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  • The menu features simple dishes such as white-fish ceviche ($16) and tortilla soup ($10), along with more elaborate entrees, including carne asada with grilled cactus leaf ($15) and mole poblano chicken ($14).

    Colibri Mexican Bistro 2010

  • The menu features simple dishes such as white-fish ceviche ($16) and tortilla soup ($10), along with more elaborate entrees, including carne asada with grilled cactus leaf ($15) and mole poblano chicken ($14).

    Colibri Mexican Bistro 2010

  • The menu features simple dishes such as white-fish ceviche ($16) and tortilla soup ($10), along with more elaborate entrees, including carne asada with grilled cactus leaf ($15) and mole poblano chicken ($14).

    Colibri Mexican Bistro 2010

  • The menu features simple dishes such as white-fish ceviche ($16) and tortilla soup ($10), along with more elaborate entrees, including carne asada with grilled cactus leaf ($15) and mole poblano chicken ($14).

    Colibri Mexican Bistro 2010

  • As I clickity-clacked during a dinner party my sister, Dorothy, made that included a delicious flaky white-fish with a sort of basil/garlic/pineapple jam mixture, finished under the broiler, I kept my eye out for the familiar signs of TV show decline.

    Jane McGivney: Top Chef: The Cored Apple of Doom 2008

  • I told him I didn't like Big Toro the super fatty kind and that I like clams, mollusks, and white-fish.

    Archive 2006-09-01 2006

  • I told him I didn't like Big Toro the super fatty kind and that I like clams, mollusks, and white-fish.

    Bay Area Upscale Sushi Search 2006

  • Oviparous fishes have their womb bifurcate and placed low down, as was said previously-and, by the way, all scaly fish are oviparous, as the basse, the mullet, the grey mullet, and the etelis, and all the so-called white-fish, and all the smooth or slippery fish except the eel-and their roe is of a crumbling or granular substance.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • Truth compels us to add, however, that our salmon of the Lakes is inferior to his kinsman of the salt water; though, as in the case of the white-fish, he has been slandered by ignorant people, such as newspaper letter-writers, and the like.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

  • It is a very handsome and game fish, and is the king, or tyrant, of the water, devouring without mercy everything smaller than itself; though its favorite food is the white-fish, which, perhaps, accounts for the superior flavor of this huge pike, which is one of the very best of fresh-water fishes.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

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