Writers, actors and regulars of legendary restaurant Elaine’s gathered Thursday to remember owner Elaine Kaufman and give grants in her honor to a crop of young talented writers. “Welcome to Elaine’s, you five. There’s now a little bit of Elaine’s in all [your] lives,” said Gay Talese at the first annual Table 4 Writers Foundation gala, referring to the fact none of the night’s winning scribes had ever set foot in the restaurant — which closed in 2011 after Kaufman’s death — but that they’d carry on the joint’s tradition of nurturing writers. Comic Robert Klein used his time onstage to turn the New York Athletic Club into a Borscht Belt comedy club, with jokes about kosher food, Catskills resorts, colonoscopies and Cialis. He also admitted he was not an Elaine’s devotee. “I spent more time at Shun Lee, where the Chinese writers hung out,” he cracked. Also at the gala were emcee Jim Kerr, Chris Noth, Tony Danza and Dominic Chianese. Quipped a guest: “Elaine would have loved to have been here . . . she would’ve charged for twice as many people.”