Food festivals in Taipei worth planning a trip around, by month.
Food festivals in Taipei worth planning a trip around, by month.
The Taipei International Beef Noodle Festival is the city's defining food event, run by the Taipei City Government since 2005, three days of beef noodle.
Focus: Beef noodle soup
Tip: Free entry. Bring cash and an appetite; runs October 30 to November 1 in 2026.
The Taiwan Culinary Exhibition at Taipei World Trade Center Hall 1 runs four days of chef cooking competitions and Taiwanese specialty ingredients, organised by the Taiwan Visitors Association.
Focus: Taiwanese cuisine showcase
Tip: Tickets NT$200 at the door, NT$180 pre-sale and NT$150 concessions, sold through ibon, FamiTicket, udn, Klook and TaiTIX; doors 10:00 to 18:00.
Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival, marking the 15th day of the Lunar New Year, takes place at Pingxi Junior High School and Shifen Sky Lantern Square 40 minutes.
Focus: Night-market eats and sky lantern release
Tip: Free entry. Releases every 20 minutes 18:00-21:00; shuttle from Pingxi MRT.
Taipei Lantern Festival turns the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall plaza into a lantern park with food stalls for 10 nights every February, scaled by the Taipei.
Focus: Lantern viewing with food stalls
Tip: Free entry. Trains run extended; MRT Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall Exit 5.
Food Taipei is the city's biggest food trade exhibition in Taipei, organised by TAITRA at the Nangang Exhibition Center, four days of vendor stalls and chef.
Focus: International food trade exhibition
Tip: Trade only on day 1 to 3; public day on the final Saturday. Register online ahead.
Songshan Cultural Park Beer Festival pours Taiwanese craft beer from 30-plus brewers over two September weekends in Taipei, with bar food trucks and live.
Focus: Craft beer and bar bites
Tip: Free entry; pay-per-pour. Bring cash and ID; runs September 12 to 20 in 2026.
Mid-Autumn Festival in Taipei runs three days of mooncake and pomelo culture, barbecues in the parks, and lantern displays at temples around the lunar moon.
Focus: Mooncakes, pomelo, barbecue
Tip: Public holiday weekend. Mooncake gifts from Chia Te and Kuo Yuan Ye sell out in the week prior.
The Taiwan International Coffee Show runs four days each November at Nangang Exhibition Center, with roasters, tea houses, barista competitions and workshops.
Focus: Coffee, tea, roasting equipment
Tip: It opens 10:00 to 18:00 and the barista competition draws the biggest crowds. Taipei's own roasters cluster in Hall 1.
The Taipei City Office of Commerce and Flavor guide link more than 100 restaurants for a month of set menus at NT$1,200 and NT$2,600, with a Design Taipei series of chef menus built around the city's flavours.
Focus: Casual fine dining set menus across Taipei
Tip: Book directly with the restaurant and say Taipei Restaurant Week when reserving; the NT$2,600 Design Taipei menus at the 19 headline restaurants go first.
Beitou's hot spring association opens the bathing season with a five day street festival around MRT Xinbeitou Station, pairing hotel and restaurant hot spring cuisine with performances, drumming and bathhouse promotions.
Focus: Hot spring cuisine, Beitou restaurant and hotel menus
Tip: The opening ceremony evening draws the biggest crowd; book a Beitou hotel bath and dinner package for the festival week rather than queuing at the public baths.
For the fortnight before Lunar New Year the dried goods shops of Dihua Street spill onto the pavement with tasting stalls of nuts, candied fruit, mullet roe, sausages and sweets, run by the city's Office of Commerce.
Focus: Dried goods, nuts, candied fruit, sausages, New Year snacks
Tip: Go on a weekday morning; free shuttle buses run on three routes from nearby MRT stations and the whole street is a no smoking zone during the event.
Taipei's tourism bureau stages fireworks and drone shows over Dadaocheng Wharf for three weeks each summer, with concerts at Yongle Plaza and more than 90 Dihua Street shops and eateries running festival offers.
Focus: Dihua Street eateries, riverside food stalls
Tip: Fireworks nights are the opening Saturday, one midweek evening and the Qixi finale; eat on Dihua Street before 19:00, then walk to the wharf for the 20:00 show.
The food market of Taipei's Hakka Yimin Festival brings about 80 Hakka brands from across Taiwan to the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall arts plaza, selling dishes, farm produce, crafts and cultural goods, 09:00 to 19:30.
Focus: Hakka food, farm produce, rice cakes, preserved vegetables
Tip: The 20 food stalls are the draw; go at opening on Saturday before the lunchtime queues for stuffed rice cakes and Hakka stir fries.
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