[1] Mul Yam was established in 1995 by Shalom Maharovsky, its current owner; the chef is Yoram Nitzan.

The restaurant specializes in seafood and fish, which are mainly imported from different parts of the world, and a few meat and vegetarian dishes.

[4] It was chosen as one of the ten best restaurants in Israel by Sagi Cohen, Maariv (newspaper) food critic.

[10] In episode 14 of the sixth season of the American TV series The Office, "The Banker", manager Michael Scott is attempting to impress an investment banker by having Dwight Schrute pretend to be Computron, an advanced office virtual assistant.

When Scott states that Cooper's Seafood has the best Maine lobster in the world, Schrute as Computron disputes this, saying Mul Yam's is better.