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Imagine an upscale taqueria; David Garrido did

AUSTIN, Texas — After so many years in so many places, in bustling, swirling kitchens everywhere from Geneva, Switzerland, to Dallas, San Antonio and Austin, this is what it comes to: For the first beat, at the foot of the 360 Condominiums at Third and Nueces streets downtown, a site with the man's name on it.

Garrido's.

It's not the first restaurant David Garrido, 48, has opened, but the stakes seem higher for the upscale taqueria that went busy this month — "cosmopolitan but comfortable," as the former longtime directorate chef at Jeffrey's puts it — because it's his name, his vision through and through. He is well-respected in Austin's culinary community and to a large regarded as one of the best chefs in Texas. He has done as much as anybody — by any chance more than you even know — to make Austin a better dining-out burgh. Talk to current and former colleagues and they'll tell you the man has an incredible palate and an indefatigable passion, and he says as much himself.

Source: Houston Chronicle

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