Mayor's Residence Art Salon Introduction
The Mayor's Residence was built in 1940, featuring tatami rooms and Western-style furniture, resembling a contemporary art museum with a "Japanese-Western mixed style". Almost all mayors before 1994 lived here; after Mayor Huang Ta-chou moved out upon leaving office, it has remained uninhabited. Following the establishment of the Taipei City Cultural Bureau, the residence has been externally managed and opened to the public, becoming a cultural center focused on literature, history, and philosophy, hosting various art exhibitions and events as well as offering art courses for the public. The Mayor's Residence includes an art restaurant, a performance hall, a small VIP meeting room, a Japanese-style lecture hall, a life art museum, a sunlit reading room, and two outdoor plazas totaling about 100 ping (around 330 square meters) in the front and back gardens. The art restaurant is a popular spot with outdoor seating fully occupied on nice days, offering signature dishes such as roasted lamb shank and German pork knuckle, as well as the Mayor's Residence set meal and business lunch, with a diverse range of flavors. There is also a thoughtfully prepared vegetable baked rice for vegetarians. The sunlit reading room specializes in poetry collections, being the only place in Taipei dedicated to selling poetry books, hoping to encourage everyone to engage with this cultural space to enrich their souls.
