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Highlights: sea-bream tartare with avocado and mango, lobster washed down with the superb Domaine des Campaux house ros from Bormes-les-Mimosas, and creme brul
Seductive St. Tropez 2010
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The funny part of it was that all they caught were goruki; of sea-bream there was not a sign.
Botchan (Master Darling) Soseki Natsume 1891
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A number of small parrot-fish, sea-bream, and mottled cod at once appeared and devoured the fragments.
Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Louis Becke 1884
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From the raw bar, "Chef's sashimi" 15 pieces, £28 was three thick slices each of bass, mackerel, scallop, salmon and sea-bream, served with home-made wasabi but no ginger - fresh, not bad but not exciting, a British let-down.
Evening Standard - Home David Sexton 2011
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From the raw bar, "Chef's sashimi" 15 pieces, £28 was three thick slices each of bass, mackerel, scallop, salmon and sea-bream, served with home-made wasabi but no ginger - fresh, not bad but not exciting, a British let-down.
Evening Standard - Home David Sexton 2011
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Mr Banks and Dr Solander went on board this vessel; in which they found eleven men, nine of whom were blacks; they all fished with lines, and their fresh cargo, the chief part of which Mr Banks bought, consisted of dolphins, large pelagic scombers of two kinds, sea-bream, and some of the fish which in the West Indies are called Welshmen.
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The principal fish we caught by the seine were mullets and elephant fish, with a few soles and flounders; but those that the natives mostly supplied us with were a sort of sea-bream, of a silver colour, with a black spot on the neck, large conger eels, and a fish in shape much like the bream, but so large as to weigh five, six, or seven pounds.
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We had no sooner come to an anchor, than we tried our lines, and in a short time caught near one hundred fish, which the people called sea-bream; they weighed from six to eight pounds a piece, and consequently would supply the whole ship's company with food for two days.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 Robert Kerr 1784
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Soon after, it fell calm; and being in forty-two fathom water, the people caught a few sea-bream.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 Robert Kerr 1784
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The venue is food and game-focused with main dishes such as confit of duck with honey-roasted fall apples (£13.50) and fillet of sea-bream with brown shrimp and caper butter
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