Broken tiles at Mexico City taco restaurant
Los Alexis is a modest taqueria located in Mexico City’s Roma Norte neighborhood. The compact interior was designed by local architecture group RA!, drawing inspiration from Latin American art deco design with Broken tiles.
A taqueria serving tacos, called Los Alexis, is located in Mexico City’s renowned Roma neighborhood. Also, it is home to several notable art deco buildings.
The single, 15-square-meter restaurant, which is located inside a former beer vault, was designed by RA! with inspiration from the “vibrant personality” of the neighborhood.
Pedro Ramírez de Aguilar, co-founder and designer of the studio, stated that “one of our client’s most important requests was for this tiny space to shine among the rest of the retail premises on the street.”
As an homage to Barcelona, where chef Alexis Ayala spent time training, RA! covered the walls and floors in a unique mosaic of shattered ceramic tiles with green joints, the designer revealed to Dezeen.
The open kitchen sits to the right of the modest open room, with a curved bar completed in slabs of ribbed green material.
Throughout the restaurant, practical materials—like broken tiles—were selected for their “endurance and fast cleaning processes”.
The bar features white-painted breakfast-style steel stools and a steel surface that was chosen. According to Ramírez de Aguilar, because it is resistant to grease.
The ancient, peeling ceiling of the room was retained by the studio “to create a wider contrast [within the eatery] and to remember the old premises.”
Unofficial rows of seats the patio where patrons of the taqueria can eat and mingle outside.
The bar and kitchen of Los Alexis are what intentionally set it apart from the small bathroom at the back.
“Typical ‘changarros’ [small shops] in Mexico City are all about the conversation with the cookers. So we tried to have this interaction between people as a main objective,” Ramirez de Aguilar said.
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