Why you should experience Chihuahua Tacos in Milan, Italy.
Chihuahua Tacos is a vivid Mexican bar where Ticinese's canal-side social culture meets Alessandro Longhin's Guadalajara childhood, contemporary taqueria cooking and a design concept rooted in the saturated architecture of Luis Barragán.
Set along Piazza Ventiquattro Maggio near Corso di Ticinese and just steps from the Darsena, the restaurant occupies a southern Milan crossroads historically shaped by canal commerce, markets and the grand gateway into the city. Orange and pink established the original visual scheme, drawing directly on Barragán's treatment of intense color in Mexican architecture and carrying that reference through a compact room organized around a substantial bar. The 2026 redesign shifted the setting toward a more mature Mexican Bar, using controlled lighting, contemporary finishes and a dramatically expanded back bar to place agave spirits deeper into the physical experience. Fifty seats preserve the concentrated proportions of the original taqueria even as the evening operation now extends well beyond quick street food. The result is a Ticinese restaurant where Mexican architectural references and the Darsena's evening energy support a format that has grown considerably since its first tacos were served in 2019.
What you should know about Chihuahua Tacos.
Chihuahua Tacos is best known for translating founder Alessandro Longhin's early childhood in Guadalajara into a Milan taqueria project developed with chef Samuele Luè and launched in September 2019. Longhin had already built The Botanical Club, Champagne Socialist and Forno Collettivo, projects spanning gin distillation, natural wine and bread, when extensive travel led him toward a format then underrepresented in Milan. Ilaria Puddu assisted with the original launch, and Longhin deliberately separated the venture from his previous partnership with Davide Martelli, giving Chihuahua Tacos an independent foundation. Luè became executive chef and later gastronomic lead, joining Longhin as the operation expanded to Paolo Sarpi in June 2021 and developed into a multi-location brand. Cocktail specialist Dom Carella subsequently collaborated on cocktails served on tap, extending Longhin's earlier drinks experience into the Mexican format through tequila and mezcal. The original operation entered its largest reinvention in 2026 under Longhin, Luè and Michele Bedin, evolving from contemporary tacos bar into a broader Mexican Bar centered equally on cooking and agave culture. Simone Filoni took responsibility for a spirits collection extending beyond tequila and mezcal into raicilla, bacanora and sotol, creating a range sourced across different Mexican regions, agave species and production traditions. Gambero Rosso included Chihuahua Tacos among Milan's leading Mexican addresses in 2026, connecting the project's current maturity with the citywide emergence of more specialized Mexican cooking seven years after Longhin's original opening.
The Pastor begins with corn tortillas and pork cooked vertically on the trompo, then house guacamole, red and green salsas, onion and coriander build fat, acidity, heat and freshness around the meat. Suadero moves toward beef brisket with Mexican barbecue sauce and a crisp chip crumble, giving the softer meat a pronounced textural break. Camarones introduces charred prawns, miso-lime mayonnaise and mango pico, bringing smoke, salinity, citrus and fruit into the same compact format. California uses rib eye marinated with chile California alongside lime mayonnaise, pico de gallo, avocado and Chihuahua cheese, and Carnita pairs pork leg with salsa roja, coriander, radish and pickled jalapeños. Tuna tostada shifts onto a fried corn base with raw tuna in ponzu, avocado, fried onion, coriander, chives and pickled radish before Oyster Maria combines an oyster, Tajín and tequila with a prawn-and-Bloody-Maria shot. Agave provides the natural drinking counterpart through tequila, mezcal, raicilla, bacanora and sotol, turning tacos and spirits into parallel introductions to Mexican regional ingredients and techniques.
How to fold Chihuahua Tacos into your trip.
Chihuahua Tacos works as the dining endpoint for an exploration of Ticinese that follows the district from Renaissance canal engineering through Napoleonic urban transformation into one of Milan's most substantial surviving assemblies of Roman architectural fragments.
Begin at Conca di Viarenna, where Filippo Maria Visconti ordered a navigation lock in 1438 to overcome the two-meter difference between the Darsena and Milan's inner canal system, allowing boats carrying Candoglia marble toward the Duomo works to negotiate the change in elevation. Construction of the Spanish walls destroyed that first structure, and the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo rebuilt the surviving lock between 1551 and 1558, preserving a physical remnant of the hydraulic network that carried building stone into Central Milan. Continue to Ticinese, reconstructed between 1801 and 1814 from Luigi Cagnola's design after Napoleon's victory at Marengo, with 85 property owners participating in the subscription that financed the project. Cagnola created a triumphal gateway in pink Baveno granite using a Vitruvian Ionic order, initially known as Porta Marengo; after the Napoleonic wars, the inscription Paci populorum sospitae recast its political message around the restoration of peace. Conclude at Colonne di San Lorenzo, where sixteen Corinthian marble columns and ancient architectural fragments were assembled before the basilica after being removed from a substantial Roman building dating to the second century. Their present arrangement incorporates medieval work from the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and the surrounding buildings were cleared during the twentieth century to expose the ancient colonnade and basilica across an open piazza. The progression moves from a fifteenth-century hydraulic intervention created for the Duomo works through Cagnola's Napoleonic reconstruction of Milan's southern gateway into the reuse of imperial Roman architecture at San Lorenzo, tracing successive periods in which Ticinese connected infrastructure, political representation and the physical fabric of the city.
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