Neighborly Brentwood: Four Celebrity Chefs, One San Vicente Address

Brentwood’s San Vicente corridor has been home to some of the Westside’s most important restaurants for decades, and on April 11 it got one more reason to slow down: Neighborly, the multi-concept food hall and gourmet marketplace that just opened its second-ever location at 11754 San Vicente Blvd. Four restaurant concepts, one address, zero reasons to argue about where to eat tonight.

Neighborly debuted in Westlake Village in late 2024 and immediately generated the kind of genuine neighborhood affection that most new restaurant concepts spend years trying to manufacture. The Brentwood outpost brings a tighter, more West LA–coded lineup: Gaby Dalkin’s What’s Gaby Cooking handling the salad and wrap side of things, the legendary Mini Kabob from Glendale doing exactly what you hope they’re doing, Mixtape—Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s gluten-free fried chicken project—covering the indulgent lane, and Palermo Pizza Club from Frank Pinello of Brooklyn’s Best Pizza anchoring the carb end of the spectrum.

The Concepts at Neighborly Brentwood, Ranked by How Hard We Fought Over Them

Mini Kabob is the anchor. The original Glendale spot has been one of LA’s most beloved family-run restaurants for years—a neighborhood fixture known for clean, bright flavors and zero pretension. The Neighborly version brings those same principles to San Vicente: the Original Mini Kabob Wrap (soft lavash, tender grilled meat, fresh herbs) and Mamma Alva’s Favorite Plate are the orders. The wrap is the kind of thing that makes you want to live closer to a Mini Kabob. Which is now, technically, possible if you live in Brentwood.

Mixtape is more surprising than it sounds. Questlove’s fried chicken concept sounds like a celebrity vanity project right up until you actually eat the OGB Royale Cheeseburger or the crispy tenders box. The entire operation is gluten-free, which is a detail that would be conspicuous if the food weren’t good enough to make you forget it entirely. It is. The tenders have a crust that holds its crunch all the way to the last piece, and the OGB Royale has become the go-to order for anyone who walks in without a plan.

“Neighborly solves the oldest problem in group dining: not everyone wants the same thing. Four concepts under one roof means the table can agree to disagree — and that might be the best thing to happen to dinner on San Vicente in years.”

What Gaby’s Cooking (and Why Brentwood Was Always the Right Neighborhood for It)

Gaby Dalkin’s What’s Gaby Cooking is the most on-brand Brentwood addition you can imagine: bright, California-forward, salad-leaning without being punishing about it. The Caesar Avocado Wrap and the Chinese Chicken Crunch Salad are the early hits. The salads are genuinely generous—the kind that don’t leave you quietly calculating your next meal before you’ve finished this one. If you’ve followed Gaby’s cookbooks or her online following, the transition to a food hall counter feels natural; the flavors are exactly what you’d expect, executed with the consistency of a restaurant, not a passion project.

Palermo Pizza Club rounds things out with Sicilian-style pies that lean square, thick, and aggressively caramelized on the bottom. Frank Pinello’s Best Pizza in Brooklyn made him something of a cult figure in the pizza-nerd world, and his West Coast debut in the best new food hall in Brentwood deserves attention from anyone who thinks the LA–versus–New York pizza debate is settled. It isn’t.

Why This Is the Best New Food Hall Brentwood Has Seen

The food hall model has a spotty track record in LA. Too many have leaned on the concept as a shortcut—filling square footage with middling tenants and calling it curation. Neighborly works because it starts from a different premise: find chefs whose food people are already obsessed with, then build a room around them. Mini Kabob didn’t need Neighborly to have a loyal following; neither did Questlove’s Mixtape. The result is a food hall where the individual concepts feel like the point, not the container.

San Vicente has Matu Kai for wagyu, the Wilkes for steaks, and now Neighborly for everything else. If you live on the Westside and have been making the drive to Glendale for Mini Kabob, or hunting down Questlove’s chicken, or debating whether the best Sicilian pizza in LA is worth the parking situation—the commute just got considerably shorter.