Taipei's Songshan District, Fujin Tree reinterprets Tainan cooking for champagne pairing at the $$ price tier — making it one of Taipei's clearest value cases in the Michelin bracket. Book weekday lunch for the best chance at a table; the seasonal menu and reliable signature dishes make it worth two or three visits across different times of year.
If you're trying to secure a table at Fujin Tree's Songshan location, weekday lunch is your clearest path in. The Songshan branch on Dunhua North Road draws a slightly less frenzied crowd than the flagship Taipei 101 tower location (which opened in 2024 and carries heavier tourist traffic), which means early-week lunch slots open up more reliably. For first-timers, this is the smarter entry point: lower competition for reservations, the same Michelin 1 Star kitchen, and enough time at midday to pace through the menu without the dinner-service energy pushing you along.
Fujin Tree Taiwanese Cuisine & Champagne is a modern Taiwanese restaurant that takes Tainan cooking as its foundation and reinterprets it for a contemporary audience. The founder brings a Tainanese sensibility to the menu — Tainan cuisine is characterised by a distinctly sweeter flavour profile , but the kitchen applies that base to dishes designed to pair with champagne, which is an unusual and genuinely considered conceit rather than a marketing label. The seasonal menu shifts regularly, while a handful of signature preparations have become reliable anchors across visits.
The room reinforces the concept without overstating it. Clever use of plant installations gives the space a greenhouse quality , you notice it immediately when you walk in. It reads as considered rather than theatrical, and it makes the room feel different from the standard modern Taiwanese dining room in Taipei's Da'an or Xinyi corridors. For a food and travel enthusiast looking for visual distinctiveness alongside culinary substance, the setting delivers on both counts.
The Google rating sits at 4.2 across nearly 2,000 reviews, which for a Michelin-starred venue in a competitive city is a signal worth reading carefully: it suggests a venue that satisfies a wide range of diners, not just a narrow critic-facing audience.
Because the menu rotates with the seasons and a few signature dishes anchor each iteration, Fujin Tree Songshan is genuinely worth returning to across two or three visits rather than treating as a single-occasion restaurant.
Visit one: Come for lunch, order broadly, and use the meal to identify which dishes are seasonal specials versus the kitchen's recurring signatures. Stir-fried leafy greens with wax apple and scrambled eggs with tomato and lobster are documented staples , order them both to establish a baseline for what the kitchen does when it's working on familiar ground. This is also the visit to figure out whether the champagne pairing format works for you personally; the price tier ($$) means you are not committing a significant sum to the experiment.
Visit two: Return in a different season. The menu change is not cosmetic , Taiwanese seasonal produce shifts meaningfully between spring and autumn, and the kitchen's approach to local ingredients means the experience reads differently depending on when you come. A dinner visit on a Saturday, when the kitchen runs a continuous service from 12 PM to 10 PM, gives you more flexibility on timing and lets you experience the room in evening light, which changes the greenhouse atmosphere considerably.
Visit three: If you are in Taipei long enough, compare Songshan against the Taipei 101 flagship. The 101 location is newer, higher-profile, and almost certainly harder to book, but the Songshan branch has the neighbourhood context and the slightly more relaxed pace that makes it the better call for extended tasting rather than a performance dinner. Comparing the two gives you a useful read on how Jay Wu's kitchen performs across different operating environments.
For wider context on Taiwan's Michelin-recognised modern Taiwanese category, it's worth knowing that venues like JL Studio in Taichung and YUENJI in Taichung operate in adjacent creative territory, which gives you a broader framework for evaluating what Fujin Tree does specifically. If you are travelling beyond Taipei, A Cun Beef Soup in Tainan is a useful point of reference for what unmediated Tainan cuisine looks like before it reaches a modern Taiwanese kitchen.
