A Brentwood Summer, 2026: The New San Vicente, The Old Country Mart, And The Sundays In Between

There is a quiet reorganization happening in Brentwood this summer, and you can taste it before you can name it. The Country Mart courtyard still smells like Farmshop fried chicken on a Sunday afternoon. The 26th Street sidewalks still fill by ten. But six blocks east, San Vicente Boulevard has picked up a second act. In the last ninety days, the corridor has absorbed a four-chef food hall, a second Savta, and a whisper about a members-club-styled restaurant slated for 11920 San Vicente.

The thesis is simple. Brentwood's summer used to run on one rhythm: the Mart, the market, and a handful of long-tenured tables. It now runs on two, and the residents who use both are getting a better neighborhood than the ones still stuck on the old map.

The San Vicente Corridor Has A New Center Of Gravity

The most consequential opening of the spring landed at 11770 San Vicente. Neighborly Brentwood opened Saturday, April 11 at 11:00 a.m., and it is not another single-concept restaurant. It is a food hall built around four chef-driven stalls under one order. The lineup includes What Gaby's Cooking from Gaby Dalkin, Mini Kabob from Armen Martirosyan and family, Mixtape from Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, and Palermo Pizza Club from Frank Pinello of Williamson's Best Pizza.

The design intent matters for how residents actually use it. The concept lets a family or group pick and choose across four chef-crafted menus, or pick up fresh and frozen items from Neighborly's marketplace. Read that as: the Sunday-night standoff between the kid who wants pizza and the adult who wants Mediterranean is now a solved problem in Brentwood.

A block west, the hand-roll bench got deeper. Savta expanded from the Original Farmers Market to a more spacious second location on Barrington, keeping the same combinations like tuna with truffle and jalapeño, red snapper with yuzu kosho and cilantro, and one with uni, caviar, and toro. A weekday lunch special pairs an appetizer with three hand rolls for $32. For a neighborhood where a decent omakase can clear three figures before the fish arrives, a $32 weekday hand-roll set is a meaningful data point, not a marketing line.

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Sundays Still Belong To Brentwood Blvd

The best summer routine in Brentwood is still free. The Brentwood Farmers' Market runs every Sunday from June 7 through August 30, 10 AM to 2 PM on Brentwood Blvd, with a rotating lineup of local vendors bringing produce, baked goods, and artisan crafts.

A quick note on the calendar. Sunday, July 19 falls inside that window, and the market has one more month before it closes at the end of August. If you have been meaning to make it a habit, this is the shortest runway of the season. The pattern locals fall into is the useful one: walk the market at ten, coffee and a bag of stone fruit at eleven, and either a Farmshop table at the Mart or a Savta counter seat at Barrington by noon.

The Country Mart's Summer Rhythm Is A Weekly Beat, Not A Destination

The Country Mart is best used as an operating system, not an outing. If you already live here, the summer programming turns the courtyard into a low-key third place a few days a week.

• Wednesday mornings at 11 AM. Mart Littles Story Time runs Wednesdays at 11 AM all summer long, from May 13 through the end of August, hosted in the courtyard.
• Live sports on the big screen. The courtyard hosted the USA vs Bosnia & Herzegovina match on the big screen, with dinner grabbed from the nearby eateries. Treat it as an ongoing option, not a one-off.
• Fridays in August. Free family-friendly classic films in the courtyard on Fridays at 6 PM, with dinner and treats from the Country Mart merchants. Film titles are TBA.
• A Father's Day set piece worth remembering for next year. Father's Day at the Mart runs 12 to 2 PM with root beer floats and Farmshop fried chicken, and Dad gets a complimentary float.

A note on tenants worth walking through even if you are not shopping. The Mart's brand roster now includes Varley, Orlebar Brown, and Cos Bar alongside artisanal goods at the Trading Post. The Varley opening was celebrated with complimentary Sweet Rose Creamery ice cream, which is the kind of casual generosity that still defines the place.

What's Landing Next: 11920 San Vicente

If you want a sense of where the San Vicente conversation is going, look four buildings down from Neighborly. The h.wood Group is developing Montana's, a restaurant and lounge designed to evoke an "exclusive, intimate clubhouse," slated for an early 2027 opening at 11920 San Vicente Blvd. The group's other projects include Delilah and Harriet's.

Read the map. Neighborly at 11770 opened this April. Montana's is being planned at 11920 for early 2027. That is a two-block stretch of San Vicente absorbing a full food hall and a members-styled lounge inside roughly a two-year window. Whether or not Montana's is your kind of room, its arrival tells you the corridor is being underwritten by operators who bet on foot traffic and repeat visits, not tourism.

A Weekend Blueprint For Residents

Use this as a template, not a checklist. The point is to keep the two Brentwoods talking to each other.

1. Saturday morning. Walk or run San Vicente's coral-tree median. Coffee at any of your usual stops.
2. Saturday lunch. Savta on Barrington. Order the weekday special if it is Friday, otherwise build a hand-roll flight.
3. Saturday evening. Neighborly, mixed order across two stalls, take home a marketplace item for Sunday breakfast.
4. Sunday 10 AM. Farmers market on Brentwood Blvd. Buy more stone fruit than you think you need.
5. Sunday noon. Country Mart courtyard. Farmshop table if the weather is right, or a bench with something from Reddi Chick.
6. Wednesday, if you have small kids. Mart Littles Story Time at 11.
7. Friday in August. Country Mart courtyard, film at 6, dinner from the merchants.

What The New Map Means For A Resident

The value of living in Brentwood this summer is not any single opening. It is that the neighborhood now supports two distinct patterns without one cannibalizing the other. The Country Mart continues to be a low-key village center with programming built for families and long-time locals. San Vicente has picked up a chef-driven density that used to require a drive to Sawtelle or the Grove. A resident who uses both weekly is effectively getting two neighborhoods for the price of one property tax bill.

There is also a quieter read for anyone who tracks these things. When operators like Gaby Dalkin, Questlove, Frank Pinello, and the h.wood Group are all placing bets on the same six-block stretch inside eighteen months, they are underwriting a thesis about the corridor. That thesis lines up with what residents already know from the sidewalk. Brentwood is not slowing down. Its center of gravity is widening.

If you are already at home in Brentwood and want to talk about how the neighborhood is evolving, from the San Vicente corridor to the streets north of Sunset, The Malibu Life team keeps a close read on the market and the lifestyle it supports. Reach out when you are ready. Work With Us.