Taiwan loves all-you-can-eat restaurants — the top 10 buffet champions include “Hanshe Le Chef”

Tourism Center / Comprehensive Report

All-you-can-eat seems to have an almost indescribable magic for Taiwanese. Every year during travel expos, tickets to buffet restaurants at major hotels sell out like hot cakes.DailyView Internet Popularity MeterBased on online buzz and positive-to-negative sentiment ratio, the platform has selected the top 10 buffet restaurants. The champion is the recently opened Hanshe Le Chef, while the second and third places go to Grand Hyatt’s Café Kafe and Sheraton’s 12 Kitchen, respectively.

1st Place: Hanshe Le Chef

▲ Hanshe Le Chef features a dessert section with nearly 70 varieties. (Photo / Reporter Chen Ziyin)

Opened in September, Hanshe Le Chef has four main dining sections: desserts, cold dishes, hot dishes, and a Japanese sashimi and sushi bar. With around 130 dishes available daily, the most astonishing part is the dessert section with nearly 70 choices, which has driven female diners wild. Since its opening, it has caused a huge sensation — reservation lines are constantly busy, and walk-ins may face a 12-hour wait. The queue is now better on non-holidays, but holidays remain tough for reservations.

Meal Prices: Lunch & Dinner: NT$780 (+10% service charge)

2nd Place: Grand Hyatt Café Kafe

▲ Grand Hyatt Café Kafe. (Photo / Provided by Grand Hyatt)

When it comes to buffets, Grand Hyatt’s Café Kafe is also one of the popular choices. According to official information, it offers up to 168 dishes, including seafood bar, cold appetizers, Chinese stir-fries, Western grilled dishes, Hong Kong-style dim sum, Japanese cuisine, and desserts & fruits.

Meal Prices:
Monday to Thursday lunch & dinner, and Friday lunch: NT$1100 (+10% service charge)
Friday dinner, weekend lunch & dinner: NT$1300 (+10% service charge)
Afternoon tea: NT$780 (+10% service charge)

3rd Place: Sheraton Twelve Kitchen

▲ Twelve Kitchen is divided into 12 fully open culinary zones. (Photo / Provided by Sheraton Hotel)

Twelve Kitchen is divided into 12 fully open culinary zones, including a salad section, cold dishes, Japanese cuisine, Chinese cuisine, Western cuisine, Southeast Asian flavors, seafood, roast meats & barbecue, various pasta, dim sum, freshly baked desserts & breads, and a beverage area. Highly recommended by major media, Sheraton Twelve Kitchen has long been favored by foodies. With offerings ranging from seafood and Japanese to Chinese cuisine, even the desserts receive high praise online, and the lines are always long during service hours.

Meal Prices:
Weekdays
Breakfast: NT$700 (+10% service charge)
Lunch: NT$990 (+10% service charge)
Afternoon tea: NT$590 (+10% service charge)
Dinner: NT$1050 (+10% service charge)

Holidays
Breakfast: NT$700 (+10% service charge)
Lunch: NT$1290 (+10% service charge)
Afternoon tea: NT$690 (+10% service charge)
Dinner: NT$1,290 (+10% service charge)

4th place: The Regent Taipei’s Silk Road Feast

The Regent Taipei’s Silk Road Feast selects spices from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India, and China along the ancient Silk Road, and combines them with fresh, healthy ingredients to create a variety of multi-national dishes that blend creativity with traditional authenticity. Through Eurasian-inspired space design and a traditional Indian tandoor kitchen, it offers a new dining experience featuring “shop-in-shop” beverages and buffet delicacies. Additionally, the Silk Road Feast breaks industry standards for buffets by upgrading both lunch and dinner, serving each guest an à la carte main course: dry-aged steak.

Meal prices:
Breakfast: NT$750 (+10% service charge)
Lunch & Dinner: NT$1,380 (+10% service charge)
Afternoon Tea: NT$990 (without à la carte main course) / NT$1,380 (with à la carte main course) (+10% service charge)

5th place: The Modern Courtyard’s Cloud Lounge

▲ The Modern Courtyard’s Cloud Lounge is famous for its all-you-can-eat lobster. (Photo / Provided by The Modern)

A top-tier French grill restaurant emphasizing open-kitchen cooking, it is a semi-buffet Western-style eatery. However, its all-you-can-eat lobster, king crab, and steak offerings have also earned The Modern Courtyard’s Cloud Lounge a reputation in the buffet scene. On December 26, Boxing Day, The Modern Hotel’s Cloud Lounge Western Restaurant offers four dining time slots (10:30–12:30, 13:00–15:00, 18:00–20:00, 20:30–22:30), with a limit of 180 guests per slot. Each person pays NT$1,980 + 10% (original price NT$3,980 + 10%). In addition to enjoying the annually popular festive turkey, this year also includes all-you-can-eat Canadian lobster and wild king crab.

