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"Although it hadn’t represented the best in Dallas cuisine for years, we still lost a dining icon when Abacus closed its doors in June; conceived by chef Kent Rathbun—who left the restaurant after nearly 18 years in 2016 and later became embroiled in a protracted legal battle with his business partners over the right to use his own name—the restaurant’s messy demise belies an influence on Dallas’s dining scene that can hardly be quantified." - Amy McCarthy