Number 27, Inverness

Official site of Number 27 - www.number27inverness.co.uk

Official site of Number 27 - www.number27inverness.co.uk

Modern wine bar opposite castle, ok, nothing special

This has the feel of a continental café bar, the front part having a glazed roof which became a sun trap on the unexpectedly summery afternoon of my visit. The bar, slightly further back and on the right, reinforces this French or Belgian feel, though this is dispelled somewhat by the presence of four hand pumps serving two beers from local Cromarty brewery and two other Scottish ales that I failed to make a note of. The front windows carry semi-permanent advertisements for Real Ale Saturdays (when 10 real ales are said to be available - though I presume these are in bottles as there were only the four on the bar) and Continental Sundays (when again the 20 beers from 11 different countries must be mostly bottles, I imagine). On the subject of bottles, Tomlinson's Beer Shop is just a few paces up towards the castle and is well worth a visit if you're in this part of town.