Eater kicked off the NYC Wine & Food Festival a few weeks early at Marisa and Tony May’s soon-to-open SD26 last night. Serious chef porn in attendance. [Eater]

Ken Friedman issues a dignified mea culpa about the untimely shuttering of the John Dory. [Grub Street]

The owners of Bernie Madoff’s favorite fish shack, Lure, will take over the street-level dining room at Chinatown Brasserie this December. [Citysearch]

Restaurant Girl—the real one—interviews Andrew Carmellini. Of Locanda Verde’s success in the former Ago space he says, “This place just needed some love. [Restaurant Girl]

Adam Robb wears many hats

In late August the news broke that controversial Daily News food critic Restaurant Girl (née Danyelle Freeman) would file her final review. RG, as she’s known in these parts, suffered many a hater during her two-year stint—and one bizarro admirer. We caught up with blogger Adam Robb of the Life Vicarious and Eat Me Daily—who parodied the critic’s florid food writing on Twitter under the name @restaurantgirl—over IM last week. Presented for your enjoyment: The faux RG exit interview.

The Feed: What an arc, huh, RG?
RestaurantgirlDF: I know, the rain today! We need one.

You joined some lofty ranks when you were hired at the Daily News. Was the experience everything you hoped for?
I thought I would have made a bigger impact on the quality of their vending machines. But my time there was an honor, you know I was the only actress from The Sopranos ever to have their own weekly column in a national newspaper. Read more »

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. Read more »

We at The Feed were also a bit curious about so-called Restaurant Girl’s loopy posts on Twitter. Now that the myth has been outed and we know that Ms. Danyelle Freeman did not write “The del in La Fonda del Sol is for DELICIOUS, if you catch my ‘drift’,” we are observing another development in play: New York Times dining editor Pete Wells and fake RG exchanging complements:

Well, we thought it was amusing.