Taipei Montmartre Image Cafe

(Left) Open air tea house in front of the museum. (Right) The café makes room for a bed, and guests chat lazily and freely.

Taipei Montmartre Image Cafe

- Paris impression of late night.

Taipei cafes, or Taiwanese food culture, have never experienced, but must have heard of it. Basically, Taiwanese are accustomed to urban coffee culture and can almost be said to live in the coffee world. Taipei's hottest coffee buzz has shifted to a series of mountain cafes. The owner of Montmartre Image Cafe, Lai Yuezhong, is a famous portrait photographer in Taipei. Because he loved Paris, he wanted to find the smell of Paris in Taipei, so he set up his own coffee new world in a corner of Yangmingshan to release the aroma of Paris coffee to his heart's content.

It is fortunate that a man of insight has opened a cafe in Taipei, because many visitors come from far away to stay at night, and the busiest time for cafes is after dinner. The restaurant is divided into three areas, namely, the open-air teahouse in front of the restaurant, the main hall and the rear hall. In Taipei in the hot summer, outdoor teahouses are also crowded, showing that Taiwan's younger generation has a deep love for coffee culture. The layout of the main hall and the rear hall is like an art gallery. There is also a large space in the hall to place a bed. Remember that it is the pattern of afternoon tea in the hall. There is no doubt that the owner is also fascinated by the hall. In his eyes, Paris and Paris belong to romantic cities, one inland, the other facing the sea; one is called flowers, the other is the capital of spring bath; one is close to the trend, the other is self-exile. Both places have something in common. They are ideal places to take wedding photos. It turned out that the owner had been a wedding photographer for 18 years, so it was naturally easy to turn the cafe into a mixture of two places.