For a stretch of boulevard that looks the same from a car window year after year, San Vicente has been quietly rewriting its tenant list. The block between Barrington and 26th is not adding another single-owner bistro. It is trading that model for something else: chef-curated food halls, hospitality-group clubhouses, and office floors being cut open and rewired for full liquor service. If you already live here, the change matters less as news and more as a shift in what a Tuesday dinner looks like six months from now.
The thesis is small but worth sitting with. The operators betting on Brentwood right now are not betting on cuisine. They are betting on format.
The Neighborly bet, and the ghost of Planta
The most concrete change is at 11770 San Vicente. Neighborly, a chef-curated food hall that opened in Westlake Village late last year, is heading for Brentwood, with fresh signage along San Vicente Boulevard signaling a second Westside outpost that aims to cover quick family dinners, casual drinks, and efficient takeout under one roof. Signage is up at 11770 San Vicente Blvd, a social media post indicates a spring opening, and the brand first opened at the Promenade at Westlake Village in December 2024.
What makes this interesting is not the concept but the address. The spaces at 11758 and 11754 San Vicente Blvd have hosted a number of restaurants, most recently Planta, and Kreation and Pizzicotto before that. Three concepts, three fades. If you have lived on the strip long enough, you have watched paper go up and come down on those windows more than once.
Neighborly's response is to stop asking one operator to carry the room. This location offers six different menus including longtime LA institutions such as The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills Pizza and Gaby's. The Westlake Village original built the template: that location already features partners such as Mini Kabob and The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills. Add burger and sandwich spot Mix Tape and Mediterranean grill Mini Kabob to the roster and the math changes. One family, four different orders, one receipt.
| Incoming on San Vicente | Address | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Neighborly food hall | 11770 San Vicente Blvd | Signage up, spring 2026 |
| Pérse | 11677 San Vicente Blvd | Under construction |
| Montana's (h.wood Group) | 11920 San Vicente Blvd | Slated for early 2027 |
Eater LA has included an April 2 projection on its list of anticipated Los Angeles restaurant openings. Take that as a marker, not a guarantee. Buildout on multi-tenant kitchens rarely lands on the first flag planted.
Pérse: the office floor becoming a restaurant
Two blocks east, at 11677 San Vicente, a different kind of conversion is happening quietly above the retail line. Pérse, a new dining concept, is preparing to open at 11677 San Vicente Blvd, on the third floor of Brentwood Gardens, combining two former office units. The space is currently under construction and, according to Los Angeles City Planning Department filings, the project has received approval for a change of use from office to restaurant, with a full liquor license and signage plans included.
Two details are worth pausing on. First, the office-to-restaurant conversion is itself a story about Brentwood Gardens. A property that was built to move white-collar tenants during business hours is being cored out to move dinner traffic on Friday nights. Second, the menu and concept details have not yet been publicly disclosed, though the approval for a full liquor license suggests a comprehensive food and beverage program. Read that as a bar program, not just wine service with dinner.
Residents who use Brentwood Gardens today for the ground-floor errands should expect a different evening rhythm on that block once Pérse is trading. Third-floor lights, valet queues, and a later close.
Montana's, and the clubhouse turn
Further west at 11920 San Vicente, the operators arriving are not restaurateurs in the traditional sense. Hospitality group The h.wood Group is deepening its roots in the Los Angeles metropolitan area with two new culinary concepts in Brentwood and West Hollywood, marking a strategic pivot as it evolves from a nightlife-centric operation into a diverse hospitality portfolio.
In Brentwood, the firm is developing Montana's, a restaurant and lounge designed to evoke the atmosphere of an "exclusive, intimate clubhouse," slated for an early 2027 opening at 11920 San Vicente Blvd., combining the brand's signature speakeasy aesthetic with a sophisticated neighborhood dining experience. The h.wood name is what to notice. John Terzian and Brian Toll's Los Angeles-based hospitality and marketing group is behind high-end restaurant and nightlife destinations such as Delilah, The Nice Guy, The Bird Streets Club and Harriet's.
Delilah on San Vicente is a specific choice. Brentwood has traded in restaurants that close at ten for thirty years. A lounge concept from an operator whose portfolio runs on later-night energy is a directional bet about who the block wants to serve after 9 p.m.
Three incoming operators, three different formats, one shared read on the strip: variety and identity matter more than a single kitchen carrying a room.
What has not changed, and why that matters
Zoom out from the construction fencing and Sunday morning still looks exactly like Sunday morning. That is not incidental. It is the reason operators keep writing checks for San Vicente addresses.
The farmers market is the metronome. Every Sunday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., the market brings together local farmers, artisans, and vendors adjacent to the Brentwood Country Club, at the corner of San Vicente Blvd and Gretna Green Way. The Brentwood Certified Farmers' Market operates at 741 Gretna Green Way, Sunday, year round, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The market has also absorbed a piece of a lost neighbor. It has been kind to include vendors from the destroyed Pacific Palisades Farmers Market, and it is comforting to go there and see the familiar vendors from the Palisades. If you have wondered why a booth or two looks new but familiar this year, that is why.
Then there is the Country Mart, whose stability is almost the point. The Brentwood Country Mart is a local shopping center in the Brentwood district of Los Angeles, next to the Santa Monica eastern city limit; first opened on November 18, 1948, it is a 30,000 square foot shopping center located at 225 26th Street just south of San Vicente Boulevard. The tenant list reads like a shorthand for what does not need to change:
- Reddi Chick for chicken, Barney's for burgers, Frida for tacos, Edelweiss candy shop, Sweet Rose Ice Cream, and Diesel bookstore.
- Farmshop, whose bakery offers house-made croissants, muffins and cookies, and whose market features a carefully selected assortment of prepared foods, charcuterie, cheese, chocolate, produce, wine and beer.
- Free family programming on the courtyard schedule, including Mart Littles Story Time on Wednesday mornings through August.
That last piece is the quiet asset. A commercial center that runs weekday morning story time in 2026 is not a shopping center. It is a park with retail attached.
Reading the strip
If you want a single frame for what is happening on San Vicente right now, it is this: the operators who are still running full-service, single-concept restaurants on the block are being flanked. On one side by Neighborly, which spreads risk across six kitchens. On the other by Montana's, which imports a brand and a nightlife crowd that Brentwood has not historically served past 10 p.m. Pérse is the wildcard, a bar program above the retail line that will either read as a natural extension of Brentwood Gardens or as a new center of gravity a floor up.
None of this changes the Sunday walk. The market still spills onto Gretna Green at nine. The Country Mart still has the fire pit going by five. What changes is Tuesday and Friday. What changes is whether your default takeout is one restaurant or four under one roof, and whether the block quiets down at ten the way it always has.
For residents already here, the practical move over the next twelve months is small: watch the buildout at 11770, keep an eye on the third-floor lights at 11677, and hold your judgment on 11920 until the doors actually open in 2027. Brentwood's commercial corridor rewards patience, and it punishes tenants who guess wrong about what the neighborhood actually wants.
If you own a home along San Vicente or in the surrounding streets and are curious how these shifts read against your block, Simon Mashian is available for a quiet, no-pressure conversation. Let's Connect.
