Vendleys, why have you forsaken us? (Photo: Lizz Kuehl)

Once in a while, either via phone, letter or e-mail, we get spanked by an angry reader (the most pissed off are usually the vegetarians—sorry, guys, it’s true). Today, the Feed was the recipient of an irate call from a peer who shall remain unnamed. TONY vending cart story in hand, he marched down to the corner of Prince and Wooster to get him some Calexico carne asada, only to be greeted by…nothing. Read more »

Photograph: Lizz Kuehl

The Feed isn’t above street eating: dirty water dogs, La Cense burgers, the Greene Ice Cream…hell, if it tastes good, we’d eat it in the bathroom. (Well, maybe not, but you get the picture…)

Hence, in a time of great mobile food expansion, we thought we’d share the best in the city, from the old guard to a new generation armed with Twitter feeds and (gasp!) business plans.

Great!, you think, but must I keep checking several different Twitter feeds to find out who’s around the corner? No, you do not: We’ve set up Mobile Feed NYC on Twitter, which collects all their feeds in one place for your convenience (and ours).

Last night at the Beard Awards gala, the Feed solicited guest tweets from the evening’s victors. Though we longed for some Cuba Gooding Jr.–style outbursts, the winners were mostly poised and humble, and thanked all the right people (see what they had to say here). There’s always next year…

Of course we’ll be hooking you up with a full, juicy blog post later today on David Chang’s “secret” free lunch stint for NBC, under way right now in a restaurant-supply store parking lot on Lafayette Street downtown. Until then, check out our Twitter page for live, up-to-the-moment dispatches and pieces of color from the scene.

Thanks to this little tip from the fine folks at Eater, we now have something to look forward to this weekend:

We have to agree, William Tigertt. It sounds absolutely delicious.

If you follow our Twitter feed, you might notice throughout the course of the day tweets of a different color.  That’s because, in a feat of space and time, The Feed has managed to be in two places at once. Eat Out staffer Jordana Rothman is sending 140-character-or-fewer dispatches from Hyde Park, New York, where El Bulli chef Ferran Adrià is currently lecturing students, and later today, giving a very rare hands-on cooking demonstration at the Culinary Institute of America. Tomorrow he’ll be honored at Cipriani in NYC with an Augie Award, also a CIA shindig. It’s an Adrià extravaganza, people! Look out for tweets throughout the today, and a full report tomorrow.

Yes, that time is drawing near: Possibly the most glamorous night of the foodie year, the James Beard Awards. This year, the foundation has let The Feed in on a couple of firsts: The JBF will be offering an “early bird special,” granting a $50 discount for member and general admission tickets to the May 4 awards gala at Lincoln Center purchased between March 23 and April 3. The ticket price this year is the same as last: $450 for general admission, $400 if you are a member. What that gets you is access to some of the country’s top chefs and samples of their wares, plus some mighty find hooch, at the postceremony taste-around. For rabid foodies, it might very well be worth the price tag. Come Monday, get your ticket here.

Plus, the increasingly tech-savvy foundation will Twitter the award results in real time. (Follow them here.) This year’s nominees will be announced on March 23 at Frontera Grill in Chicago (for now, see the semifinalists).

That’s all for now, folks. Stay tuned for more JBF news…

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.

No, we couldn’t help ourselves, and yes, we are that immature.