City Mayor's Residence Art Salon Introduction
The Mayor's Residence was built in 1940 and features a traditional Japanese room with tatami mats and Western-style furniture, resembling a contemporary art museum, embodying a mix of Japanese and Western styles. Before 1994, almost all past mayors lived here, but after Mayor Huang Dazhou moved out upon completing his term, it was left unoccupied. After the establishment of the Taipei Cultural Bureau, it was outsourced for management and opened to the public, becoming a cultural and artistic center focused on literature, history, and philosophy, hosting various exhibitions and events, as well as offering art courses for public learning. 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, a front and back yard covering approximately 100 ping. The art restaurant is a popular spot, often fully booked on nice days for its outdoor seating, with signature dishes like roasted lamb shank and German pork knuckle, as well as the Mayor's Residence Set Meal and business lunch options, featuring a diverse range of flavors, including a thoughtful vegetarian baked rice. The sunlit reading room specializes in poetry collections, being the only place in Taipei dedicated to selling poetry books, with the hope of encouraging everyone to engage with this cultural space to enrich their souls.
