Between December 2025 and this month, San Vicente Boulevard picked up a bagel shop, a multi-kitchen food hall, a 25-seat smash burger restaurant and a coffee kiosk. A sandwich-and-coffee shop and an all-day cafe are both under construction. At every one of them, you order before you sit. Almost every one of them also built a following somewhere else in Los Angeles before opening a Brentwood location.
Together these openings set the pattern for how the boulevard is changing. The new arrivals are proven names with short menus and counter service, and they are clustered along one stretch of San Vicente between Brentwood Gardens and 26th Street. Here is what's open and when it runs, plus what's coming to the corner of 26th next.
The food hall at 11754 San Vicente
The largest new space is Neighborly, at 11754 San Vicente Blvd. Brentwood News reported that it opened on Saturday, April 11, 2026, at 11 a.m., after final city sign-offs. It launched with four menus under one roof. Chef Gaby Dalkin runs What's Gaby Cooking. Mini Kabob comes from Chef Armen Martirosyan and his family. Mixtape is from Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, and Palermo Pizza Club is Frank Pinello's West Coast pizza place.
Eater LA's opening coverage listed the launch menus as lavash wraps and plates from Mini Kabob, and chicken sandwiches, chicken burgers, tenders and sundaes from Mixtape. Gaby's handles salads, sandwiches and bowls, and Palermo makes Sicilian pizzas and pasta. The same report described a market with prepared foods and packaged goods, plus dine-in, takeout and delivery.
The lineup had already grown by late spring. A BruinLife review dated May 30, 2026 counted five restaurants, with Social Monk added to the original four. The review says you order at a kiosk and then choose a seat inside or at the sidewalk tables. It also mentions a grab-and-go cooler of salads and a small Swedish candy station stocked by Sockerbit. Brentwood is not Neighborly's first location either. The same review says the concept started in Westlake Village.
Neighborly's official location page lists hours of 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day. When a household can't agree on dinner, one ticket can cover kabob, pizza and a salad.
Two counters a few doors apart
A short walk east, two more openings follow the same formula. Each is a single, focused menu from a brand that already had a following.
PopUp Bagels, 11710 San Vicente. According to Eater LA, the Brentwood shop opened on Friday, December 19, 2025. That makes it the oldest of the openings here, and by next Thursday it will have been open just over ten months.
Burger She Wrote, 11686 San Vicente. The Beverly Press reported on October 1, 2026, that the smash burger brand would open its third and largest location in Brentwood on October 3. The original is on Beverly Boulevard, and a Sherman Oaks location opened in May. Silver Lake and Manhattan Beach are planned next. "Largest" still means small. Westside Current put the room at 25 seats, with green patterned tile on the walls and floor and a row of skateboarding photos honoring co-founder Don "Nuge" Nguyen's career.
The menu is deliberately short. Westside Current describes two burgers, the classic Smash Burger and the Oklahoma Smash Burger, both made with American wagyu. The Oklahoma version presses grilled onions into the patty and adds the house sauce. Fries, grilled cheese and Mexican soda round out the list, and the ranch, spicy mayonnaise and barbecue sauces are made in-house. The Beverly Press identifies the beef as Snake River Farms American wagyu.
Co-founder Mikayel Israyelyan told Westside Current that the team picks locations with strong communities. "We want to be the neighborhood burger shop," he said. The shop is open 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, which makes it one of the later kitchens on this part of the boulevard.
The corner at 26th Street is changing hands
The pattern continues at the west end of the stretch, where Brentwood Town Center sits at the corner of 26th and San Vicente. In the first week of October 2026, LEORA, the Beverly Hills cafe known for its all-day menu, opened in the center's small kiosk, serving coffee and matcha drinks.
The kiosk is a preview of a larger cafe. Across the courtyard, LEORA is building a full all-day cafe in the former Blue Bottle and Kitsu Sushi spaces. Local reporting puts the opening at possibly spring, with no firm date. Until then, LEORA's every day menu at the Beverly Hills location shows what the Brentwood cafe is likely to serve.
The arrangement works much like Burger She Wrote's Brentwood opening. A brand with an established following elsewhere in the city arrives, starts with the simplest version of what it does, and grows into a bigger space.
Sacco is coming to Brentwood Gardens this winter
The next opening on the calendar is at the east end of the stretch. Sacco, a new food and lifestyle concept, plans its first location at 11677 San Vicente Blvd. in Brentwood Gardens, in the space Ron Herman used to occupy. What Now Los Angeles reported on October 1, 2026, that owner Giuseppe Sacco's press release targets a Winter 2026 opening.
Sacco is the one new opening that isn't an expansion of an existing restaurant. Its owner brings a following from another field. Giuseppe Sacco co-founded the luxury fashion marketplace Italist and left the company in 2025, and What Now says the concept draws on his Sicilian heritage and on time spent living in Milan, New York, Paris and Los Angeles. The format is familiar for this stretch. The menu centers on sandwiches, with coffee served from breakfast through the afternoon and a small selection of salads. The space, packaging and uniforms are being designed as one brand, and a line called Sacco Editions will offer objects and collaborations tied to design and culture.
In Brentwood Gardens, What Now lists Cafe Landwer, Club Pilates, Ospi and Drybar among Sacco's future neighbors. Ospi's Brentwood page lists its location at 11677 San Vicente, #200, along with its hours. Cafe Landwer's own Brentwood page gives its address as 11677 San Vicente, Suite 218. More menu details for Sacco are expected closer to opening.
The new stretch from end to end, with a Sunday stop
All of these openings sit close together, so they work as a single outing. Ordered by address from the Brentwood Gardens end toward 26th Street:
- Brentwood Gardens, 11677 San Vicente. Home to Ospi and Cafe Landwer, with Sacco due this winter.
- Burger She Wrote, 11686 San Vicente. Open from 11:30 a.m. daily, with a later close on Friday and Saturday.
- PopUp Bagels, 11710 San Vicente. The longest-running of the new openings, open since December 2025.
- Neighborly, 11754 San Vicente. Five restaurants and a market as of late May, open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- Brentwood Town Center, 26th and San Vicente. The LEORA kiosk for coffee and matcha, with the full cafe under construction across the courtyard.
On Sundays, you can add a stop just off the boulevard. The City of Los Angeles tourism page lists the Brentwood Farmers Market at 741 Gretna Green Way, Sundays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. A morning there pairs easily with a bagel before or a burger after, since Burger She Wrote opens at 11:30.
On Halloween weekend, when this post goes live, Burger She Wrote will be about four weeks old and the LEORA kiosk about a month old. Sacco's winter target and LEORA's spring build-out mean the corridor will look different again by the middle of next year.
I enjoy tracking how San Vicente changes from season to season, and I'm happy to talk about any part of Brentwood, whether that's the new spots on the boulevard or the streets just off it. When you'd like to talk it over, Marshall Peck is here. Let's Connect.