The stretch of San Vicente between Barrington and 26th has always done a strange trick. It looks sleepy on a Tuesday morning and busy on a Sunday afternoon, and the reason is a five-minute walk that ties a 1948 courtyard to a farmers market to, as of April, a four-chef food hall. That density is the amenity. This summer, three of the pieces on that walk are new.
The Food Hall That Just Landed at 11770
Neighborly Brentwood opened on Saturday, April 11, 2026, at 11:00 a.m., with a limited tote giveaway for the first twenty-five guests placing orders above forty dollars. The concept is one order, four kitchens, and it is not a food court in the mall sense. Under one roof you can pull from Gaby's, the California-inspired counter from cookbook author Gaby Dalkin; Mixtape, the burger and chicken-tender concept from Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson that serves gluten-free, seed-oil-free fried chicken sandwiches and coconut soft-serve; Mini Kabob, the Mediterranean grill from chef Armen Martirosyan and his family, which has repeatedly landed on the Los Angeles Times 101 Best Restaurants list; and Palermo Pizza Club, Frank Pinello's West Coast Sicilian-style outpost from the team behind Best Pizza in Williamsburg. There is also a marketplace of fresh and frozen items for the walk home.
The mix matters more than any one menu. If your household argues about dinner, this is the first place on San Vicente designed to end the argument at the counter rather than in the car.
The Handroll Annex, and What's Behind the Scaffolding
A block south, Savta has opened a second, roomier location at 906 S Barrington Ave. The Barrington menu is the same handroll lineup as the Original Farmers Market flagship, including combinations like tuna with truffle and jalapeño, red snapper with yuzu kosho and cilantro, and one loaded with uni, caviar, and toro. On weekdays there is a lunch set with an appetizer and three handrolls for thirty-two dollars, which is worth knowing if you are the one who volunteers to pick up lunch.
The scaffolding you have been walking past belongs to Pérse, going into the third floor of Brentwood Gardens at 11677 San Vicente Blvd. Two former office units have been combined for it, and city planning records show the change-of-use has been approved along with a full liquor license and signage. An opening date has not been posted.
Also worth noting for the bagel household: Pop's has moved its bagel-making operation a few miles west into Santa Monica after Popup Bagels arrived on the corridor.
Here is the corridor's summer roster at a glance:
| Place | Address | What It Is | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neighborly | 11770 San Vicente Blvd | Four-chef food hall + marketplace | Open since April 11, 2026 |
| Savta | 906 S Barrington Ave | Handroll bar, second location | Open |
| Pérse | 11677 San Vicente Blvd (Brentwood Gardens, 3rd fl) | Full-service restaurant with bar | Under construction, approved |
| Pop's Bagels | Relocated west to Santa Monica | Bagel operation departure | Closed here |
Sunday, Roughly
The Brentwood Certified Farmers Market runs year-round on Sundays from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at 741 Gretna Green Way, one block off San Vicente. On a normal Sunday you plan around it. This year the market is doing something less normal.
After the February 2026 Palisades fire, some Pacific Palisades vendors relocated to Brentwood on a temporary basis, and the market's layout was expanded to hold them. If you have not been in a few months, the footprint is bigger and the roster is different. It is a useful reminder that the corridor is porous with the Palisades and adapts when it needs to.
A serviceable Sunday shape, if you want one:
- Park north of Montana, walk in. Street parking is residential; the earlier the easier.
- Market first, produce and flowers, coffee optional there.
- Cross San Vicente to the Brentwood Country Mart at 225 26th Street. Order at Reddi Chick or Barney's Gourmet Hamburgers, take it to the fire-pit courtyard.
- Sweet Rose Creamery on the way out. The ice cream is made on the premises.
- If the kids are along, Mart Littles Story Time runs 11:00 a.m. to noon on select Sundays, including July 8, 2026.
Why the Fire Pit Still Wins
The Country Mart opened on November 18, 1948. It is a thirty-thousand-square-foot barn-styled shopping court at 26th and San Vicente, designed by Rowland Crawford, with its own free lot and an outdoor dining area wrapped around a central fire pit. In 2003 James Rosenfield of J.S. Rosenfield & Co. took it over and restored the architecture along with the original mix of post office, food courtyard, barber shop, toy store, and shoe repair, adding a rotating series of pop-ups.
The reason it still works while the corridor churns around it is that the Mart is not competing with Neighborly or Savta. It is doing something they cannot, which is bundling coffee, a meal, dessert, a haircut at the Mart Barber Shoppe, and a book run into one courtyard. Farmshop anchors the sit-down side, Caffe Luxxe the coffee. A thirty-thousand-square-foot property that has held onto a post office and a shoe repair in this ZIP code is not a nostalgic accident. It is a business decision that has been working since Harry Truman was president.
That is the frame worth carrying into the rest of the summer. Neighborly is the new tenant. The Country Mart is the fixed point.
The Corridor Itself
The reason any of this walks well is planning, not luck. San Vicente between Bundy and 26th sits inside the San Vicente Scenic Corridor specific plan, folded into the Brentwood–Pacific Palisades Community Plan. That is why the median is wide, the coral trees are mature and evenly spaced, and the setbacks feel consistent from block to block.
The everyday polish comes from the Brentwood Village Business Improvement District, whose services include landscaping, tree trimming, fountain cleaning, sidewalk cleaning, trash pickup, and holiday lights. None of that is glamorous. All of it is why a Sunday morning on San Vicente reads the way it does. The corridor has roughly forty-two thousand residents around it and civic anchors within a short walk, including the Brentwood Branch Library on San Vicente, the Barrington Recreation Center, and Fire Station 19 on West Sunset.
If you have been fitness-adjacent, boutique studios like Club Pilates Brentwood stitch neatly into the same loop. A morning class, a coffee at Caffe Luxxe, a lap through the market, home before the game.
One More Thing Worth Watching
The interesting question this summer is not whether Neighborly will draw a crowd. It will. The interesting question is whether the split-menu, walk-in food-hall format quietly reshapes how the corridor eats on weeknights, and whether Pérse, when it finally opens upstairs at Brentwood Gardens, pushes San Vicente back toward the sit-down, reservation, wine-list evening the corridor used to lean on before takeout took over. Both formats can coexist. They just imply different kinds of Tuesdays.
For now, the answer to what to do this weekend is the same as it has been for a long time. Start at Gretna Green. End at the fire pit. There is just more to try in between than there was in January.
If you have been thinking about the block you live on, the block you want to live on, or how the corridor's next opening might change your Sunday, Blanche D'Souza has spent twenty years walking these streets with clients. Let's Connect when the timing is right for you.