A Brentwood Sunday In 2026: How San Vicente Became A Food Corridor
Something changed about the Sunday shuffle between 26th Street and Barrington this spring, and you can feel it if you have lived here long enough to remember when the choice was Farmshop or a Reddi Chick pickup and that was the whole conversation. The Brentwood Certified Farmers' Market on Gretna Green Way still opens the day, and the Country Mart still closes it, but the middle of the corridor now has a genuine third act. That is the shift worth understanding, because it changes how you plan a summer weekend without leaving the neighborhood.
The market itself is the same one you already know. Sundays, 9am to 2pm, year-round, tucked onto Gretna Green Way at San Vicente Boulevard next to the Brentwood Country Club. Roughly fifteen bouquet stands, two seafood vendors, a mushroom specialist, twenty-five-plus farm and hot-food stalls, five flower and plant vendors on a full day. Arnett Farms for stone fruit as it comes in, Yong Xiong and Yang's Produce for the harder-to-find Asian vegetables, Country Fresh Farms for microgreens.
One quiet change worth naming: since the Palisades market went dark, several of its longtime vendors have folded into Brentwood's Sunday roster. If you were a Palisades regular, look for familiar faces here now. That is where a lot of the extra density on the north end of the row is coming from this summer.
Parking is the price of admission. Street only, and by 10am the residential blocks south of San Vicente are picked over. The workaround most locals use is to walk in from San Vicente along the golf course side, which adds five minutes and removes the circling.
The San Vicente food hall opened Saturday, April 11, 2026, at 11770 San Vicente, and it is the first structural shift in the corridor's dining mix in years. The concept is a curated marketplace where one order can pull from multiple chef counters, and the Brentwood lineup was announced with four names that each carry their own following:
The reason this matters, and the reason I would argue it has quietly reordered the neighborhood, is that it competes head-on with the Country Mart's food courtyard for the same use case: a mixed group who cannot agree, wants to eat outdoors, and has an hour. For twenty years the answer to that was one block east. Now there are two answers, and they are meaningfully different.
Here is the honest comparison as a local would draw it up:
| Brentwood Country Mart | Neighborly Brentwood | |
|---|---|---|
| Opened | 1948 | April 11, 2026 |
| Anchor food | Reddi Chick, Barney's, Frida, Farmshop | Palermo Pizza, Mini Kabob, Mixtape, What Gaby's Cooking |
| Order style | Each counter separately | One order across all counters |
| Also on site | Diesel Bookstore, Sweet Rose, Edelweiss, Poppy, Jenni Kayne, Goop | Gourmet marketplace with fresh and frozen retail |
| Vibe | Barn architecture, fire pit courtyard, since Truman | New build, San Vicente frontage |
The Mart still wins on atmosphere and on Reddi Chick, which no food hall in the country has replicated. Neighborly wins on the specific problem of feeding four people who each want something different, which is the exact problem a Sunday afternoon tends to present.
If you have not walked through 225 26th Street in a few months, the Mart has been leaning into its family programming in a way the Instagram grid does not fully capture.
Wednesday Story Time, hosted by Cassidy Preschool in the courtyard, runs 11am to 12pm every Wednesday from May 13 through the end of August. Stories, songs, morning fun for kids under five. This is the sort of small, consistent, hyperlocal thing that gets a stroller crowd showing up on a weekday morning and staying for coffee at Caffe Luxxe or ice cream at Sweet Rose.
Farmshop still does its holiday pre-orders in the way that separates locals from visitors. Father's Day this year was root beer floats and pre-order fried chicken from noon to 2pm. If you have never done the pre-order route for a Farmshop holiday meal, that is the difference between a two-hour wait and a fifteen-minute pickup.
Anchors worth remembering because they are not going anywhere: Diesel Bookstore, Sweet Rose Creamery, Edelweiss candy, Poppy for kids, Toy Crazy, the mini carousel that pulls the four-year-olds like gravity, and the post office substation that has been operating since the Mart opened in 1948 and is one of the few of its kind still tucked inside a shopping center in Los Angeles.
Two openings are shifting the surrounding blocks and both are worth putting on your radar.
Savta, the handroll bar that started at the Original Farmers Market, opened a second, larger location at 906 S Barrington Avenue. The menu carries over from the original: tuna with truffle and jalapeño, red snapper with yuzu kosho and cilantro, an uni-caviar-toro roll. The weekday lunch move is the $32 set that pairs an appetizer with three handrolls, which is quietly one of the better sit-down lunch values in the neighborhood at that price.
Montana's, from the h.wood Group behind Delilah and Harriet's, is slated for early 2027 at 11920 San Vicente Boulevard. The pitch from the group is a restaurant and lounge with a clubhouse feel. Whether that lands or reads as imported Sunset Strip is the neighborhood conversation nobody has had yet. Worth knowing it is coming, worth reserving judgment.
Meanwhile, one small loss for the corridor: Pop's Bagels has moved its bagel-making operation out of Brentwood to Santa Monica. The relocation was prompted by a similarly named Popup Bagels arriving down the street. Weekend bagel logistics for locals just changed by a few miles.
The way to actually use all of this in a single day, if that is what you want:
Brentwood's Sunday used to have one center of gravity, split loosely between the market at Gretna Green and the Country Mart at 26th. As of April 2026, there is a third pole in the middle at 11770 San Vicente, and a fourth arriving in early 2027 at 11920. The neighborhood is not turning into a food destination the way Abbot Kinney did. It is doing something more interesting: the same small radius is getting denser, and the density is chef-driven rather than boutique-driven. If you have lived here for a decade, this is the first summer where the walking loop feels genuinely different.
That is a good thing for a resident. It is also, if you happen to be thinking about it, one of the reasons the corridor holds its pricing the way it does. Foot traffic, chef signage, family programming, and a farmers market that has quietly absorbed a neighboring community's vendors are not accidents. They are the reasons Brentwood keeps being Brentwood.
If you are curious what all of this means for your block specifically, or you are weighing a move within the neighborhood as the corridor shifts, Stacy Young has spent three decades watching how these small shifts add up on the Westside. Request Your Free Home Valuation to see where your address sits in the current market.
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