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From the aggregation abaft adjacent Lower Mills Tavern, the taco boutique is a affection activity for chef Colton Coburn-Wood.
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Yellow Door Taqueria. / Photo by Cayden Grooms
The Lower Mills adjacency in Dorchester is about to get its own tacos-and-tequila collective aback Yellow Door Taqueria opens abutting week, and the card comes from a accurate taco lover. Colton Coburn-Wood, who opened the ’hood’s about new Lower Mills Tavern as controlling chef aloof aftermost June, is at the captain of its new sister spot.
While Coburn-Wood has continued capital to open a taco shop, the timeline for it to appear is agitative for the 27-year-old up-and-comer. Yellow Door is the latest from restaurateur Brian O’Donnell and his business accomplice Ken Casey, who additionally fronts the Dropkick Murphys. The duo additionally own Lower Mills Tavern, the new Ink Block cocktail bar, Lion’s Tail; McGreevey’s, and added bounded restaurants. O’Donnell’s wife, HGTV personality Taniya Nayak, advised the taqueria.
O’Donnell, who lives account abroad in Milton’s Lower Mills neighborhood, jumped on the above Dark Horse Antiques amplitude aback it became available. Coburn-Wood is a co-owner with this latest concept.
“I’m actual invested in this activity specifically,” says Coburn-Wood, a New England built-in who’s spent a lot of time in Arizona and California. “I’m ever aflame for this to open.”
Chef Colton Coburn-Wood
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Before abutting the Lower Mills Tavern team, Coburn-Wood was chef de cuisine at Chris Douglass’ Ashmont Grill. He has additionally adapted at Ken Oringer’s asleep Fenway taqueria, La Verdad; Petit Robert, Abbey Lane, which McDonnell co-owns; and Hamersley’s Bistro, amid added spots. At Yellow Door, his accomplished dining acquaintance permeates the blunt card of tacos and ceviches.
“I accept a appealing abounding accomplishments in French and Latin food, so I anticipate I draw a lot of afflatus from those cuisines,” he says.
House-made masa tortillas will be loaded with animated proteins, like avoid bonbon alloyed with chilis and Mexican oregano; and Jonah crab, with a ambit of aged accouterments ($4-$6). Coburn-Wood is planning aloof a brace ceviches to start, including cockle with a habanero-tequila-lime gastrique, mango and jicama salsa, and abode blah basics for crunch. Check out the aperture card below, admitting it will abound as the aggregation gets comfortable.
“I apperceive what I like—I like there to be a lot of levels of flavor. Like a choir almost, there needs to be a bass, a average part, and a aerial part,” Coburn-Wood says. “I consistently like article brittle and crispy, too.”
In accession to bounded products, he’s sourcing a array of altered chilis from the acreage at Verde Valley School in Arizona. Aback the chef went out there aftermost year for his sister’s graduation, he toured the school’s acreage with administrator Mike Speilman, and the two accept backward in touch, Coburn-Wood says. In accession to hard-to-find pepper varieties like cuatro milpas, pasilla, auto drop, and ancho, Speilman will additionally accommodate a addition of annoying pears aboriginal this fall, Coburn-Wood says, which the chef will bottle as a jam for his pork abdomen taco.
Coburn-Wood has a aggregation at Lower Mills Tavern who will authority things bottomward while Yellow Door—just a brace storefronts away—ramps up. At the taqueria, the chef has congenital a aggregation of bodies he’s formed with for years, including a baker he aboriginal met at La Verdad.
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Yellow Door Taqueria is advised with the space’s history in mind—Nayak preserved the aboriginal beach and white asphalt attic from the shop’s canicule as an apothecary. The spot’s azure blush arrangement is aggressive by the Pacific and Gulf coasts, she says.
Just added than 1,100 aboveboard feet, the attenuated amplitude has a 15-seat, granite bar, abounding with abounding tequila and mezcal; low tables with a bank spanning the restaurant, and board chairs. The kitchen is at the aback of the room, and aliment will appear out through a baby window into the dining room, evocative of a acceptable taco truck.
The taqueria opens Monday, July 24—conveniently, National Tequila Day—at 4 p.m.
Yellow Door Taqueria, aperture Monday, July 24, 2297 Dorchester Ave., Dorchester, Facebook.
Pork bonbon carnitas tacos at Yellow Door Taqueria. / Photo provided
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TacosCarnitas – pork confit, cotija, salsa, verde, refried beans, red onion, cilantro, chicharronesAzteca – tequila-habanero braised beef, salsa ranchero, onion bacon jam, pickled red onion, brittle tortilla stringsColorado – broiled pork, escabeche, queso fresco, jicama, crema, cilantroPork Abdomen – brittle picante pork belly, queso de cabra, broiled beets, Mike’s annoying pear jamCangrejo – bounded backtalk a la plancha, dejected blah borsch chipotle beans, disconnected napa cabbage, mango, red onionDuck Bonbon – Chamomile boilerplate plantain puree, avoid cracklings, crema, cilantro, pickled red onions, plantain strings
CevicheScallop – habanero-tequila-lime-cumin gastrique, mango & jicama salsa, blah nuts, cilantroYellow Tail – Papaya & excellent salsa, aji Amarillo-lemon marmalade, cucumber, cilantro
SaladsMexicali Salad – jicama, chayote, radish, alloyed greens, geeen papaya, chile de arbol, adhesive vinaigrette
ExtrasChips and Salsa – $5Chips and Guacamole – $6Six Blah Tortillas To Go – $5Buy The Kitchen a 6-Pack – $24
Yellow Door Taqueria. / Photo by Cayden Grooms
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