Brentwood's summer calendar looks different this year, and the shift is more structural than seasonal. Three new dining rooms have arrived on San Vicente in the last six months, a fourth is under construction, and the Getty Center is quietly running out its final summer before a long closure. If you already live here, the useful question is not what to do this weekend. It is which of these openings and closures actually reshape the neighborhood, and which are noise.
The San Vicente rewrite
For years the corridor between Bundy and 26th Street held its shape through repetition: the same lunch counters, the same florists, the same shoe repair windows. That baseline is now genuinely moving.
Neighborly Brentwood opened on Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 11770 San Vicente Boulevard, importing the food-hall format its parent brand has been running in Westlake Village. Four chef-driven counters share one order:
- What Gaby's Cooking, from cookbook author Gaby Dalkin
- Mini Kabob, the Martirosyan family's Glendale mainstay, now with a Westside outpost
- Mixtape, from Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
- Palermo Pizza Club, Frank Pinello's West Coast debut
The concept resolves a small daily friction that anyone with a household knows well: four appetites, one bill, no negotiation. That is a genuinely new thing in Brentwood, where the default has long been a single-cuisine reservation.
A few blocks west at 906 South Barrington, Savta has opened its second location, an expansion of the Original Farmers Market handroll bar. The menu carries over uni-caviar-toro combinations and a weekday lunch set at three handrolls plus an appetizer for $32, which reads less like a special and more like a deliberate positioning against the ambient $60 lunch that has settled over this stretch.
Then there is the announcement that matters most for what Brentwood will feel like a year from now. The h.wood Group, the hospitality firm behind Delilah and Harriet's, has confirmed Montana's at 11920 San Vicente Boulevard, slated for early 2027. The description on record is an "exclusive, intimate clubhouse," which is h.wood's house style translated to a residential corridor rather than a Sunset Strip address. Whatever one thinks of the brand, its arrival signals that the Westside operators who spent the last decade concentrated in West Hollywood now see San Vicente as a serious destination corridor. That is a directional data point, not a mood.
A Sunday that hasn't changed, and why that matters
While the strip resets, the two anchors that make Brentwood feel like Brentwood are holding their ground.
The Brentwood Certified Farmers' Market runs every Sunday from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at 741 Gretna Green Way, year-round, tucked one block south of San Vicente on a residential street. It is small on purpose. If you arrive at 9:15 you are still ahead of the crowd; by 11:30 the good stone fruit is thinning.
The Brentwood Country Mart at 225 26th Street, opened in November 1948 and designed by Rowland Crawford in the barn-and-picket-fence idiom, remains the neighborhood's other Sunday habit. Reddi Chick still runs the rotisserie window. Farmshop still handles the sit-down lunch. Diesel, A Bookstore hosts author evenings on a rolling schedule, with Jessica Knoll signing Helpless on July 9. Sweet Rose, Frida's Taqueria, and the post office substation are all where they were.
What has changed at the Mart is the pop-up cadence. Simone Fan, a Los Angeles terry-cloth label producing pieces from vintage Hermès towels, staged a two-day residency in July. Varley launched at the courtyard on Saturday, July 11 with a Wimbledon-styled afternoon of rosé and strawberries. Wednesday mornings now hold a Mart Littles Story Time series through August. The through-line is that the Country Mart is programming itself more actively than it did five years ago, without touching the parts residents would resent losing.
Off the 405 has been drawing crowds to the Getty's courtyard since 2009. The 2026 season is expected to be the last for a while: the Getty Center will close from March 2027 through early 2028 for pre-Olympics improvements.
One deadline that belongs on the calendar
The Getty Center's free summer concert series, Off the 405, returned this year with five Saturday evenings starting May 30. The opening set was Los Angeles poet aja monet, who released "hollyweird," a single co-produced with Meshell Ndegeocello and written in response to the January 2025 wildfires. Tickets are free, released roughly three weeks before each show, and they book quickly. Walk-ups are admitted day-of if reservations open up.
The mechanics are worth knowing because they change the economics of the evening. Getty parking runs $25, drops to $15 after 3:00 p.m., $10 after 6:00 p.m., and is free after 6:00 p.m. on Saturdays. Admission is free. Galleries stay open until 9:00 p.m. on concert nights. If you arrive at 6:15 you can see an exhibition, walk the Central Garden, watch the concert, and pay nothing.
The reason to prioritize it this summer specifically is the closure. The Getty Center will be closed from March 2027 through early 2028 for a set of improvements tied to the Olympics, which means Off the 405 is expected to skip a season. This year's shows are the last opportunity for a while.
The median nobody notices
If you have lived in Brentwood for more than a year, you have probably run, walked a dog, or driven along the coral-tree median on San Vicente Boulevard without registering that it is legally protected. The grassy strip planted with coral trees runs down the center of San Vicente from roughly Bringham Avenue to 26th Street. The trees were planted in the 1940s after the old Pacific Electric streetcar tracks were pulled out, and the stretch is a designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.
The practical result is that the character of the corridor is fixed in a way that most Westside streets are not. New restaurants can arrive. Building facades can be renovated. The median, and by extension the two-mile visual signature of the neighborhood, is not going to be widened for turn lanes, replanted for drought code, or absorbed into a road-diet redesign. That permanence is one of the quieter reasons Brentwood values hold the way they do.
How to sequence a weekend
For anyone assembling an actual two-day itinerary out of the above, the sequence that works is straightforward.
Saturday afternoon at the Getty, ideally on an Off the 405 evening, arriving after 6:00 p.m. to catch the last hour of galleries before the show. Dinner is easier after the concert than before, which puts Neighborly or Savta in play depending on the size of the group.
Sunday belongs to Gretna Green Way at 9:00 a.m., then a walk over to the Country Mart courtyard for a Reddi Chick lunch and whichever pop-up or author signing is on the calendar that afternoon. A slow loop of the coral-tree median between 26th and Bringham closes the day. It is a two-mile round trip on soft grass, which is the point.
None of this is aspirational. It is what a resident's weekend looks like when the choices are edited down to the ones that reward paying attention.
Andrea Alberts represents buyers and sellers across Brentwood and the broader Westside, with a boutique practice built on editorial-quality presentation and the global reach of Sotheby's International Realty. If you are considering a move within the neighborhood, or would simply like an informed read on what your home is worth in the current market, Andrea Alberts welcomes a discreet conversation.