For most of the last decade, a Bel Air summer meant driving. Down Beverly Glen to Sunset for dinner. Over Roscomare and onto the 405 for a concert. Across to Brentwood or Westwood for anything that felt like a night out. The Glen Centre held the daily errands and a jazz room, the Skirball ran a summer series, the Getty stayed open late on Saturdays, and residents stitched the pieces together as needed.
Summer 2026 is the first season in a while where the pieces have quietly rearranged themselves into something closer to a self-contained schedule. A new tenant is on the way to 2958 Beverly Glen Circle. The Skirball is running its most concert-dense July in years. The Getty is holding two Thursday-night sets of its own and a summer parking window that changes the math on an evening visit. None of it is a headline on its own. Together it is a shift in where a Bel Air week actually happens.
The Taco Stand Signal at 2958 Beverly Glen Circle
The most concrete change at the Glen Centre this summer is a lease. The Taco Stand, the San Diego-born taqueria known for drawing long lines from La Jolla to Miami, is lining up a spot at the Glen Centre in Beverly Glen, with filings and the brand's own listings pointing to the compact storefront at 2958 Beverly Glen Circle as the planned Los Angeles address, giving the fast-casual outfit its first foothold on the Westside. What Now first reported the planned Los Angeles location and noted that an ABC permit application has been filed for the site, with paperwork listing 2958 Beverly Glen Circle as the proposed address and the filing dated July 7, 2026.
Why the address matters more than the brand: the Glen Centre has been overwhelmingly full-service and evening-oriented for years. Vibrato, Il Segreto, SHU, and Fabrocini's all sit on a dinner clock. The daytime side of the plaza has run on Starbucks, Jayde's Market, and Sweet Butter Kitchen. A counter-service taqueria at the front of the property tilts the center's midday weight noticeably. It also gives residents another walkable option that opens earlier than the reservation rooms.
The property's own leasing materials frame the shift in language a resident will recognize:
The leasing packet touts nearly 1,000,000 annual visits and an average household income above $200,000 within a one-mile radius, figures the property manager uses to entice national and regional operators.
A brand that opened its first shop in La Jolla in 2013 and expanded into Miami and Dallas does not sign a Beverly Glen lease casually. The signal is that the Center is being pitched, and taken, as a daytime destination and not only an evening one. No opening date has been announced yet, and the alcohol filing suggests the permit process is still in motion.
What the Rest of the Center Actually Looks Like Right Now
For a resident who has not walked the plaza in a few months, the current tenant map is worth setting down in one place:
- Vibrato Grill Jazz at 2930 Beverly Glen Circle, conceived by seven-time GRAMMY-winning music icon Herb Alpert and opened in 2004 as part of the Smith Brothers Restaurant group, still runs live music Tuesday through Sunday.
- Il Segreto, the Giacomino Drago room tucked at the end of a covered corridor at the back of the Glen Centre atop Beverly Glen at Mulholland Drive, holds the plaza's Italian dinner slot.
- SHU (Sushi House Unico), also a Drago project, sits at 2932 ½ Beverly Glen Circle with its Japanese-Italian fusion menu.
- Jayde's Market, Starbucks, and Sweet Butter Kitchen anchor the everyday-needs side of the property.
- 2958 Beverly Glen Circle now reads "coming soon" on The Taco Stand's own locations page.
That is the block, in July 2026. Read it as a group and the shape is clear: the Center has quietly built a lineup that covers morning coffee, a weekday lunch, an early family dinner, and a late jazz set without a car trip in between.
Thursdays Belong to the Skirball Again
The other summer anchor is a mile up Sepulveda. The Skirball Cultural Center kicks off the 29th season of the Sunset Concerts free live music series with Cory Henry and The Funk Apostles and Katalyst on Thursday, July 16, at 7 p.m. The theme this year is a tribute to the uniquely American musical invention of jazz.
