Late last November, a local blogger reported that Sora Temaki Bar was moving into the Contempo Floor Covering store at 908 S. Barrington Avenue. About a week later he had to correct himself. Window paper had gone up, and it showed the space being split. Sora was taking the right side, and Layla Bagels & Coffee was taking the rest.
So one storefront that used to sell carpet now serves bagels in the morning and hand rolls at night. Much of the past year on Barrington has worked the same way. Since November 2025, the street from Brentwood Village down toward Wilshire has added a steakhouse, a smash burger counter, a Southern Italian dining room, a temaki bar, a bagel shop and a Vietnamese pho counter. The locations we could trace all moved into rooms that already existed. The two large projects that would put up new buildings at either end of Barrington are still listed as proposals.
The Village End Started With a Room From 1954
The run of openings started at the north end. The Wilkes opened on November 3, 2025 at 148 S. Barrington Avenue, in the building that used to be Brentwood Restaurant and Lounge. The restaurant shares its name with Alfred Topper Wilkes, the modernist architect who originally designed the building's interior in 1954. Chef Dana Slatkin, who founded Violet in Westwood, worked with Fettle Design and Lewis|Schoeplein Architects to transform that interior and make it much brighter. The result is two dining rooms, a fireplace and a long Rossi marble bar.
Slatkin opened the steakhouse with Brian Rigsby, an alumnus of Animal and Son of a Gun. The menu ranges from molasses bread with salted date butter to a latke-encrusted chicken schnitzel and a 32-ounce rib-eye. Steve Wallace, former owner of Wally's Wine & Spirits, oversees the drinks program with beverage director Charles Miller. Each season the restaurant features one winemaker, and the first was Marc Gagnon of Caldwell Vineyard. The Wilkes serves dinner only. Eater's opening report listed hours of 5 to 10 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and until 11 p.m. Thursday through Saturday.
Across the street at 147 S. Barrington Avenue, For the Win had opened by late November 2025. Its smash burgers come with caramelized onions, and BruinLife listed its hours as 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Terroni took the longest to arrive. Public records show the group applied for a liquor license as "Terroni Brentwood" at 155 S. Barrington Place in January 2024. As of February 2026, no opening date had been announced. By July 9, Brentwood News reported that the restaurant had opened for all-day dining and was taking reservations on Resy.
Terroni Brentwood joins the Beverly Boulevard flagship from 2007, the Dopolavoro wine shop and market from 2016, and La Bettola in Larchmont from 2023. Operating partner Shereen Arazm runs the Los Angeles locations, and the menu centers on house-made pasta, traditional pizza and antipasti, much of it made with ingredients imported from Italy. The room has an open kitchen, a central bar, a semi-private dining area and a patio. The restaurant's site lists daily hours of 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
That makes three Village-end restaurants within one block, with lunch from For the Win and Terroni and a dinner-only steakhouse.
One Former Flooring Store, Two Restaurants
Head south and the 900 block takes the same approach and fits it into a single address.
Sora opened at 908 S. Barrington Avenue on June 4, 2026. It is the second Los Angeles location for the Savta Hospitality Group concept, which first drew attention with its rooftop at The Original Farmers Market. The Brentwood room seats 80. A 36-seat wrap-around temaki bar anchors it, with a 32-seat dining area, a 12-seat cocktail bar and a 12-seat patio around it. The open-style hand rolls include seared Ora King salmon and a Kumamoto red snapper with spicy yuzu. Japanese eggplant and Sanmaruko croquette rolls cover the vegan side. A matcha martini sits on the cocktail list. Founder Vincent Benoliel told The Pride LA that "Brentwood felt like a natural next step for us." Sora is open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Layla Bagels opened in the other half of the store on Tuesday, June 30, a day after a soft launch. Chef Sammi Tarantino announced the opening on Instagram with a tour of the new space, using a bagel as her microphone. The bagels come in plain, everything, sesame and poppy, with gluten-free versions of three of them. Jalapeño cheddar and blueberry bagels come from Original Sunshine. The full bar serves espresso, drip coffee and the strawberry and banana matcha drinks, alongside open- and closed-faced sandwiches, babka and the Layla salad. The brand already had locations in Santa Monica and Beverly Hills.
