
The real Restaurant Girl (Photo courtesy of the New York Daily News)
Though we’re generally against public ridicule here at the Feed, we couldn’t help but applaud notice the pretty hilarious lampooning of the rookie Daily News food critic, Danyelle Freeman (a.k.a. Restaurant Girl), by Fake Restaurant Girl (a.k.a. Adam Robb) on Twitter. Although Ms. Freeman’s lawyers have also been tracking Mr. Robb’s amusingly fluffy impersonations, it seems that the cease-and-desist notices haven’t done much good. In the Feed inbox this morning: a link not to a fake Freeman Twitter feed, but to a full-on website that impersonates, with a touch of bile, the one that made Ms. Freeman famous. See lowlights highlights after the jump.
In time for Taste of Tribeca, the fake RG interviews one of the organizers, Jimmy Carbone. Though we enjoyed some of the sillier moments (”Do you think being named after two foods, jimmies and pasta carbonara, that working with food was inevitable?”), some of the ditzier ones (”I needed to help mankind with free publicity for a good cause”) and those with a grain of truth (”…so I made myself recognizable to restaurateur Jimmy Carbone”), we can’t help but wonder when the fun will end and the teasing will just start getting cruel (”now I eat in the spotlight so the dishes I review can shine bright like they’re my accessories”). Oh wait…that already happened.









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