As restaurant critic Ari LeVaux explains in this week’s Food section, IVB Canteen isn’t situated in some cutesy walkable community. “The only reason you’d be in the neighborhood is if you were lost or perhaps having some custom plastics manufactured nearby.” But a glass of Slow Down Brown and a brie-filled Frenchy sandwich are enticing reasons to slip out of work a few minutes early and onto Il Vicino Brewery Canteen’s lively patio.
Not so. I was riding up the bike path along the north Diversion Channel and I heard drums and amplified guitar. I turned toward the sound, figuring I would find a metal band with a practice space in an abandoned garage. Instead I found a pretty decent jazz combo playing on the patio of the Canteen. And BEER!
