“Ze Spot.” That’s the informal name of Il Posto Accanto, a cramped, eccentric little restaurant that has occupied a storefront on East Second Street between Avenues A and B since the 1990s. It’s a nod, this nickname, to the thick Roman accent of the restaurant’s chef and co-pilot, Beatrice Tosti di Valminuta. Bea’s husband, Julio Pena, runs the front of the house and is known to his wife as “Babycakes.” Il Posto Accanto offers some of the best food and street theater that New York City has to offer. If you’ve ever wanted to eat superior house-made pasta and drink excellent Italian wine while living temporarily in a Jim Jarmusch film, this is your place. —David Kamp