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 ❋ Unknown (2010)
The funny part of it was that all they caught were goruki; of sea-bream there was not a sign. ❋ Soseki Natsume (1891)
A number of small parrot-fish, sea-bream, and mottled cod at once appeared and devoured the fragments. ❋ Louis Becke (1884)
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. ❋ David Sexton (2011)
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. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
Soon after, it fell calm; and being in forty-two fathom water, the people caught a few sea-bream. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
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. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
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. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
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 ❋ Unknown (2010)
A crisped, fresh sea-bream fillet served on a spoonful of tangy tomato couscous and velvety wilted spinach is more good value at just £8.50. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As yet I've been unable to identify exactly which caves these are, but it's curious to see the sea-bream raise its glistening head once more in the Palaeolithic, and on the same Iberian peninsular, albeit hundreds of miles away to the north of Gibraltar, and a good 12,000-14,000 years later. ❋ Unknown (2008)
(sea-bream) because his face suggested a fish; by way of more cruel sobriquet they had christened him the "Barrack hack." ❋ P��o Baroja (1914)
