Restaurateur Ken Friedman is not interested in buying Elaine’s. The owner of The Spotted Pig, The Breslin and the John Dory Oyster Bar was said to be partnering with Graydon Carter and Patroon’s Ken Aretsky to take over the Upper East Side watering hole, to close Thursday following the death of Elaine Kaufman in December. But Friedman told us, “They asked me to get involved in buying Elaine’s. I said I was not interested. I never even go that far uptown, and the only time I went to Elaine’s — 10 years ago — she threw me out because my cellphone rang. And the food was inedible. I love Graydon and want to do something with him, but certainly not Elaine’s.” Instead, we hear Friedman’s mulling a partnership in Carter and Jeff Klein‘s Monkey Bar, turning it into a culinary destination and taking over from original partner Jeremy King, who has parted ways. Friedman had no comment on the Monkey Bar.