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The Roots Club is a luxury restaurant and catering hall in Gaza.
The restaurant offers an elegant 16 page menu such upscale dishes as Sole meunière, Baked sea bass with garlic sauce, Deep fried calimari, Veal Scaloppine, Steak au poivre, Chateaubriand steak with Béarnaise sauce, and Fettuccine alfredo.
The restaurant was brought to world attention by British journalist Tom Gross and by the Israeli Government Press Office.
Tom Gross posted a photo essay aobut the luxury restaurant on his web page, alleging that “The manipulative agenda of the BBC and other foreign media agencies,” creates a false picture of conditions in Gaza and is “deliberately misleading global audiences and systematically creating the false impression that people are somehow starving in Gaza, and that it is all Israel’s fault.”
The Government Press Office was inspired by Gross's dispatch to send an email to journalists reading: "In anticipation of foreign correspondents traveling to Gaza to cover reports of alleged humanitarian difficulties in the Hamas-run territory, and as part of efforts to facilitate the work of journalists in the region, the Government Press Office is pleased to bring to your attention the attached menu and information for the Roots Club and Restaurant in Gaza... We have been told the beef stroganoff and cream of spinach soup are highly recommended."