Finally made it there, and the food was definitely up to the standards of the north location. Service was maybe one tick slow, but perfectly adequate. They did spend alot of ordering time trying to upsell (soups, salads, fries, etc), and bringing the wine-by-the-glass bottles to the table for tastes was inefficient, but that's nitpicking. With an empty restaurant, they tried to seat our party of six at a booth that held perhaps four-and-a-half, but every place does that. Of course you lose the "homey" atmosphere of the original, but the food will keep us coming back.