Brentwood Gardens, the three-level center at 11677 San Vicente Boulevard, lost two of its best-known tenants within about a year. Ron Herman closed its Brentwood store in October 2023. California Pizza Kitchen had moved out of its second-floor space by the fall of 2024. Neither space went back to clothing or chain dining. The CPK room is now an all-day café. The Ron Herman storefront is set to become a sandwich-and-coffee shop. Upstairs there's a Persian dinner room, and the block across San Vicente has picked up three new food spots of its own.
Put together, that changes what this stretch of San Vicente is for. It used to be a place to shop. It's becoming a place to eat, from early morning to late at night.
Two big rooms, two long waits
| Space at Brentwood Gardens | Former tenant | Gone by | New tenant |
|---|---|---|---|
| Former Ron Herman storefront | Ron Herman | October 2023 | Sacco, sandwiches and coffee |
| Suite 218, former California Pizza Kitchen | California Pizza Kitchen | October 2024 | Café Landwer, all-day Mediterranean café |
The Ron Herman space stayed empty for about three years before a new tenant was announced in the fall of 2026. The CPK space took less time. Toddrickallen.com reported Café Landwer as the incoming tenant in April 2025, a few months after CPK left. Both spaces went to food.
What filled the old pizza room
Café Landwer now runs out of Suite 218, the room California Pizza Kitchen held for years. Its OpenTable listing shows it open daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. A diner review there dated September 25, 2026, shows it was already serving by early fall.
The hours are the main change. CPK was a lunch-and-dinner chain. A café open from breakfast to evening covers the morning too, so that space now serves breakfast.
Upstairs, a reservation-worthy dinner
If Landwer handles the everyday visit, Pérse handles the special occasion. The Persian restaurant was first reported in May 2025 as headed for the center's third floor. It comes from siblings Farinaz "Naz" Pirshirazi and Farbod Pirshirazi. LA Living Magazine traces the concept back to Toranj, their earlier restaurant in Westwood. In the same profile, Naz oversees the guest experience, menu, design and branding, and Farbod focuses on operations.
The schedule is what makes Pérse matter to the building. According to its OpenTable page, Pérse serves:
- Dinner daily, 5 to 10 p.m.
- Lunch on weekdays, 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
- Brunch on Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Dinner until 10 p.m. on the top floor keeps the building active after the shopping hours that used to define it. On the ground floor, Toddrickallen.com reported in July 2025 that Go Greek Yogurt was taking Suite 117. The rest of the center's mix includes Sweetgreen, Ospi, Club Pilates and Drybar.
The Ron Herman space gets a sandwich counter
The storefront that sold Ron Herman fashion is going to Sacco. What Now Los Angeles reported in October 2026 that the concept would focus on sandwiches, coffee served from breakfast through the afternoon, and a short list of salads, with an opening planned for winter 2026. Toddrickallen.com passed along reporting that Italian sub sandwiches would be on the menu.
The founder comes from fashion. Giuseppe Sacco co-founded Italist, a global luxury fashion marketplace, and left the company in 2025. What Now reports that the concept draws on his Sicilian roots and his years living in Milan, New York, Paris and Los Angeles. Some of that background is carrying over. The space, packaging and uniforms are being designed as one brand, and a line called Sacco Editions will offer objects and design collaborations. So a former clothing store becomes a sandwich shop that still sells a few designed objects.
Across San Vicente, the same bet in smaller rooms
The newcomers across the boulevard follow the same pattern as the center, at a smaller scale. All three are casual food spots that opened within roughly a year of each other on the 11600 and 11700 blocks.
PopUp Bagels, 11710 San Vicente. The bagel shop opened on December 19, 2025, its first Los Angeles store, as Eater LA and What Now both reported.
La La Land Kind Cafe, 11698 San Vicente. The Daily News reported that the café opened on November 22, 2025.
Burger She Wrote, 11686 San Vicente. The smashburger shop opened on October 3, 2026. Hoodline describes it as the brand's third and largest Los Angeles location, with 25 seats spread across indoor, outdoor and counter seating. The Oklahoma Smashburger is the signature, made with Snake River Farms American Wagyu, thin onions smashed into the patty, and a King's Hawaiian bun. Co-founder Don "Nuge" Nguyen, a professional skateboarder and Oklahoma native, started the concept in 2021. Co-founder Mikayel Israyelyan told the Westside Current that the team picks locations with a strong community, adding, "We want to be the neighborhood burger shop."
The burger shop also stays open later than anything else in this cluster. The Westside Current lists hours of 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. With PopUp Bagels at the morning end, the two sides of San Vicente now cover nearly the whole day between them.
One block, from first coffee to a late burger
Here is the stretch around 11677 San Vicente sorted by time of day, using the hours each business lists:
- Morning. PopUp Bagels at 11710 or La La Land Kind Cafe at 11698. Café Landwer opens upstairs at Brentwood Gardens at 9 a.m.
- Weekend late morning. Brunch at Pérse, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
- Weekday lunch. Pérse serves lunch from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and Burger She Wrote opens at 11:30 a.m. Sacco's planned menu of sandwiches and coffee through the afternoon fits this slot too.
- Early dinner. Café Landwer serves until 9 p.m., which works for an easy weeknight meal.
- A sit-down evening. Pérse serves dinner from 5 to 10 p.m. every day.
- Late. Burger She Wrote, open until 10 p.m. most nights and 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
Five years ago, the anchors at this address were a fashion boutique and a pizza chain. Today the same two spaces hold an all-day café and a planned sandwich-and-coffee counter, with a Persian dinner room upstairs and a 25-seat burger shop across the street.
If you live near this part of San Vicente and want to know how blocks like this one affect what buyers ask about, or what nearby homes are worth, Kyle Leibovitch is happy to talk it through. He manages Rodeo Realty's Brentwood office on San Vicente. Schedule a consultation.
