August 01, 2010
代官山101
Went to the Taipei101 with wife's family for lunch, because it was the one place nearby with convenient parking. The food court was too loud and busy to eat with the baby, so we went upstairs to where the sit-down restaurants are located. After walking a loop around, we settled on this place because it offered more spacing for us to eat with the baby. The restaurant occupies a prime spot on the fourth floor of the mall in the Taipei101 building, offering a wide variety of Japanese-style staples. Perhaps too many, as the menu listed everything from sushi to noodles to katsu to donburi. The restaurant is nicely appointed with solid wood furnitures, segregated booths with either sit-down and tatami seating, and a nice sushi bar with multiple chefs working behind it. But with such a large menu it was impossible to do everything, or even anything, particularly well. Wife's soup udon was tremendously bland, and my tempura set meal wasn't particularly well-fried, either. The set meal does offer lots of side dishes like chawanmushi, miso soup, and dessert. And the mushroom-rice was good, which helped to keep the kid fed, too.
The Japanese set-meal is the most common mid-priced sit-down restaurant around. And one can get similar, but tastier, food at much better prices elsewhere. At least the pricey meal helped to offset the parking fees, so it was barely worthwhile.
代官山101店
台北市信義區市府路45號
02-8101-7828