For years, the running joke among longtime Brentwood residents was that the neighborhood's food scene lived on Montana Avenue in Santa Monica or a mile east in Westwood Village. San Vicente had its coral trees, its country club, its Sunday farmers market, and a steady rotation of the same dinner reservations. That is not the summer of 2026.
Between the Getty Center winding down its last outdoor concert season before a year of closure, a chef-driven food hall opening two blocks off San Vicente, and a well-known Farmers Market handroll counter quietly setting up a second address on Barrington, the walkable stretch of Brentwood has more genuinely new places to spend a Saturday than it has had in a decade. If you already live here, the practical question is not whether to leave the neighborhood this summer. It is which end of San Vicente to start from.
The Getty's Last Free Summer, For A While
The Off the 405 series has been the neighborhood's most reliable free ticket since 2009, and the 2026 lineup is running under an unusual deadline. The Getty Center will shutter in the spring of 2027 for a year for major modernization efforts, meaning the summer of 2026 is the last chance to catch the series before it takes a year off.
The remaining shows have been dated for months. aja monet opened May 30, Hunx and His Punx played June 13, Leenalchi took the stage July 11, Horse Lords headlined July 25, and Laurel Halo closes the season on August 22. Each Saturday performance starts at 7:30pm and is preceded by a DJ set at 6pm.
Two logistical points worth knowing if you have not been in a while. Even though tickets are free, they are still required and serve as your museum reservation, and if a show is sold out, walk-ups are admitted day-of when spots open up. Parking drops to $15 after 3pm and is free after 6pm on Saturdays, which quietly turns the concert into one of the least expensive nights out in the 90049.
The Getty's programming this summer is not a fluke on its own. It is the last of a specific kind of Brentwood evening. When the museum reopens in 2028, the Off the 405 model will presumably return, but the current season is the version most locals grew up with.
What Actually Opened On San Vicente
The most consequential arrival is Neighborly. The food hall opened Saturday, April 11, 2026, after final sign-offs from the city of Los Angeles. The address is 11770 San Vicente Blvd, which puts it inside the walking radius of most of the residential blocks north of the country club.
What makes it worth understanding structurally, rather than as a novelty, is the concept. Neighborly is a multi-restaurant format under one roof and one check. The debut lineup includes What Gaby's Cooking from Chef Gaby Dalkin, Mini Kabob from Chef Armen Martirosyan and family, Mixtape from Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, and Palermo Pizza Club from Frank Pinello of Williamson, New York's Best Pizza. The design lets a family or group order across the four chef menus, or pick up something for home from Neighborly's gourmet marketplace with fresh and frozen options.
The reason that matters to a resident, and not just to a food writer, is that Mini Kabob has spent years as a Glendale destination for people who were willing to drive across the basin. Having Armen Martirosyan's kitchen operating on San Vicente changes the calculus of a Wednesday night dinner in a way a new stand-alone restaurant would not, because it comes bundled with three other kitchens the household can order across at the same time.
Just west of that, on Barrington, Savta has expanded. Savta, which debuted at the Original Farmers Market, has opened a second, more spacious spot in Brentwood at 906 S Barrington Ave, with the same handroll menu as the original, including tuna with truffle and jalapeño, red snapper with yuzu kosho and cilantro, and uni with caviar and toro, plus a weekday lunch special of an appetizer and three handrolls for $32.
Two different formats, two different price points, both within a short walk of each other. That is not the shape the neighborhood had a year ago.
The Sunday You Already Knew, Reframed
The Brentwood Farmers Market is the anchor most residents assume has always been there and always will be. That assumption is doing a lot of work. The market runs Sunday, year-round, 9:00am to 2:00pm at 741 Gretna Green Way and San Vicente Blvd.
What is worth doing this summer, if you have fallen out of the habit, is walking the market as the front end of a longer loop rather than as its own errand. The Neighborly opening changed the geography. A Sunday that used to end at the market at noon can now credibly continue with a lunch pickup at Palermo Pizza Club or a handroll set at Savta, both reachable on foot from the Gretna Green stalls. The market has not changed. What sits next to it has.
The Piece Coming In Early 2027
One more opening is worth knowing about now, because it will shape what the corridor looks like a year from now.
The h.wood Group, the hospitality company behind Delilah and Harriet's, is developing Montana's, a restaurant and lounge slated for an early 2027 opening at 11920 San Vicente Blvd., designed to evoke an "exclusive, intimate clubhouse" atmosphere. That address sits close enough to Neighborly that the two projects effectively bookend a new dining cluster on the boulevard.
For anyone weighing whether the current wave of activity is a one-summer blip or a sustained shift, Montana's is the tell. Operators like The h.wood Group do not sign long leases on San Vicente unless they read the corridor as durable.
Two Practical Notes For Residents
A few things worth flagging that do not fit neatly into any single section:
- Saturdays are for the Getty, Sundays are for the market. The Off the 405 series only runs Saturday evenings, and the Farmers Market only runs Sunday mornings. If you want both in the same weekend, the sequencing writes itself.
- The Getty closure will affect more than the concerts. The main galleries will be closed for a year starting spring 2027. That means the Van Gogh, the tram ride up, and the gardens go offline together. If you have been meaning to bring visiting family through, this is the summer to do it.
- Parking on San Vicente has not gotten easier. The Neighborly opening has added foot traffic to a block that was already tight on weekend evenings. Residents south of the boulevard have found the walk faster than the loop for a parking space, particularly after 6pm.
A Neighborhood That Densified Without Building Up
The larger story behind this summer's calendar is not any single opening. It is that Brentwood has added a meaningful amount of cultural and culinary programming to its walkable core without adding significant new construction. The lots are the same. The setbacks are the same. The coral trees are the same. What has changed is what happens inside the existing envelopes on San Vicente and Barrington.
For long-time residents, that is a quieter kind of good news than a new tower or a rezoning. It means the neighborhood is getting more useful on foot without giving up the scale that drew people here in the first place. For anyone who owns on the blocks north of the country club, it also means the practical value of the address, measured in whether a Saturday can be spent without getting in the car, is higher this summer than it was last summer.
The Getty concerts end August 22. Neighborly is open now. Savta is open now. Montana's is on the way. If the plan for August was to leave town, at least know what you would be leaving.
If you are thinking through what any of this means for a purchase, a sale, or a longer-term decision about your Brentwood home, Jeffrey Sachs is available for a consultation grounded in exactly the kind of block-by-block detail this summer has produced.
