There are movies that spend years getting off the ground, going through script rewrites, cast changes, and director switches, and enough money to feed a small country — and there are endeavors like “Sunday at Il Posto Accanto," which seems to have risen organically from a favorite East Village eatery.

Located at 190 East 2nd St., it’s the spot that foodie Padma Lakshmi lists as one of her favorites — and she’s not alone.

Director Seth Svi Rosenfeld, who was born and raised in the neighborhood, was in town to make another movie altogether when that project fell apart. Julio Pena, co-owner of Il Posto with his wife, Beatrice Tosti di Valminuta, invited Rosenfeld to the restaurant.

“It was one of the crazier Sundays that I remember, and I’ve been going there since 1995," Rosenfeld recalled

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