"Of all the things one can get at an Italian restaurant, we don’t know if we’ve ever been dying to order the spaghetti pomodoro. But if there’s anywhere to eat your rent-week favorite in public, it’s Cafe Spaghetti, where a simple tomato sauce on handmade pasta is surprisingly rich and buttery. This restaurant also has one of the best backyards in Brooklyn—complete with a decorative baby blue Vespa and limoncello-colored umbrellas—where you can sit with a spritz and pretend you’re in some prestigious food documentary about discovering regional Italian cuisine." - neha talreja, bryan kim, willa moore, will hartman