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Restaurants / Cafes / Shops in Taipei
Maryjane Pizza -- I Recommend ☆☆☆☆
Taipei restaurant offering: Pizza / Salad / Dessert / Cheesecake / Beer & Cider
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Address & Phone:
No.25, Ln.44, Taishun St., Da'an Dist., Taipei City 106
台北市大安區泰順街44巷25號
(02) 2368-5222
Last Reviewed: 23 Nov 2011
_They have three locations, I went to the one just north-east of the Taipower Building MRT station where a lot of western restaurants and cafes can be found thanks to the nearby universities. This location has a nice comfortable alley atmosphere with inside and some outside seating on their deck. It is a good place to go with people and have a friendly chat while you eat some pizza.
It is hard to choose which pizza to get because they have so many wonderful options. If you go during lunch time, you can get a lunch set: tea or coffee, salad or soup and a pizza or some other options for only NT$180-200 (as shown on their website). We got one of the lunch sets, another pizza, and some cheesecake. The little salad had fresh ingredients and a great balsamic vinaigrette dressing; nice little starter. Both of our pizzas where great: Maryjane and The Meatza. The Maryjane Pizza was just like a Margherita Pizza but with some pesto on it and thinly sliced mushrooms. The pizzas are New York style, being thinned crusted and flat. The dough is nice, the sauce amount is good for a thin pizza, the cheese was good enough quality, and the toppings were fresh. I really want to try some of their other fabulous pizza creations.
Time for dessert. Most cheesecakes in Taipei are Asian style, meaning not dense and less cheesy tasting, or just not as good and not really a cheesecake. So I was surprised when a pizza place served up the best cheesecake I've ever had in Taipei. It was a REAL cheesecake, dense and delightfully cheesy. The crust was perfect as well. They made it a little fancy by adding some caramel sauce artistically on both sides of the cheesecake which was a superb addition, kicking up the flavor sensation in my palate . Don't be fooled into thinking you have to go to some posh bakery or restaurant for a good dessert. A lot of the time you will end up with an inferior tasting dessert that focuses more on presentation and less on taste and be stuck with a bill that will cost you an arm and a leg for artistic abilities that took less than half a minute to apply by some snobby buffoon; so silly.
It is hard to choose which pizza to get because they have so many wonderful options. If you go during lunch time, you can get a lunch set: tea or coffee, salad or soup and a pizza or some other options for only NT$180-200 (as shown on their website). We got one of the lunch sets, another pizza, and some cheesecake. The little salad had fresh ingredients and a great balsamic vinaigrette dressing; nice little starter. Both of our pizzas where great: Maryjane and The Meatza. The Maryjane Pizza was just like a Margherita Pizza but with some pesto on it and thinly sliced mushrooms. The pizzas are New York style, being thinned crusted and flat. The dough is nice, the sauce amount is good for a thin pizza, the cheese was good enough quality, and the toppings were fresh. I really want to try some of their other fabulous pizza creations.
Time for dessert. Most cheesecakes in Taipei are Asian style, meaning not dense and less cheesy tasting, or just not as good and not really a cheesecake. So I was surprised when a pizza place served up the best cheesecake I've ever had in Taipei. It was a REAL cheesecake, dense and delightfully cheesy. The crust was perfect as well. They made it a little fancy by adding some caramel sauce artistically on both sides of the cheesecake which was a superb addition, kicking up the flavor sensation in my palate . Don't be fooled into thinking you have to go to some posh bakery or restaurant for a good dessert. A lot of the time you will end up with an inferior tasting dessert that focuses more on presentation and less on taste and be stuck with a bill that will cost you an arm and a leg for artistic abilities that took less than half a minute to apply by some snobby buffoon; so silly.
