In 1834, two entrepreneurs, H.M. Belanger and R.H. Grinage, donated ample sites for a courthouse and other aminities to the Terrebonne Parish government in what was to become the town of Houma.

Grinage bought out his partner's interests and laid out lots around the courthouse property. On the original map, lot No. 9 is the site where Café Milano and Aficionados are situated today.

For nearly 100 years, a livery stable and feed store owned by Holden Wright and his heirs occupied this site. In the late 1920s, that frame building was raised, and the present brick structure was erected for a feed store where the restaurant is now located.

Aficionados once housed the offices of the Community Homestead Association (eventually absorbed by Teche Federal Savings Bank) and the Montegut Insurance Company. The Wright family still owns the building.

Since the 1990s, this has been the location of a succession of restaurants, beginning with John Hardeman's Il Giardino. The late Parish Attorney Steve Larussa acquired the restaurant, renamed it Café Milano, and added Aficionados. Michel Claudet took over the operation in 2001.