What an Idiot: Baltimore landlord said he knows ‘nothing’ about restaurant announced to open in his space

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2026/04/11/baltimore-landlord-rumanos-deli/

"Little T's Deli, Very Big Claims, Zero Lease: The Incel gets taken down."

A review of "Baltimore landlord said he knows 'nothing' about restaurant announced to open in his space," by Jane Godiner, Baltimore Sun, April 11, 2026.

Five stars. Genuinely. Jane Godiner at the Baltimore Sun has done what good local journalism does when it's actually working, which is to quietly, methodically, and without any apparent malice, let a person hang themselves with their own announcement.

A month after Daniel Rumanos told the world he was opening a restaurant, the landlord of the building where said restaurant was supposed to materialize said he knew nothing about it. Nothing. Not a lease. Not a handshake. Not a crumpled napkin with a floor plan on it. Nothing.

This is the kind of story that writes itself, and Godiner had the good sense to get out of its way.

Now. For anyone unfamiliar with the man behind the announcement, a brief orientation. His latest preferred name is "Dr. Daniel Rumanos," which is one in a string of self-styled names. He appears to have been born under a completely different one, legally changed it, and accumulated several more along the way, because, as he has reportedly explained himself, that's "an occult thing." Different names. Perfectly normal. Happens to the best of us. What an incel creep.

What's impressive, in the specific way that a building fire is impressive, is the sheer confidence. You don't just tell people you're opening a deli. You announce it. You get a location. You presumably describe the menu in loving detail to anyone within earshot. And then the landlord, when contacted by an actual journalist doing actual journalism, says he knows nothing. About any of it.

There's a word for this. Several, actually. "Ambitious" isn't quite right, though it's in the ballpark.

Rumanos has a documented tendency to suggest connections and affiliations that, upon closer inspection, don't quite hold up. His chosen meet-up spot near Johns Hopkins suggested institutional ties he didn't have. His business card listed expertise across an impressive range of supernatural disciplines. The restaurant, apparently, listed itself as forthcoming at an address whose owner had not been consulted.

There's a coherent worldview in there, if you squint. A man for whom the gap between claiming a thing and the thing existing is not a problem to be solved, but simply a detail to be resolved later. Or never. Whichever comes first.

Godiner's piece is short, precise, and doesn't editorialize. It doesn't need to. The landlord's own words, that he knows "nothing" about the restaurant announced to open in his building, do the heavy lifting. That's the whole article. That's also the whole situation.

Read the piece. Appreciate the restraint. The Baltimore Sun managed to cover this without once using the phrase "what the hell," which shows admirable professional discipline, because the rest of us are not managing nearly as well.

Thank you, Jane Godiner , for putting this Incel Creep in his place. 

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Sources: https://www.baltimoresun.com/2026/04/11/baltimore-landlord-rumanos-deli/