If you have driven San Vicente between Bundy and 26th in the last few months, you have watched paper come off windows at a pace this corridor has not seen in years. Nine new shops opened between January and April 2026 across downtown Brentwood and the Village, with at least two more due before fall, including Pop Up Bagels, Great White, Go Greek, Neighborly, Ggiata, Paliskates, Flour Pizzeria and Cafe, with Layla's Bagels and Community Goods set to open in the next month.
That is a lot of ribbon cuttings for one stretch of coral trees. It is also not random.
The thesis, said plainly
The 2026 opening wave on San Vicente is not a normal retail cycle. It is Palisades displacement compressing into a nine-block corridor, layered on top of a food-hall bet that was already in motion. If you live here, that means your walk-to-dinner radius just changed, and a few of the tenants who used to be a canyon drive away are now around the corner.
The rest of this post is evidence for that claim, laid out the way you would actually encounter it walking east from Barrington.
Why so many, so fast
The short version of the story runs through the fire. Paliskates founder Erica Simpson has been open about the move: the move to Brentwood was motivated by her desire to reopen in an area close to the kids, and she chose the Country Mart area because it still has a little village feel to it. Great White, Ggiata and Flour Pizzeria followed a similar logic, and the Sunday morning market has absorbed some of the shift as well, with residents reporting that the Brentwood Farmers Market has taken in vendors from the Palisades.
Two things worth holding in your head at once:
- The food-hall project at 11754 and 11770 San Vicente was leased and permitted well before January. That was going to happen regardless.
- The tenants who moved in on shorter timelines — the skate shop, the sandwich counters, the pizzeria — are the ones responding to a specific customer base that had to relocate.
The result is denser than either force would have produced alone.
Neighborly is the anchor. Read it that way.
If one opening decides how this stretch feels for the next five years, it is Neighborly. The concept is not a restaurant. It is a curated food hall, and it is bringing in operators the Westside has not had walking access to before. The Brentwood outpost will debut with concepts from Gaby Dalkin, Questlove and Mini Kabob, plus Frank Pinello's Palermo Pizza Club. Pinello is a serious pull. He is the Brooklyn pizza maker behind Williamsburg's Best Pizza and host of Gozney TV's Pizza With Frank, and the concept focuses on Sicilian-style pizza made with dough fermented for 48 hours.
On operations, the model matters for how residents will actually use it. The location at 11754 S. San Vicente Blvd. introduces several restaurant concepts under one roof along with a curated marketplace, operating daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. with walk-in service, takeout, delivery, and catering available. That is a different rhythm than the sit-down tenants who used to hold those addresses. It is closer to how Grand Central Market functions than how PLANTA did. The signage went up on the block that GPI Companies lists as 11770 San Vicente, a roughly 12,000 square foot retail property along Brentwood's commercial corridor, adjacent to PLANTA's former space at 11754 San Vicente that has since been cleared out.
If you have wondered why so many neighbors have been talking about "the food hall," this is what they mean.
The Country Mart is quietly reintroducing itself
Twenty-six blocks west, the Brentwood Country Mart is running its own refresh. Two openings in the last month tell you the direction. Orlebar Brown opened its Brentwood Country Mart location on June 12, marking the British resortwear brand's fourth California location and joining boutiques in Beverly Hills, Newport Beach and Montecito. That same week, the Mart nabbed the first Los Angeles County location for women's contemporary brand Varley, followed by the opening of London men's swim trunk maker Orlebar Brown.
Two swim-and-resort brands opening within weeks of each other is a positioning choice, not a coincidence. The Mart is leaning into the beach-adjacent identity that has always been latent in its zip code and letting the tenant mix say so out loud. If you have been shopping there for a decade, the change is worth clocking. The post office, shoe repair, and barbershop are still present today, which is the point. The Mart's ownership has historically added new tenants without displacing the old ones, and this cycle looks the same.
For a genuinely local rhythm, the Mart's own calendar is running summer programming right through the season. Mart Littles Story Time and Diesel book signings, including an evening with Kathryn Stockett, are on the July slate.
