What Changed On San Vicente This Summer: A Brentwood Resident's August Field Notes

If you took July off the corridor, San Vicente is not quite the street you left. A four-kitchen food hall opened where a single restaurant used to sit. The Sunday market on Gretna Green is denser than it was last August. The Getty is running a summer slate that ends before Halloween. And the block between the Country Mart and 12th Helena has one more construction fence than it did in April, with a name attached to it now.

The thesis is small but useful. Brentwood Village in August 2026 has quietly reorganized around two shifts most residents underweight: a food-hall model that changes how a weekday lunch works, and a farmers market that absorbed a chunk of Pacific Palisades after February. If your weekly loop still looks like it did last summer, you are missing the part of the neighborhood that moved.

The San Vicente lunch problem, now solved differently

The most concrete change on the corridor sits at 11770 San Vicente Boulevard. Neighborly, a food hall concept that previously operated only in Westlake Village, put up signage there earlier this year and opened its second location in Brentwood. The doors came open Saturday, April 11 at 11:00 a.m., after final sign-offs from the city of Los Angeles.

What matters for residents is the roster under one roof. The opening lineup includes What Gaby's Cooking from Chef Gaby Dalkin, Mini Kabob from Chef Armen Martirosyan and family, Mixtape from Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, and Frank Pinello's West Coast pizza project, Palermo Pizza Club. The concept is built so a family or group can pull from four different chef-crafted menus in one order, or grab prepared items from the gourmet marketplace for home.

For a household that has spent years choosing between a Country Mart takeout run and a sit-down on Barrington, this is a genuine third option. It also compresses the decision. Kids who want pizza, a partner who wants kabob, and a Sunday-cook who wants Dalkin's produce-forward plates no longer require three stops or a debate.

The Country Mart still sets the tempo

None of that displaces the Country Mart. The center at 225 26th Street, just south of San Vicente, opened November 18, 1948 and remains a 30,000-square-foot shopping center that residents are famously protective of. Its outdoor dining area rings a central fire pit, and the Mart still hosts a mix of stores, dining, and free family events.

The August calendar is worth writing down. Mart Littles Story Time runs 11:00 a.m. to noon on August 5, August 12, and August 19, according to the Country Mart's own calendar. The tenant mix that keeps residents circling the parking lot is the usual short list:

• Farmshop for a longer sit-down
• Caffe Luxxe when the line at the other coffee options is out the door
• Sweet Rose Creamery, ice cream made on the premises
• Reddi Chick for the rotisserie basket that has anchored the Mart for decades
• The barbershop, post office, and shoe repair that most malls do not carry

"Try the Poached Chicken Salad With Green Beans, Radicchio, Watermelon Radish," reads one long-standing Foursquare tip about Farmshop. The point is not the salad. The point is that the Mart tenants have been stable long enough that specific menu items have their own reputations.

One practical footnote for anyone who has stopped parking there out of frustration. Parking under the Brentwood Town Center across the alleyway from the Country Mart on 26th Street runs $3 per fifteen minutes with a $16 daily maximum, and drops to a $4 flat rate after 5 p.m. That last number is the one worth memorizing for dinner.

Sunday morning is not what it was

The Sunday market on Gretna Green Way, one block off San Vicente, has been the neighborhood's default weekend anchor for years. This summer it is meaningfully different.

The Brentwood Farmers Market typically runs Sunday morning to early afternoon on Gretna Green Way just off San Vicente, and after the February 2026 Palisades fire, local reporting noted that some Pacific Palisades vendors temporarily relocated to Brentwood and the market layout expanded. If you have not been in a few months, the footprint is wider and the vendor mix is deeper than the version you remember from January.

For residents who used to hit the Palisades market on Sunday and Gretna Green on a different weekend, the calculus has changed. One trip does what two used to.

A rough sequence for a resident's Sunday, in the order that works best with parking and lines:

1. Farmers market on Gretna Green by 9:30 a.m., before the corridor fills
2. Coffee at the Mart on the walk back
3. Errands at the Mart's practical services while the courtyard is still calm
4. A late lunch pulled from Neighborly's four kitchens, eaten in or taken home

None of these stops require moving the car.

The Getty window closes October 18

For residents who treat the Getty as a rainy-Sunday backup and forget it exists in August, the summer slate has a clock on it. The current exhibition schedule includes shows running July 14 to October 18, 2026 and June 23 to October 18, 2026 at the Getty Center. That is a shared end date worth putting on the calendar.

The logistics have not changed. Admission is free with a timed-entry reservation, made online or by calling (310) 440-7300, and parking runs $25 per car, dropping to $15 after 3 p.m., $10 after 6 p.m., and free on Saturdays after 6 p.m.

The Saturday-evening free-parking window is the underused move. A late-August Saturday at the Getty, arriving after six, works as a proper night out without the parking bill that usually makes it feel like a day trip.

What is coming, and why the corridor is worth walking now

The other reason to pay attention this summer is that the block will look different by next spring. The h.wood Group is developing Montana's, a restaurant and lounge slated for an early 2027 opening at 11920 San Vicente Boulevard, positioned as an "exclusive, intimate clubhouse". The group behind Delilah and Harriet's is targeting the Westside corridor as a cultural hub aimed at a luxury-lifestyle demographic.

For residents, the read-through is simple. The stretch of San Vicente between the Country Mart and the 12000 block is being repositioned in real time. Neighborly took the daytime and family piece. Montana's, when it opens, will take the evening piece. What sits in between for the next several months is the corridor as most residents remember it, before the evening character shifts.

That is a small window to enjoy the current version. A weekday coffee at the Mart still feels like a weekday coffee at the Mart. The Sunday market crowd is denser but still recognizable. The 5 p.m. cast on San Vicente's coral-tree median, which the Brentwood Village guide captures well, has not yet been rerouted by a valet line.

A calibrated August, on foot

The corridor rewards a resident who plans two hours instead of thirty minutes. Park once. Walk the north side of San Vicente from the Country Mart east toward Barrington. Cut down Gretna Green on a Sunday if that is the day. Reserve the Getty for a Saturday after six, when parking is free and the galleries thin out before closing.

If you have lived here long enough that the neighborhood feels fixed, the Neighborly opening and the market's post-fire expansion are the two data points to test that assumption against. Both happened this year. Both changed the rhythm. Neither shows up on a map.

At Beverly Luxury Estates, we spend a lot of time on this corridor because our clients live on it. If you would like a private conversation about how the Village is evolving, or a confidential valuation of your Brentwood home as the block repositions, request an instant home valuation or schedule a private consultation.