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"Seafood plateau?? A bad translation of "plateau de mer", which is just a seafood platter?

"Plateau de mer" is not seafood platter. Seafood platter is "plateau de fruits de mer".

"Plateau de mer" could be "seabed plateau" but I am not an oceanographer so I fo not know what words they use (but strictly from the perspective of French language it is plausible)

It would be “plateau marin”, not “plateau de mer”. “Plateau de mer” does sound like a seafood restaurant special.

"Plateau de fruits de mer" is proper, but shortened in cooking practice.

Ah, I learned something then. I found a few references in Google indeed.

French here, asked the frenchies around me. Nobody thinks "plateau de mer" is an obvious shorthand for "plateau de fruit de mer". We have never heard that one. And we sure eat seafood platters on the regular.

Of course not. It's not correct.

Instagram hype for a San Francisco hipster restaurant, though...[1]

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/C02IZeEyMPE/

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