Walk down Rodeo Drive this month and you'll see cranes, not tables. Cartier's three-story boutique has already opened at 370 N. Rodeo. Louis Vuitton is mid-construction on a 45,000-square-foot Frank Gehry building. Bulgari is remodeling its flagship. If you came looking for a dinner reservation, you came to the wrong street.
The kitchens went one block over. Beverly Drive and North Canon Drive are absorbing almost every restaurant opening Beverly Hills has seen this year, while Rodeo itself stays a runway for jewelry cases and handbags. That split isn't a coincidence of real estate timing. It's a pattern you can trace address by address, and once you see it, it changes where you actually plan your evening.
The address pattern, if you're counting
Here's what's landing where, using the addresses on file rather than the general "coming to Beverly Hills" language most coverage settles for:
| Address | What opened there | What it replaced or joined |
|---|---|---|
| 267 N. Canon Dr. | Bad Roman, an Italian concept from the team behind Zou Zou's and Don Angie | New build |
| 453 N. Canon Dr. | Azur, a French Mediterranean spot led by chef Eric Cuenin | Former Tatel space |
| 235 N. Canon Dr. | Hi Bake, French and Asian-inspired pastry | Sits across from The Maybourne |
| 301 N. Beverly Dr. | Sant Ambroeus, targeted for the end of 2026 | Former Il Fornaio space |
| 233 S. Beverly Dr. | Layla Bagels | New build |
| 435 N. Camden Dr. | Gravitas, a members-only club with an open-air garden bar | New build |
| 9291 Burton Way | Costa Covo Osteria, inside L'Ermitage | Part of L'Ermitage's lobby-level redesign |
| 9850 Wilshire Blvd. | Baldi and Gemma, both inside the Waldorf Astoria | Gemma replaced the old JG rooftop |
Not one of those addresses is on Rodeo Drive. Meanwhile the Rodeo corridor itself is absorbing Cartier, the Louis Vuitton flagship, and Bulgari's remodel. Two separate categories of investment are happening on two separate streets, and if you've been reading the retail headlines and wondering where all the new restaurants actually are, that's your answer: Beverly Drive, Canon, Camden, and Burton Way.
What's already open, not just announced
A few names on that list have been operating long enough that they're no longer news, they're just where people go. Marea Beverly Hills, the West Coast outpost of the Michelin-recognized New York original, is running. Levain Bakery and its six-ounce cookies are here. All'Antico Vinaio, the Florence sandwich shop, is up and slicing.
One name is worth a correction if you haven't been paying attention: the 88 Club, Mei Lin's supper-club concept, had a short run and has since become Tiger Tiger, a Chinese-American spot with a former Jiang Nan Spring chef in the kitchen and a $50 lobster dish that, for Beverly Hills, reads as a bargain. If you booked a table at 88 Club in your head and never went, you're booking Tiger Tiger now.
Layla Bagels on South Beverly Drive has become the kind of neighborhood fixture people mention without thinking twice, alongside a full coffee and matcha menu. Gravitas, on North Camden, functions as a members-only club rather than a walk-in restaurant, with an open-air garden bar under a retractable roof. Costa Covo Osteria, inside L'Ermitage on Burton Way, is serving market-fresh crudo and handmade pasta as part of that hotel's broader lobby-level redesign.
What's still "coming," and how far off that really is
Sant Ambroeus is the one everyone keeps asking about, and the honest answer is: not yet, but soon. The Milanese institution, founded in 1936 and a fixture in New York, the Hamptons, and Aspen, signed a long-term lease at Beverly Drive and Dayton Way for what will be its largest location anywhere. The opening is targeted for the end of 2026. Until then, the corner sits as a construction site with a very specific future.
Bad Roman on Canon is in a similar spot, staffing up rather than seating guests, with a giant neon orange snake motif on the exterior signaling the maximalist Italian menu inside once the doors open. Azur, the French Mediterranean concept from the team behind Lou Lou in Santa Monica, is slated for this fall in the former Tatel space.
The practical takeaway if you live here: check before you plan a night around any of these three. "Coming to Beverly Hills" and "open in Beverly Hills" are not the same sentence right now.
This week at Greystone
None of that restaurant math matters if you're planning your Wednesday around dinner. It matters more if you're planning your weekend around Greystone Mansion, because that's where the actual event calendar is right now, not Rodeo Drive.
Gatsby Redux returns to Greystone Mansion & Gardens on September 16, 17, and 19, at 6:30 p.m. Mixed eMotion Theatrix first staged the production here in 2022 and has brought it back for 2024, 2025, and now 2026, making this its fourth run on these grounds. The piece itself started life somewhere more unlikely: it was originally commissioned by the Los Angeles Music Center for the Blue Ribbon Garden at Walt Disney Concert Hall before it became a Beverly Hills fixture.
The format hasn't changed. You follow dancers across Greystone's terraced grounds, on grass, slate, and stairs, so comfortable shoes matter more than they sound like they should. Guests are encouraged to arrive between 6 and 6:30 p.m. in 1920s dress for photos on the terrace before the performance starts. Tickets run $30 for Beverly Hills residents and $35 for non-residents, available through the city's event page.
The rest of the fall calendar
Once Gatsby Redux wraps, the next fixed date on the calendar sits a few blocks south at Beverly Gardens Park. The Beverly Hills Art Show, now in its 55th year, returns October 17 and 18, stretching across four blocks of the park with roughly 250 artists from Southern California and beyond. If you've walked the park before but never during the show, it's a different park that weekend, closer to an outdoor gallery than a green space.
The Farmers' Market on Civic Center Drive keeps its Sunday rhythm through the fall, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., and adds its Fall Funtastic Harvest Festival on October 25, with seasonal activities layered onto the usual produce stalls and vendors. It's a smaller, more local counterpart to the Art Show, the kind of Sunday that doesn't make headlines but fills the actual calendar of people who live here.
What this adds up to
Put the two halves together and Beverly Hills this fall has a shape to it that the retail headlines miss entirely. The Rodeo Drive investment cycle, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, Bulgari, is real and it's large, but it's not where you're eating or where you're spending a Saturday. That's happening one block over on Beverly Drive and Canon, and up in the hills at Greystone, where the terraced lawn hosts a 1920s dance production three nights this week and a park four blocks long turns into an art fair next month.
If you already live here, none of this changes anything about your address. It just means the next time someone asks what's new in Beverly Hills, you can tell them it's not on Rodeo Drive at all.
For a deeper look at how the neighborhood's blocks fit together beyond this fall's calendar, the Beverly Hills neighborhood guide and the earlier walk through Beverly Gardens Park's full 23 blocks cover the rest of the ground.
If the fall calendar has you thinking further ahead than dinner reservations, whether that's a move within Beverly Hills or a look at what your home could be worth in this market, Tom Dolezel is a call away.
