Where To Get Your Taco Tuesday On In Malta: The Ultimate Guide
Taco Tuesday has become something of a global institution, and reasonably so. There’s something quietly genius about the concept — small pieces of meat (or whatever your persuasion) wrapped in a tortilla, priced in a way that won’t make you wince at your banking app the next morning. Who knew Malta had more Taco Tuesday options than functional pavements. Before I digress — here’s where to get them.
Taco Bar — St Julian’s
I discovered this place before it even opened and keep going back. It’s the only — and I say this confidently — the only authentic Mexican joint on the island. A cuisine deep in history and so varied, which is constantly being butchered and westernised elsewhere. Not here. You’ll get proper, considered tacos with real corn tortillas and a menu that actually knows what it’s doing.
Every Tuesday, 50% off a portion of three tacos. Choose from Pastor (marinated spit-grilled pork with pineapple), Birria (slow-cooked short rib — the correct answer), Octopus (with bixa Orellana Mayan adobo) or halloumi. Flour tortilla available if you’re feeling gringo.
Taco Bar
George Borg Olivier St
St Julian’s
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La Luz — Sliema
There’s nothing I don’t love about La Luz — a very modern, very special Mexican-inspired cocktail bar with a reliably hedonistic streak. It delivers immaculately on the cocktail front, and the decor earns its reputation: cool artefacts, neon lights, and toilets people genuinely feel compelled to photograph. Loved it since day one. Literally since the day it opened.
Tuesdays from 6pm: four tacos for €10. The menu changes but has included Birria (pulled beef) and Cochinita Pibil (pulled pork) — both the kind that make you nod slowly and say nothing for a moment.
La Luz
139 Tower Road
Sliema
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Hammett’s Mestizo — St Julian’s
Vibrant, swanky but never precious about it. Mestizo flies the flag for Meso-South American cooking — Central America, the Andes, the Amazon, Patagonia — and on Tuesdays that translates into a taco set with fillings that change weekly.
Think short rib, suckling pig, corn tortillas made from scratch using imported fresh Mexican corn. Once you taste the difference, you’ll know. Comes with homemade bases and salsas, and two-for-one margaritas all night.
Hammett’s Mestizo
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Toro Toro — St Julian’s
Get dressed up. This is the glam pan-Latin restaurant from world-renowned Chef Richard Sandoval, and it earns the occasion. Tuesdays from 6pm in the lounge: Mexican-inspired tacos paired with handcrafted margaritas and mezcalitas.
The kitchen selects the tacos and pairs them with premium agave spirits. Refined, considered, and decidedly not street food. Which is entirely the point.
Toro Toro
Mercury Towers
St Julian’s
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LOA — St Paul’s Bay
A swanky South American restaurant and lounge bar in St Paul’s Bay drawing from Argentina, Chile, Peru, Mexico and beyond. Geometric timber panelling, a dark green marble bar, tropical botanicals and a sea terrace that does the heavy lifting on a Tuesday afternoon.
On Tuesdays from 3pm to 7pm, they run a Taco Ritual: five curated taco flavours, 2×1 Mexican cocktails, and optional wine pairings for those who prefer every bite with a glass in hand.
LOA
Triq San Geraldu
St Paul’s Bay
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Norita’s — Mosta
Norita’s wears its love for Mexico and NYC on its sleeve, and on Tuesdays it goes unlimited. €19.99 for as many tacos as you can manage, three per portion. Choose from ground beef, chicken and chorizo, prawn, black bean or slow-cooked pulled beef — most with cheese, pico de gallo, coriander and their own sauces.
Norita’s
Mosta
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Six spots. One day of the week. Consider your Tuesdays sorted.
