Fish-Eating Sea Cow?

By jjacquet on October 16, 2007.

I just passed this seafood restaurant in London called The Sea Cow. Business must be good because The Sea Cow's interior is being remodeled, which meant that I could not stop in to inquire why they would name a fish bar after the only vegetarian mammal in the sea.

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