February 16, 2017 — Something fishy was going on at Odeum in Morgan Hill, Santa Clara County officials suspected.
The upscale restaurant — a big fish in the Morgan Hill restaurant scene, helmed and owned by a chef with a Michelin star — was serving tilapia in place of the petrale sole listed on the menu for a period of more than a year, an investigation by the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office alleged. A spokesperson for Odeum declined to comment.
Now, according to a civil judgment announced Wednesday, the restaurant must pay $120,000 — $30,000 in restitution and $90,000 in civil penalties — and offer a $30 gift card to any customer who ordered sole at Odeum between October 2014 and March 2016 and files a claims form by May 31, the Santa Clara district attorney’s office announced Wednesday.