A cocktail bar on the second floor
Somm Mixing Glass is a sofa cocktail bar in Taichung’s West District, a few minutes’ walk from the Calligraphy Greenway. Most of what we pour is stirred rather than shaken — spirit-forward drinks, served in low amber light, in a room quiet enough to hear the person across from you.
Finding us
We are up a staircase, on the second floor, down a small lane off Taiwan Boulevard. There is no large sign at street level. Walk into the lane, look for the stairs, and come up — you are in the right place.
2F, No. 3, Ln. 99, Sec. 2, Taiwan Blvd, West Dist., Taichung 403台中市西區台灣大道二段99巷3號2樓
Show the Chinese address to a taxi driver — Taiwanese addresses are far easier to find that way than in romanised form.
Before you come
- Hours
- 7:00 PM – 2:00 AMClosed Thursdays
- Minimum spend
- NT$500 per personEverything you order counts toward it, plus a 10% service charge. It is a minimum spend, not a cover charge
- Payment
- Credit cards acceptedYou pay when you leave
- Smoking
- Non-smoking indoorsSeparate smoking room
- Private room
- Seats about 15Book the whole room for NT$10,000 (credited toward your bill, plus a 10% service charge)
- Language
- Menu is in Chinese and English
What to order
The list runs to eighteen original cocktails, grouped into three chapters — first encounter, warmth, and the ones people come back for. Classics are not on the menu but are always available at NT$400; just ask at the bar. The kitchen serves until midnight. Several drinks can be made without alcohol for NT$300, and they are built as carefully as the rest, not treated as an afterthought. Prices are plus a 10% service charge.
If you would rather not choose, say what you usually drink — or what kind of evening you are having — and let the bartender decide.
Wine, whisky & sake by the glass
Six wines pour by the glass at NT$400: a dry Loire rosé, two whites (a Corsican Vermentino and a Chardonnay), a Crémant de Loire, an orange wine and a Beaujolais. They also come as flights of three, NT$999 for the rosé and the two whites and NT$1,299 for the sparkling, the orange and the red, plus a four-glass bartender's choice at NT$1,599.
Whisky is NT$400 a glass: Macallan 12 Sherry Oak and Double Cask, Balvenie 12 DoubleWood, Highland Park 12 and Monkey Shoulder, with a Marc de Bourgogne and two Valdespino sherries, a Fino and a Pedro Ximénez, on the same list. No.3 London Dry Gin is NT$350. Somm Sake, which Liz brewed at a sake brewery, is NT$400 a glass.
Everything can also be opened by the bottle, wine from NT$1,800. The list changes from time to time, so what is open on the night is what counts.
Behind the bar
Liz came to cocktails from wine — a sommelier by training, with time behind the pass at a three-Michelin-star kitchen in Taichung before opening this room. That order of things shows up in the drinks: they are built to sit alongside a conversation and a plate of food, not to arrive first and shout.
Booking a table
There are not many seats. Send us a direct message on Instagram with the date, the time and how many of you there are, and we will keep a sofa. English is fine. Coming on your own is fine too — the bar seats are for exactly that.
Or call +886-4-2301-3255