To me places like Earls, Joey and Cactus Club are generally somewhere I know I can count on fairly good food and decent service. My last trip to JOEY chinook we had a really lovely server, he split our ravioli on two separate plates (as we wanted to share) without having to ask and even placed the prawns on my friends dish as I had mentioned I didn't want them and my friend would just be picking them all off the dish.
JOEY is just consistent in my mind and I like that.