C25 Du Cafe — Restaurant in Da'an District

Do not come here if you want to be in an environment free from cigarette smoke.

The door of the cafe is kept open and this allows the smell of cigarette smoke from people smoking in the chairs right next to the door and on the patio to enter the cafe.

I asked if it was possible to move from the table right next to the door and the server offered a much smaller table. I asked about a similarly sized table in the middle of the cafe and she said that because they keep windows open, the smell of cigarette smoke would probably be there too.

This problem could be avoided by not putting chairs right next to the door (or not allowing people to smoke in these chairs) and not keeping windows open, which seems totally unnecessary anyway given that the cafe has AC.

While the servers were friendly and attentive, there are many cafes in Taipei where service is good and patrons aren't forced to inhale toxic cigarette smoke so I would not recommend this cafe to...

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