If you walked from Sweetzer to Fairfax along West Third Street two years ago, you passed a corridor of longtime staples with a few gaps in between. Walk it this month and the gaps are gone. A French bistro, an Israeli pita concept, an Arizona coffee roaster, and a strip-mall sake bar have all opened within a few blocks of each other, and the largest construction project the street has seen in a generation is about to finish at the Fairfax intersection.
The short version for people who already live here: your neighborhood is not adding one restaurant or one building. It is quietly finishing a rewrite of its most-used commercial block, and the pieces are close enough together that you can hit three of them on a single walk.
The four openings changing the walk
Régalade, from Jocelyn Bulow and Alessandro Iacobelli of the nearby Italian restaurant Oste, is the Parisian bistro that opened for lunch and dinner in Beverly Grove serving classic French dishes without pretension. The address is 8136 W. 3rd St., and executive chef James LaLonde's menu leans on the format most people come to a bistro hoping for: oysters and wine at the zinc-topped bar, escargot, steak frites with bordelaise, croque madame, and savory buckwheat crepes with smoked salmon and crème fraiche. If you have been driving to the Westside for this kind of meal, that trip is now optional.
Two blocks east, chef Eyal Shani's Miznon opened its first standalone L.A. restaurant in Beverly Grove. The address is 8370 West Third Street, open Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Unlike the food-hall stall most Angelenos know Miznon from, this one has a dedicated bar program with four cocktails exclusive to the Third Street location: a Miznon Margarita with tequila, lime and hot peppers; a Pink Lemon Drop; The OG with whiskey, Angostura and cardamom; and Smoke and Ginger with mezcal and ginger beer. It is the first Miznon in the city that behaves like a full restaurant instead of a counter.
The coffee arrival is Cartel, an Arizona-based roaster whose Beverly Grove cafe looks like a boutique hotel in Scottsdale minus the pool, serving cappuccinos and iced matcha alongside Uncle Paulie's sandwiches and seasonal specials like a mango Tajín matcha latte, with one of the most spacious patios on West 3rd. The patio is the reason to know about it. Outdoor seating with real depth is scarce on this block, and Cartel opened with more of it than any of its neighbors.
The fourth is easy to miss because the signage is deliberately quiet. The peach-logo strip-mall sake bar in Beverly Grove has no connection to the Momofuku restaurant group; the chef used to work at Nobu, and along with sake and beer the menu covers sushi and Korean-inflected izakaya dishes like galbi-glazed steak, sashimi served with ssam, and bibimbap with snow crab and scallops. Strip-mall sushi has a specific meaning in Los Angeles, and this one earns the compliment.
The address book, if you want to plan a walk
- Régalade — 8136 W. 3rd St., French bistro
- Miznon — 8370 W. 3rd St., Israeli pitas and open-kitchen mains
- Cartel — West 3rd, coffee and sandwiches, largest patio on the strip
- The peach-logo sake bar — West 3rd strip mall, sushi and izakaya
- Boul'ange — Fairfax Avenue, a bakery-cafe with a laptop-friendly space
- Fiorelli — a delivery-first pizza worth adding to the rotation if you live near Beverly Grove
Five of those six did not exist in their current form the last time most residents took inventory of their own block.
The bigger change is at Third and Fairfax
Every one of those restaurants sits inside the gravitational field of a construction site most locals have been watching for years. That project has a name now, and a schedule.
An eight-story building with luxury apartments and a new Whole Foods Market near Third Street and Fairfax Avenue is scheduled to open mid-spring in 2026. The residential component, called The Daphne and built by Holland Partner Group above the retail space, contains 311 apartments with amenities including an athletic club, theater and outdoor terrace. The ground-floor retail piece is called Bloom on Third and includes a two-level Whole Foods in 65,000 square feet plus three levels of parking, developed by Regency Centers in partnership with the Arba Group.
The number that matters for anyone who already shops here: Whole Foods will move from its existing 41,000-square-foot store at Third and Fairfax into the new space in the second half of 2026. That is a 59 percent increase in floor area for the same anchor on the same corner. If you have felt the current store hit its ceiling on a Sunday afternoon, that ceiling is being raised by roughly 24,000 square feet.
There is a walkability piece too. New crosswalks will be installed across Third Street at Ogden Drive and across Fairfax Avenue near the rear of the CVS store before the project opens. Two new marked crossings on a corridor this dense is not a small change. It shortens the walk between the Original Farmers Market side of Fairfax and the restaurant side of Third, which until now has required a detour or a jaywalk.
Leasing for The Daphne is expected to begin in December or January, and the building is nearly finished after an eight-year entitlement process.
The Farmers Market has a bigger June than usual
For anyone who already treats the corner of Third and Fairfax as the neighborhood living room, one calendar note. During the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the Original Farmers Market will transform into an official Los Angeles World Cup 26 Fan Zone, hosting four days of match watch parties and soccer-themed festivities June 18 through 21, with games on large viewing screens, beer gardens, interactive experiences, and international food from the market's family-owned eateries. If you have never seen the Market Plaza in full event mode, plan the block accordingly. Parking will not be casual on those four days.
The quieter summer anchor stays in place. The Summer Music Series runs Thursday nights at the Original Farmers Market from June 25 through September 3, 2026, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Market Plaza with a genre-spanning mix of live music. Pair it with a walk down West 3rd and you have a Thursday routine that costs nothing until you sit down at one of the new tables.
The older bones are the reason any of this works
None of the new arrivals would land the way they do if the block did not already have a hundred years of muscle memory. El Coyote opened in 1931 and has sustained its Mexican-restaurant legacy for nearly a century, with wood-paneled rooms, stacked booths, and margaritas that longtime locals still show up for. Inside the Farmers Market itself, Du-Par's has served pancakes since 1938, and Singapore's Banana Leaf still runs cheap, cash-only noodle dishes, with Magee's turning out roasted nuts that hold their own against anywhere in town. A.O.C., Marvin, Oste, and Angelini Osteria remain the reason many residents chose this block in the first place.
The thesis, if it needs stating: West Third has never been a corridor that reinvents itself. It adds. What is different in 2026 is the density of the additions and the timing of the anchor. Four restaurants, one bakery, and a 65,000-square-foot grocery store all landing on the same six-block stretch within a single calendar year is not a normal year for any Los Angeles neighborhood. It is the kind of shift that shows up later in how the block feels on a Saturday morning, not just in a list.
What this looks like as a weekend
Coffee and a laptop hour at Cartel's patio. A walk down Third to the Farmers Market. A Thursday concert if the timing works. Régalade for a proper sit-down dinner or Miznon for something faster and louder. The peach-logo sake bar if you want the low-key finish. All of it within an easy walk of each other, and all of it about to be joined by a Whole Foods you can actually move through on a Sunday.
If you have owned a home in Beverly Grove for a while, this is the moment to notice the block again. If you are thinking about the value of what you already own here, the Barrentine Group is happy to talk through what the corridor is doing to prices on the surrounding streets. Work With Us when you're ready.
