Garrido’s Opens Downtown at 360 Nueces

David Garrido is one of the Austin culinary heavyweights: he walks in that rarified air of David Bull, Tyson Cole, Jeff Blank, Elmar Prambs and other serious players.

So we welcome him, after many years at Jeffrey’s and other exotic ports of call, to the new Garrido’s, a kind of upscale Taqueria at 360 Nueces.

The number is 320-8226 and the web is garridosaustin.com.

As usual, the initial reviews on the user-generated websites are out in abundance and almost useless: they range from the absurdly hideous to the ridiculously sublime: hence, essentially useless to a reader trying to decide.

You go to a place like this because of the reputation of the owner: then you give it a couple of months to settle in before you start hurling the uniformed invectives. Then you post your review, which I will do at that point.