Other than neon lights outside reading "Taiwan" in Chinese, the building occupied by the Formosa is an undistinguished single-storey block, on the corner where Formosa Street meets Santa Monica Boulevard.
位於西好萊塢市聖塔蒙尼加大道和福爾摩沙街交口的台灣酒家，是一幢一層樓的小平房，除了屋側用霓虹燈管圈寫的「台灣」二個中文字，實在平凡不過。