To Infinity & Beyond

To Infinity & Beyond earns its rank by committing fully to one idea without letting spectacle swallow the drinks. The automatic doors and neon-lit cabin are fun, but the menu is serious: each cocktail is built around a clear textural goal, and Mars Chang's team explains it without jargon. You leave remembering how a drink felt in the mouth as much as how it looked in the glass. For a first visit in Taipei, this is the concept bar that best shows why the Eastern District scene now travels internationally.

The bar sits on Lane 160 off Dunhua South Road, a few minutes from Zhongxiao Dunhua metro. You pass through space-themed automatic doors into a compact, psychedelic room of sleek panels and low light that reads like a spacecraft lounge rather than a speakeasy. Counter seats face the open bar and suit solo drinkers or pairs; small tables work for groups who want to share the show. Service runs in Mandarin and English, and the room fills quickly after the 20:00 opening, especially on Friday and Saturday when closing stretches to 03:00.

The menu groups drinks by creaminess, clarification, and carbonation instead of base spirit, which makes ordering easier once you know whether you want weight, brightness, or fizz. Start with (EARTH)²⁰²⁵ for forest depth from pine needles, pink peppercorn, and palo santo, or Σ(stars) = GALAXY for a backlit serve of red guava and jasmine tea that looks like a nebula. Comet layers miso, rose geranium, apricot, and guava foam with liquid-nitrogen ice cream for the bar at its most theatrical. Neptune stays lighter: yuzu, jasmine, clarified watermelon soda, and a coconut air cap. Tell the bartender your texture preference and let them steer you through the current list.

The address is No. 13, Lane 160, Section 1, Dunhua South Road in Da'an District. Take the MRT to Zhongxiao Dunhua on Lines 1 and 5 and walk the short lane from Dunhua South Road. The bar opens at 20:00 nightly: Sunday to Thursday until 02:00, Friday and Saturday until 03:00, with the same late hours on the eve of public holidays. Reserve up to 30 days ahead through Inline; for same-day tables or groups of eight or more, call +886 2 8771 8890 or message Instagram. Weekday minimum spend is NT$500 per person with no time limit; on weekends, NT$500 before 22:00 with a two-hour limit, then NT$800 after 22:00 with no time cap.

Chang opened To Infinity & Beyond at 25 after winning World Class Taiwan in 2021, bringing rotary distillation and centrifugal clarification to a city that already had strong classic bars but fewer rooms organised around process. The team extracts flavour at low temperature, clarifies juices for clean texture, and carbonates where the drink needs lift, so each glass reads as layered rather than busy. The space theme is not decoration pasted onto standard serves: planetary names and cosmic visuals tie to how the liquid is built. That discipline helped the bar climb from No.41 on the 2025 list to No.36 in 2026.

Our 2026 Asia ranking places To Infinity & Beyond at No.36, up from its No.41 debut on the 2025 list and the highest ranked cocktail room in Taipei on the current Asia chart. Jurors cite the bar's scientific approach, its textural menu structure, and Mars Chang's consistency at the counter. Taipei has grown a dense Eastern District bar strip in the lanes around Dunhua and Zhongxiao, and this room has become the export-facing face of that younger generation: imaginative without losing drinkability, and serious enough that repeat visitors track menu changes season to season.