Because the two share a building, 908 S. Barrington now covers breakfast and coffee in one half and lunch through a 10 p.m. close in the other. One storefront gained two businesses, and neither required new construction.
Near Wilshire, a Pita Counter Became a Pho Counter
At the south end, Vui Ve took over the former Pita Bar + Grill storefront at 1168 S. Barrington Avenue near Wilshire. Owner Lanli Su confirmed it as the third location for the pho and bánh mì concept, following Little Tokyo and North Hollywood, and its first on the Westside. The name means "have fun and be happy" in Vietnamese. When the plan was announced in June, no opening date had been set. Hoodline also reported that state records list a company, Vui Ve BW LLC, at the Barrington address.
Vui Ve's Brentwood ordering page now takes pickup orders at 1168 South Barrington Avenue, and splits each day into lunch and dinner service. On weekdays it runs from 11:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. and again from 4:45 to 8:30 p.m. On weekends it runs from 11:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. and from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Its 8:30 close is the earliest on the street, so it works best for a weeknight takeout order.
The Whole Street on One Card
Address | Now | Previously | Hours as last reported |
|---|---|---|---|
148 S. Barrington Ave. | The Wilkes, steakhouse | Brentwood Restaurant and Lounge, in a building with a 1954 Alfred Topper Wilkes interior | Dinner from 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday |
147 S. Barrington Ave. | For the Win, smash burgers | Not reported | 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. |
155 S. Barrington Pl. | Terroni Brentwood, Southern Italian | Not reported | 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily |
908 S. Barrington Ave. | Sora, temaki bar | Contempo Floor Covering, right side | 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily |
908 S. Barrington Ave. | Layla Bagels, bagels and coffee | Contempo Floor Covering, remaining space | Not published in opening coverage |
1168 S. Barrington Ave. | Vui Ve, pho and bánh mì | Pita Bar + Grill | Pickup for lunch and dinner, closing at 8:30 p.m. |
The Two Corners Still Waiting on New Buildings
Barrington's two busiest intersections are also where the new-construction plans are, and neither has moved past the proposal stage.
At Wilshire, the project Urbanize LA calls Wilshire Barrington would replace the strip mall at 11701 Wilshire Boulevard. The plan includes 152 homes, about 67,000 square feet of offices and 7,000 square feet of ground-floor retail. Urbanize's tracker lists it as a 24-story building with a status of "Proposed," last updated December 3, 2025.
At the north end, 11700 Sunset Boulevard sits on the southwest corner of Sunset and Barrington. When the application was reported in 2018, it was short on detail and needed a zone change and a General Plan amendment. Urbanize still lists it as a proposed apartment, retail and parking project, last updated December 19, 2025. We found no newer status for either project, so both should be treated as unresolved.
One project is a Wilshire tower that has been on file since 2022. The other is a Sunset corner first reported in 2018. Over the same years, the storefronts between them changed tenants and became restaurants.
A Barrington Day, North to South
Using the published hours, here is one way to spend a day on the street.
- Morning at 908 S. Barrington. Start at Layla Bagels with a blueberry bagel from Original Sunshine and a strawberry matcha. Opening coverage did not publish Layla's hours, so check before you go.
- Lunch from 11 a.m. For the Win opens first, at 147 S. Barrington Ave. Sora and Terroni both open at 11:30 a.m.
- Pickup at 1168 S. Barrington. Order pho from Vui Ve during lunch or dinner service. It closes between the two each afternoon and for the night at 8:30 p.m.
- Dinner at the Village end. The Wilkes opens at 5 p.m. Thursday through Saturday it stays open until 11, an hour later than the rest of the street.
- Late hand rolls at 908 S. Barrington. Sora's 36-seat bar serves until 10 p.m. every night.
The Wilkes reworked a 1954 interior and took the name of the architect who designed it, and Sora and Layla split one former flooring store. At Amir Jawaherian, our practice looks at how Brentwood buildings get reused, from a single storefront to a full estate parcel. If you own property along this corridor or in the streets around it, Schedule a Private (Confidential) Consultation to talk through what your building could become next.
