The Snow Goose is a good choice to eat if you happen to be staying in the Holiday Inn Express - they are next door to each other, just off the A96 Nairn Road on the edge of Inverness.
It’s a well-maintained and comfortable pub-type restaurant, with more emphasis on the food than the drinking side of things. Its location on a retail park just outside town will mean that most people using the Snow Goose will be driving to get there, so it's never going to be full of people enjoying a heavy drinking session. That said, the range and quality of beers is especially good.
Food-wise there is a good bar menu with starters from about £3 and main courses from about £6.50 (fish & chips, steak pie & chips). Prices go up to about £10-£12 for something like a fillet steak, sea bass or duck. Deserts came in at about £2.50-£4.50.
I had fish and chips, and the quality was good. This must have been fairly typical, however, as the Snow Goose had been recommended to me by several Inverness locals with whom I was working at the time. The thing that surprised me most of all was the speed of the service. I had my meal in about 10 minutes.
Overall I'd recommend this place for what it tries to be. A good spot for a filling pub meal with a decent range of menu choices, in a relaxed setting that won't break the bank. Try the Calders 80/- yum yum. Suitable for families. The restaurant, not the beer. Although it does get cold, so ...