The Auctioneers, Inverness

A food led pub with a Greene King bias, solos and T-bars offer a dreary range of lager, cider and Guinness. More than a couple of the beers are Greene King brands. Once past a small seating area at the front you enter an expanded space with the counter on the right and a mix of high and low tables to the left. Lots of screens, some on news channels and the usual piped music, a machine lurks in one corner and a couple more under the stairs to the toilets near a pool table. An industrial ceiling is fitted in this undistinguished building.

Official site of The Auctioneers - www.belhaven.co.uk

Official site of The Auctioneers - www.belhaven.co.uk

This is a commodious, high ceilinged modern lounge/diner with lots of seating and standing room. The majority of customers were drinking, however, and there was a good range of beers available on the long bar top. Guinness was £3.55 a pint and Belhaven Best, Strongbow cider and Tennent's, Stella Artois, Carling, Peroni, Punk IPA and Coors lagers were also on draught. There were two muted TV screens and pop music playing on the juke box. All in all, the Auctioneers was rather bland and unremarkable, but without anything to really complain about.