Summer 2026 is not a routine one on the north side of San Vicente. The Getty Center is running its last full season of free Saturday-night concerts before a year of scheduled improvements, a new food hall from a Westlake Village import just opened at 11770 San Vicente, and the Country Mart is doing its quiet, weekly thing. For anyone who already lives here, the season has more moving parts than usual.
The Getty is running a closing lap
The piece of Brentwood news most residents underestimate is a calendar item. The Getty Center is set to close in the spring of 2027 for a year of modernization work, which means the summer of 2026 is the last window before the museum takes a year off. If you have been meaning to walk the Central Garden at golden hour or catch an Off the 405 set on the courtyard lawn, this is the season to do it.
The concert series itself is a good barometer of what makes the Getty a neighborhood asset rather than a tourist stop. The series returned in 2026 beginning May 30 with a performance by aja monet, and the final night takes place August 22, with Hunx and His Punx, Leenalchi, Horse Lords, and Laurel Halo also on the schedule. Each Saturday performance starts at 7:30pm and is preceded by a DJ set at 6pm. Admission is free, but so is the friction: tickets tend to open up about three weeks before each show and sell out fairly quickly.
A practical note that matters if you drive up the hill: special summer parking from June 11 through July 19 is $25 per car or motorcycle, $15 after 3pm, and the Getty is offering free parking for those who show up after 6pm on Saturdays. Play it right on a concert night and the entire evening costs nothing.
San Vicente is quietly being reshuffled
For years, the San Vicente corridor between Bundy and 26th has been stable to the point of being predictable. That changed this spring.
Neighborly Brentwood opened on Saturday, April 11, at 11:00 a.m., after receiving final sign-offs from the city of Los Angeles. The brand's signage went up at 11770 San Vicente Blvd. and the food hall concept, which previously had one location in Westlake Village, offers a curated marketplace where people can order from different menus and chefs under the same order. The four concepts under one roof are worth knowing individually rather than as a category:
| Concept | Chef or operator | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Gaby's | Gaby Dalkin | California-inspired menu with the Caesar Avocado Wrap and Chinese Chicken Crunch Salad |
| Mixtape | Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson | Modern burger and chicken tenders, including gluten-free, seed-oil-free fried chicken sandwiches |
| Mini Kabob | Armen Martirosyan and family | Mediterranean grill, an LA Times 101 Best Restaurants regular |
| Palermo Pizza Club | Frank Pinello of Best Pizza | Sicilian-style pizza |
Mini Kabob has repeatedly appeared on the Los Angeles Times "101 Best Restaurants" list, and Mixtape comes from Grammy Award-winning musician and filmmaker Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson. The economic logic here is worth pausing on: one lease, four kitchens, four ticket averages. It is the kind of format that tends to shorten average table times and lift lunch traffic, and it lands on a stretch of San Vicente that has historically leaned toward sit-down.
The San Vicente activity is not limited to Neighborly. Savta, which debuted at the Original Farmers Market last year, has expanded to a second, more spacious spot in Brentwood, with the same handrolls as the original including tuna with truffle and jalapeño, red snapper with yuzu kosho and cilantro, and one with uni, caviar, and toro; a weekday lunch special includes an appetizer and three handrolls for $32. Meanwhile Pérse is preparing to open on the third floor of Brentwood Gardens at 11677 San Vicente Blvd., combining two former office units, with Los Angeles City Planning Department filings approving a change of use from office to restaurant. An office-to-restaurant conversion on the Gardens' third floor is a small but telling reallocation of what the corridor is being asked to do.
Sunday morning is still Sunday morning
For all the movement on San Vicente, the neighborhood's most durable weekly ritual has not changed. The Brentwood Farmers Market runs every Sunday from 9am to 2pm, adjacent to the Brentwood Country Club at the corner of San Vicente Blvd and Gretna Green Way. The market is affiliated with California Certified Farmers Markets (CCFM), and street parking along San Vicente next to the golf course is usually the most reliable option.
The market absorbed a piece of the westside's recent history without much announcement. It has taken in vendors from the Pacific Palisades Farmers Market, so familiar faces from the Palisades market now show up in Brentwood on Sundays. If you were a Palisades regular before January 2025, this is where several of those relationships continue.
Practical texture worth knowing:
- Arrive before 10:30 or after 1:00 to avoid the peak crush
- Yong Xiong Farms and Yang's Produce carry harder-to-find Asian vegetables that most Whole Foods runs will not have
- Food stands are priced accessibly, with tacos starting at $2 and Indian plates around $8.50
- Seating is limited, so treat it as a walking market rather than a brunch destination
The Country Mart holds its rhythm
The Country Mart is not trying to be new. It is trying to be reliable, which in this neighborhood is the harder move.
Wednesday morning Story Time is hosted by Cassidy Preschool in the courtyard as part of the Country Mart's Summer Series, running weekly at 11am from May 13 through the end of August. That is the sort of programming that only matters if you have a two-year-old, and if you do, it is the point of the summer.
The Mart's other summer regular is its Friday-night courtyard film series, which historically runs through August with G and PG titles starting at 6pm; the community is invited for a free family-friendly classic film every Friday at 6pm in the courtyard, with dinner and treats available from Country Mart merchants. Sports viewings also appear on the courtyard big screen through the summer, including a USA vs. Bosnia & Herzegovina match at 17:00, watchable while grabbing dinner from one of the nearby eateries.
If you are stopping in for something more than a schedule item, the current tenant mix includes Varley, Orlebar Brown, and Cos Bar, alongside artisanal goods at the Trading Post. Farmshop's fried chicken remains the reason most residents walk over on a weekend.
How the pieces fit together
Look at these four things at once and a pattern shows up. The Getty is running a finite season before it goes dark. San Vicente is being rewritten one address at a time, with a food hall replacing what would have been another single-tenant lease and a restaurant taking third-floor office space at Brentwood Gardens. The Farmers Market absorbed a piece of Palisades continuity that most guides have not caught up with. The Country Mart is providing the through-line that makes the rest of it feel less unstable.
The summer to plan for is the one where you use the Getty while it is open, treat the Neighborly opening as a lunch experiment rather than a dinner destination, and keep the Sunday morning walk on Gretna Green as the anchor. In August, everything on this list is still available. By March 2027, the biggest piece of it will not be.
A note for those considering a move within Brentwood
If your read of the neighborhood is shifting because of any of this, whether that means a walk-up to San Vicente becomes more valuable, or a quieter address south of Sunset becomes more appealing while the corridor evolves, the assessment is worth having in person.
For a confidential valuation or a private conversation about how these shifts read against your specific block, reach out to Joseph Babajian. Twenty-five years of Westside representation tends to sharpen the questions that matter.