The full Thursday-night calendar for anyone building a summer around it:
| Date | Headliner | Second act |
|---|---|---|
| July 16 | Cory Henry and The Funk Apostles | Katalyst |
| July 23 | Terrace Martin Plays Miles | Brandee Younger |
| July 30 | Tortoise | Kassa Overall |
| August 6 | Annie and The Caldwells | The Campbell Brothers |
There are two performances a night, 7 p.m. and 8:15 p.m., and all concertgoers are invited to arrive at 6 p.m. to take in the exhibits at the cultural center or enjoy a snack or sip. Parking is $20 and street parking is not permitted, and while admission is free the series runs on a first-come, first-served basis with no reservations.
The concerts are paired with two exhibitions that are worth timing a visit around. "Outsiders, Outcasts, Rebels + Weirdos: Punk Culture 1976-86" is on view through Sept. 6. Alongside it, the Skirball presents "Robert Russell and Lisa Edelstein: A Palace in Time" running through Sept. 6, an exhibition that reflects on how memory lives within objects and rituals, drawing inspiration from Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel's description of the Sabbath as a palace in time. For residents, that is two months of a serious museum program at a five-minute drive from most Bel Air addresses.
The Getty's Summer Runs on a Different Clock
Down the hill on Getty Center Drive, the calendar looks different but points the same way. The free outdoor concerts at the Getty Center museum include aja monet on May 30, Hunx and His Punx on June 13, Leenalchi on July 11, Horse Lords on July 25 and Laurel Halo on Aug. 22. Two of those, Horse Lords and Laurel Halo, still sit ahead on the summer calendar as of mid-July.
Saturdays at the Getty Center include late-night hours, with the site open until 9 p.m. and free parking after 6 p.m., and guests are encouraged to bring a warm jacket or a blanket for the outdoor concerts, with Trellis Bar & Lounge open with specialty food and art-themed cocktails. For anyone who has resisted the museum because of the drive-up and the parking fee, the free-after-six Saturday rhythm is the thing to know.
There is also a narrow, practical window residents should not miss. Getty's Special Summer Parking runs June 11th to July 19th: parking is $25 per car or motorcycle, $15 after 3pm, and free after a later cutoff. That window closes in the same week as the second Skirball concert, which is a coincidence worth using rather than ignoring.
The exhibition side is in a fresh cycle as well. Getty's current on-view schedule includes two shows that opened at the Center on June 23 and run through October 18, and a third that opened July 14 and runs through the same October window. For a resident who visited in April and skipped the reopening, the walls are different now.
A Bel Air Week in July, If You Never Left the Hill
Put the calendar in one shape and the change becomes obvious. A Wednesday morning coffee at Sweet Butter, a Thursday early dinner at Il Segreto or SHU before the 7 p.m. Skirball set, a Saturday late-afternoon walk through a new Getty exhibition and a jacket-required Off the 405 show, a Sunday night jazz reservation at Vibrato. Every stop on that week sits within the same three-mile hillside triangle.
Two years ago the same week would have required Beverly Hills, Brentwood, or a trip across the canyon to Ventura Boulevard. What has shifted is not a headline opening. It is a density: enough concurrent programming, at enough different price points and formats, that the practical case for staying on the hill has caught up with the aesthetic one.
What This Adds Up To
The Glen Centre is not becoming a new neighborhood. The Skirball's Sunset Concerts are in their 29th season, and the Getty's summer hours are a familiar rhythm. What is genuinely different in the summer of 2026 is the alignment. A daytime tenant is coming into a plaza that was almost entirely evening-driven. Two hillside cultural institutions are running overlapping Thursday and Saturday programs with free admission and manageable parking. The exhibitions at both venues run through early fall, so residents who are away in August still have September.
For anyone who has lived here long enough to remember the summers when the calendar meant driving, this one is worth noticing while it is happening. The version of Bel Air that has always been quietly self-sufficient in its architecture and its streets is, for a few months, self-sufficient in its evenings too.
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