I stopped by here 2 nights ago with my wife and her parents for dinner during restaurant week. After looking over a number of different restaurant week menus Chaz & Odettes looked the best. So I called them up to make reservations and secured a table for 7:30. Our party actually ended up arriving about 15 minutes early. We stood in the doorway for a bit before being greeted and ultimately being taken to our table. The inside of Chaz and Odettes isn't very big with a bar on the left side of the restaurant and a number of tables on the right.
For dinner on this evening I decided to go with the carnivore pre fixe menu. I chose the brisket three ways for my appetizer, the sirloin steak with hobo bacon for my entree and the palmier for my dessert. The brisket came out on a chopping block with some cheeses and a side of sourdough bread which resembled a pita. I would say that I enjoyed both the corned beef and pastrami versions of the brisket while I didn't care much for the third, the smoked brisket. It's odd because my wife had the brisket as part of her meal and it was really good. I did really enjoy ripping up the bread and putting the meat in it like a sandwich. After we had finished with our appetizers our entrees came out. My sirloin steak was topped with the mushrooms, onions and hobo bacon (Canadian bacon?) as mentioned on the menu and came with some roasted potatoes and the fresh picked vegetables which was a half an ear of corn with mayo on it. I dug into the steak first which I had ordered medium. Sadly it was extremely overcooked to the point that I think calling it well done would have been generous although it wasnt burnt. Due to that it was the driest and worst steak that I have had in a long time. Thankfully the toppings for it were tasty but didn't do much to add moisture to it. I was similarly disappointed with the potatoes and corn both of which were ok but neither of which I would order again. Last but not least was dessert which for me consisted of a palmier along with vanilla pastry cream and blueberries and raspberries. I first broke the palmier in half and tried it on its own. It was hard and didn't have much taste to it so I added some pastry cream and fruit which made it taste good. Weirdly the other side of the palmier was quite good as instead of being hard it was flaky and gave off a caramel flavor.
The bottom line for me is that I probably wouldn't head back to Chaz and Odettes in the future. Much like the palmier, some of the food that I had was pretty good, some of it also was not. Due to that inconsistency I don't really see a reason to come back.