Most summers in Brentwood look like the last one. This one doesn't. The Getty Center is programming its final "Off the 405" season before shutting its doors for roughly a year of renovation, and San Vicente Boulevard is quietly rearranging itself around a food hall that didn't exist in April. If you already live here, the calendar you build between now and Labor Day is going to look different from anything you've assembled in this neighborhood before.
Here's what to actually do with it.
The Getty Summer That Won't Repeat
The single most useful fact for a Brentwood resident this year: the Getty Center will close for a year of planned improvements before the Olympics, from March 2027 through early 2028. That means the "walk out the door, drive up the hill, catch a concert" muscle memory you've built goes dormant after August.
Two things to know about the final "Off the 405" season:
- It began May 30 with aja monet and closes August 22, with Hunx and His Punx, Leenalchi, Horse Lords, and Laurel Halo also on the 2026 schedule.
- Each Saturday performance starts at 7:30pm, preceded by a DJ set at 6pm, and while parking drops to $15 after 3pm, the Getty offers free parking on Saturdays after 6pm.
If you've never bothered with the reservation dance, this is the summer to bother. Entry is complimentary but requires advance booking, and tickets open about three weeks ahead of each show.
On the exhibition side, the Getty is timing something worth walking through more than once. The J. Paul Getty Museum is launching a comprehensive retrospective dedicated to French Symbolist master Odilon Redon, titled "Odilon Redon: Otherworldly Visions," which opens July 14 and runs through October 18, 2026. The show pairs his early charcoal "noirs" with his later shift into color, and it's structured as a full arc rather than a sampler. The museum has scheduled an "Odilon Redon Salon: Words and Music" for 4pm on Saturday, July 18, blending a lecture and live concert, and will offer free public printmaking workshops on select Sundays throughout July and August.
A practical note if you drive up on a weekend: special summer parking from June 11 to July 19 is $25 per car or motorcycle, $15 after 3pm, and free after the evening cutoff. Budget the arrival window accordingly.
San Vicente Is Eating Differently This Year
The bigger structural change is at street level. Neighborly, the multi-restaurant kitchen and gourmet marketplace that debuted in Westlake Village in 2024, opened its Brentwood location on San Vicente Boulevard with concepts from Gaby Dalkin, Questlove, and Mini Kabob, plus Frank Pinello's Palermo Pizza Club. The signage went up at 11770 San Vicente Blvd, and the doors opened Saturday, April 11 at 11:00am after final sign-offs from the city.
The reason this matters more than any single restaurant opening: the format solves the household veto problem. If you have a family or group of friends who don't want the same thing, you can pick and choose from among four chef-crafted menus, or take something home from Neighborly's gourmet marketplace with fresh and frozen options. For a Brentwood block that has historically forced a single-restaurant decision, that's a real change in weeknight logistics.
What's Actually on the Menu
A few specifics worth knowing before you go:
- Gaby's is chef and cookbook author Gaby Dalkin's California-inspired eatery; Mini Kabob is the Mediterranean grill led by chef Armen Martirosyan and his family, a repeat name on the Los Angeles Times "101 Best Restaurants" list; and Mixtape is Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson's modern burger and chicken tender concept, known for gluten-free, seed-oil-free fried chicken sandwiches.
- Dishes include Gaby's Caesar Avocado Wrap and Chinese Chicken Crunch Salad, Mixtape's OGB Royale Cheeseburger and crispy chicken tender box, and Mini Kabob's Original Mini Kabob Wrap and Mamma Alva's Favorite Plate.
Neighborly isn't the only new address. Savta, from the Original Farmers Market, has expanded to a second, more spacious Brentwood spot at 906 S Barrington Ave 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; the weekday lunch special is an appetizer and three handrolls for $32. And a third project is nearing readiness at Brentwood Gardens: Pérse, a new dining concept, is preparing to open at 11677 San Vicente Blvd on the third floor of Brentwood Gardens, with a change of use from office to restaurant approved by Los Angeles City Planning and a full liquor license included.
Read those three together and a pattern shows up. The corridor that used to trade in reliable, familiar Brentwood staples is being rewritten in a single calendar year around chef-driven, marketplace-style concepts. If you've been on autopilot ordering from the same three places since 2022, this summer is the moment your reflexes get stale.
The Sunday Shape of the Week
The one thing that hasn't changed, and shouldn't: the Sunday farmers' market. Every Sunday from 9am to 2pm, the market brings local farmers, artisans, and vendors together at the corner of San Vicente Boulevard and Gretna Green Way, adjacent to the Brentwood Country Club. The address is 741 Gretna Green Way, Sunday, year-round, 9:00am to 2:00pm.
Two pieces of local texture that a first-time visitor wouldn't know:
This market 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.
That's a small thing and a big thing at the same time. If you've been wondering where a specific Palisades vendor went, Gretna Green on Sunday is a good place to check.
The second: the market is huge, and the surrounding residential area south of the market gets jammed with cars looking for parking that is very hard to find. The workaround most regulars have converged on is street parking on San Vicente Blvd along the golf course, willing to walk five-plus minutes. Arrive before 10am if you want the pick of stone fruit and flowers without the crush.
The Country Mart, If You Have Small Kids
Story Time runs Wednesdays at 11am all summer long, from May 13 through the end of August, hosted by Cassidy Preschool in the Country Mart courtyard. It's the kind of low-effort standing plan that turns a Wednesday morning from a scramble into a routine.
The Mart is also running its usual mixed programming through the summer, including children's story time, sports viewings on the courtyard big screen, and creative workshops. Past summers have hosted free family-friendly classic films on Friday evenings at 6pm in the courtyard, with dinner and treats available from Country Mart merchants. Watch the events calendar as August approaches.
If you haven't been through the tenant mix lately: the Mart's current lineup includes Varley, Orlebar Brown, and Cos Bar, alongside artisanal goods at the Trading Post. Worth a walk-through the next time you're picking up fried chicken from Farmshop.
A Summer Worth Calendaring
Here's the underlying point. Most summers in a mature neighborhood are interchangeable. This one has three specific reasons not to coast:
- The Getty's last "Off the 405" until 2028, which reshapes what a Brentwood Saturday night can look like for the next eighteen months.
- A San Vicente dining corridor that will look meaningfully different by September than it did in March, with Neighborly settling in, Savta expanded, and Pérse on approach.
- A Sunday market that has quietly absorbed vendors from a lost Palisades market, giving it a slightly different character than long-time regulars remember.
If you've lived in Brentwood for a while, the temptation is to assume you already know what the neighborhood does in July. Test the assumption. Walk the Country Mart courtyard on a Wednesday morning, book a Saturday at the Getty before the schedule locks up, and put one Neighborly weeknight on the calendar between now and August.
When the time comes to think about the home itself, whether that's a valuation question, a curiosity about what's trading on your street, or a longer conversation about what selling in a changing corridor looks like, Kati Cattaneo is here to talk through it with the same attention to the neighborhood's specifics that this summer deserves. Work With Kati when you're ready.
