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Even if the ultra chic style and all-too-pretty people aren't
your thing, the food should be. Abacus has an eclectic menu with
an interesting mix of Asian (including a sushi menu) and New American
dishes. It's noisy and service is often lacking, but the
dishes often excel.
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Take for instance their dessert "Jungle Fever".
It came with coconut tempura bananas, crispy coconut ice cream,
and pineapple caramel sauce. Yum. There's only one other
place, a Thai restaurant in Eugene, Oregon, where I've had
tempura bananas I truly loved, and this place easily exceeded
those. The bananas had a light, very crisp shell around them with
the fried coconut shavings making the bananas look like some
sort of spiny tropical fruit. They were ultra creamy inside and
the texture contrast was fabulous. The coconut ice cream was
really good, but what made it special was the crispiness that
came from honey-coated puffed rice. The sauce was excellent
as well and made everything better.
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Abacus also does a very good job with meats, adequately seasoning
and searing the exterior giving the cut flavor, but leaving the
inside cooked perfectly, tender and juicy.
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Dishes do come up short here and there, but you're more likely
to get something good than you are to get something okay. One problem,
for me, is that their menu seems to be changing less and less over
time.
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