Deborah Ross

Restaurants | 16 April 2005

The trouble with Bevis Marks is the absence of any Jewish shtick

issue 16 April 2005

I am taking my mother’s cousin Norma and her husband Harry out to lunch and I want them to have a good time, not just because I love Norma to bits but also because… nope, that’s it actually. She used to babysit us when we were little and would make us eat our supper backwards, saying if we didn’t finish our ice-cream there would be no main course, absolutely not, no way, and even though our bedtime was meant to be 8 p.m.

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