Meal prices:
Weekdays:
Breakfast: NT$680 (+10% service charge)
Lunch: Starting from NT$1,280 (+10% service charge)
Afternoon Tea: NT$980 (+10% service charge)
Dinner: Starting from NT$1,380 (+10% service charge)

Holidays:
Breakfast: NT$680 (+10% service charge)
Lunch: Starting from NT$1,380 (+10% service charge)
Afternoon Tea: NT$980 (+10% service charge)
Dinner: Starting from NT$1,380 (+10% service charge)

6th place: PINO Italian & Seafood Buffet

▲ PINO Italian & Seafood Buffet, reputed to be Taiwan’s largest buffet restaurant. Pictured is the whole roasted pig. (Photo / Taken by Huang Shih-yuan)

Reputed to be Taiwan’s largest buffet restaurant, PINO Italian & Seafood Buffet began trial operations on November 1. Covering an area of 1,200 ping, it features 30 chefs from various cuisines preparing dishes on-site, including Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Indian, and Italian—totaling 24 cuisine sections. What sets PINO apart is that although its weekday lunch costs NT$1,080, it comes with a complimentary large lobster valued at NT$1,300 per person, resulting in long lunchtime queues even on weekdays.

Meal prices:
Adult weekday lunch: NT$1,080 (includes one lobster), weekday dinner: NT$880; holiday lunch & dinner: NT$980. (+10% service charge)
Children (90–110 cm tall): NT$380, (111–130 cm tall): NT$580 (+10% service charge)

7th place: Les Suites Taipei Chiang Kai-shek’s Exploratorium Kitchen

In the early days, The Grand Hyatt was arguably the top five-star hotel in Xinyi District, but as new hotels opened one after another, Les Suites Taipei Chiang Kai-shek, part of the same group as Sheraton, also set up shop in Xinyi. Since it belongs to the same group as Sheraton, the quality of its buffet restaurant is also commendable, and it has been gaining increasing popularity among the public in recent times.

Meal prices:
Breakfast: NT$790 (+10% service charge)
Lunch: NT$1590 (+10% service charge)
Afternoon tea: NT$990 (+10% service charge)
Dinner: NT$1590 (+10% service charge)

8th place: Feast Paradise

▲ Feast Paradise now has 10 branches across Taiwan. (Photo / BearRudy)

Feast Paradise is a buffet restaurant that has risen in popularity in recent years. With 10 branches currently, its affordable pricing keeps it highly sought after—making advance reservations essential to enjoy its cuisine.

Dining prices:
Monday to Friday
Lunch: NT$658 (+10% service charge)
Afternoon tea: NT$538 (+10% service charge)
Dinner: NT$768 (+10% service charge)

Saturday and public holidays
Lunch: NT$738 (+10% service charge)
Afternoon tea: NT$628 (+10% service charge)
Dinner: NT$828 (+10% service charge)

9th place: Han Lai Harbor Restaurant

Han Lai Harbor Restaurant, the flagship brand of the Han Lai Food Group, enjoys strong popularity in southern Taiwan. In November, its second branch opened at Taoyuan’s Taimall Shopping Center, drawing huge crowds both inside and outside the venue, sparking a local craze in Taoyuan. The restaurant is especially beloved by netizens for its seafood offerings, featuring 2–3 types of crab and a variety of seafood daily.

Dining prices
Weekdays
Breakfast: NT$450 (+10% service charge)
Lunch: NT$700 (+10% service charge)
Afternoon tea: NT$530 (+10% service charge)
Dinner: NT$830 (+10% service charge)

Holidays
Breakfast: NT$450 (+10% service charge)
Lunch: NT$880 (+10% service charge)
Afternoon tea: NT$600 (+10% service charge)
Dinner: NT$880 (+10% service charge)

10th place: Far Eastern Cafe

Desserts, desserts, give me all the desserts I can eat!

Far East Cafe is also one of the long-established buffet restaurants in Greater Taipei. In addition to a variety of seafood, hot dishes, and steaks, its desserts have also received good reviews online, with a notably high approval rating on DailyView's Online Popularity Chart.

Dining Prices
Weekdays
Breakfast: NT$790 (+10% service charge)
Lunch: NT$780 (+10% service charge)
Afternoon Tea: NT$490 (+10% service charge)
Dinner: NT$810 (+10% service charge)

Weekends/Holidays
Breakfast: NT$790 (+10% service charge)
Lunch: NT$1050 (+10% service charge)
Afternoon Tea: NT$550 (+10% service charge)
Dinner: NT$980 (+10% service charge) on Fridays and Sundays, NT$1050 (+10% service charge) on Saturdays.