Bagels, temaki, and the carbohydrate map
Zooming back out to San Vicente proper, three of the smaller openings are worth naming because they will change your Saturday morning options.
Window paper is up at 11710 San Vicente Blvd. declaring the impending arrival of PopUp Bagels, not to be confused with Pop's Bagels just up the street, a concept that began as a backyard pickup window and has since spread up and down the East Coast. A second bagel shop, Hank's Bagels, has window decals up at the former Yu Cake space at 11725 Barrington Ct., adding to locations in Burbank and Sherman Oaks. And a new ABC application at the Contempo Floor Covering store at 908 S Barrington Ave. names the new tenant as Sora, the future home of a branch of Sora Temaki Bar, which has a location in The Grove and one on the way in Thousand Oaks.
If you counted three bagel counters within a five-minute walk and thought that could not be right, it is right. There is also relief coming for the Montana Avenue coffee line. La La Land Kind Cafe appears to be moving into the old Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf at 11698 San Vicente Blvd. in Brentwood, offering a second nearby location for anyone tired of waiting at the Montana branch.
Over at Brentwood Gardens, the transformation continues. Along with Ospi, Sweetgreen, and the upcoming Pérse and Cafe Landwer, Go Greek Yogurt is setting up housekeeping in the ground floor space #117. That is a food-heavy tenant list for a center that used to be defined by California Pizza Kitchen.
What is not open yet, and when
A few of the most talked-about arrivals are still months away. Worth knowing if you are trying to picture next summer, not this one.
| Concept | Address | Expected |
|---|---|---|
| Neighborly food hall | 11754 S. San Vicente Blvd. | Spring 2026 debut, with an April 2 projection on Eater LA's list |
| Montana's by h.wood Group | 11920 San Vicente Blvd. | Early 2027 |
| Layla's Bagels | Brentwood | Reported opening within weeks of April 2026 |
| Community Goods | Brentwood | Reported opening within weeks of April 2026 |
On Neighborly's timing, previews and industry roundups currently point to a spring debut for the Brentwood opening, with Eater LA including an April 2 projection on its list of anticipated Los Angeles restaurant openings, though there was no firm public grand opening date available when local outlets first reported the story. On Montana's, the new venue is poised to become a hospitality destination with its speakeasy-inspired lounge and restaurant in Brentwood, slated for opening early next year in 2027 at 11920 San Vicente Blvd.
The summer calendar residents actually use
New retail is only half the corridor. The other half is the rhythm that has been here for decades. A few dates and standing routines worth keeping on the fridge.
- The Sunday morning Brentwood Farmers Market, now carrying vendors displaced from the Palisades.
- The 43rd Annual Providence Saint John's Health Center Brentwood Run on Sunday, May 24, 2026, with a 10K, 5K, and 1K Kids Run, run right down the coral-tree median.
- Chamber Music Palisades at Brentwood Presbyterian Church, 12000 San Vicente Blvd., which has continued programming through the year.
- Baltaire's weekend prix fixe, where the restaurant is running its tableside pastry program on Saturdays through summer. The San Vicente Boulevard steakhouse is keeping its signature tableside pastry cart rolling for a limited time for weekend prix fixe diners, following high demand during the holiday weekend.
None of these are new. That is why they matter. When you fold the new tenants into a routine that already includes the Sunday market, the Brentwood Run, and a walkable dinner block, the value of what changed this year gets easier to see.
What all of this means, if you live here
The San Vicente corridor has always been a Brentwood asset. What is different in 2026 is density. More independent operators, more chef-driven concepts, more resort brands, and more of the Palisades' displaced retail community in walking distance from Barrington. If you rarely turned right at the Country Mart because there was not much reason to, that has changed. If your Sunday errand loop was Farmers Market, coffee, and home, you now have three additional stops that opened after New Year's.
For anyone thinking about the neighborhood in longer terms, the shift is worth watching without over-reading it. Corridors that add this many independent tenants in one year tend to feel different for a while, then settle. The best signal is which of these openings still has a line on a Wednesday night next February.
If you would like a locally informed take on how this corridor is shaping day-to-day life on your block, Megan Whalen is glad to talk. Let's Connect.