Reservations: Book as far in advance as possible; this is a hard booking at a Michelin-starred venue with multiple locations competing for the same audience. Weekday lunch is your leading window. Hours: Monday to Friday 12 PM–3 PM and 5 PM–10 PM; Saturday and Sunday 12 PM–10 PM (continuous). Budget: $$ price tier , accessible by Taipei Michelin standards, particularly at lunch. Dress: Smart casual is the appropriate register for a venue at this level; the greenhouse aesthetic is relaxed but the Michelin context means you should dress a level above streetwear. Location: Songshan District, Lane 199, Dunhua North Road , a walkable neighbourhood with strong supporting options for pre- or post-dinner drinks.
If you are building a Taipei itinerary around Taiwanese cuisine, these venues sit in adjacent or complementary territory: Golden Formosa, Ming Fu, Mipon, Mountain and Sea House, and Shin Yeh Taiwanese Signature each offer different price points and formats. For a broader view of the city's dining options, see our full Taipei restaurants guide. For planning the rest of your trip: Taipei hotels, Taipei bars, Taipei wineries, and Taipei experiences.
If you are travelling across Taiwan more broadly, GEN in Kaohsiung, Volando Urai Spring Spa & Resort in Wulai District, A Gan Yi Taro Balls in New Taipei, and Ang Gu in Hsinchu County are all worth noting for different registers and regions. And if you want to see what Taiwanese cooking looks like transplanted to New York, 886 in New York City is the most useful comparison point.
| Venue | Cuisine | Price | Booking Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fujin Tree Taiwanese Cuisine & Champagne (Songshan) | Taiwanese | $$ | Hard |
| logy | Modern European, Asian Contemporary | $$$$ | Unknown |
| Le Palais | Cantonese | $$$$ | Unknown |
| Taïrroir | Taiwanese/French, Taiwanese contemporary | $$$$ | Unknown |
| Mudan Tempura | Tempura | $$$$ | Unknown |
| de nuit | French Contemporary | $$$$ | Unknown |
Comparing your options in Taipei for this tier.
For higher-end Taiwanese-rooted cooking, Taïrroir is the direct comparison — two Michelin stars and a tasting-menu format at a higher price point. Le Palais covers Cantonese rather than Taiwanese but sits in the same Michelin bracket if you want formal Chinese fine dining. For something lighter and more accessible, Mudan Tempura shifts the format entirely but stays in the refined-but-approachable register that Fujin Tree occupies at $$.
The room is described as having a greenhouse vibe with plant art, which signals a polished but relaxed setting rather than a formal dining room. At $$ pricing with a Michelin star, dress neatly — think business casual — but there is no indication the venue enforces a strict dress code. Overly casual beachwear would be out of place; a clean, put-together look is the safe call.
The menu rotates seasonally, so what you read about online may not reflect what is currently served — go in knowing you are eating whatever is in season. A handful of signature dishes, including stir-fried leafy greens with wax apple and scrambled eggs with tomato and lobster, do recur. The champagne pairing angle is built into the concept, so ordering a glass alongside food is the intended experience, not an add-on. Book as far ahead as possible: Michelin-starred venues in Taipei fill quickly, and Fujin Tree has multiple locations drawing from the same reservation pool.
At $$, Fujin Tree Songshan is one of the more accessible entry points into Michelin-starred dining in Taipei. The value case is straightforward: a rotating seasonal menu with a clear culinary perspective, Michelin recognition since 2024, and a concept — Tainan cooking paired with champagne — that is distinct rather than generic. If you are comparing it to Taïrroir at a higher price point, Fujin Tree is the right call for a shorter, less formal meal; if you want pure Taiwanese street-food value, it is not that kind of restaurant.
No specific dietary accommodation information is in the available venue data. Given the seasonal, produce-driven menu with dishes built around ingredients like leafy greens, wax apple, tomato, and eggs alongside seafood and champagne pairings, vegetarians should confirm options when booking. check the venue's official channels before your visit — do not assume flexibility without checking.
Weekday lunch is the practical choice if your priority is getting a table: it is the easier booking window at a Michelin-starred venue that fills fast. Saturday and Sunday run continuous 12 PM to 10 PM service, which gives more flexibility on weekends. Dinner makes sense if you want the full champagne-pairing experience in a more relaxed evening setting, but the menu is the same kitchen regardless of time slot — so booking ease should drive the decision more than any difference in quality.
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