Mayor's Residence Art Salon Introduction
The Mayor's Residence was built in 1940, featuring tatami mat rooms and Western-style furniture, resembling a contemporary art museum with a "Japanese-Western mixed style." Before 1994, nearly all mayors have resided here, and after Mayor Huang Dazhou moved out, it remained uninhabited. Following the establishment of the Taipei City Cultural Affairs Bureau, the residence was entrusted for management and opened to the public, becoming an arts and cultural center focused on literature, history, and philosophy, hosting various exhibitions and activities, as well as offering arts courses for public learning. The Mayor's Residence includes an arts restaurant, a performance hall, a small VIP meeting room, a Japanese-style lecture hall, a life arts museum, a sunlit reading room, and two outdoor plazas totaling about 100 ping in the front yard and backyard. The arts restaurant is a popular place, often fully booked for outdoor seating on sunny days, with signature dishes like roasted lamb shank and German pork knuckles, as well as the Mayor's Residence set meal and business lunch options, all offering a rich variety of flavors. There is also a vegetarian baked rice dish thoughtfully prepared for vegetarians. The sunlit reading room specializes in poetry collections, making it the only place in Taipei dedicated to selling poetry books, hoping to encourage more people to engage with this cultural space to enrich their souls.
