Open
The successor is reported as trading under its new identity.
After Beefeater
Former Beefeaters that have reopened
Summary checked 31 October 2026: 14 former Beefeater buildings have reopened — twelve under Queensway Inns and two under J D Wetherspoon. Find your old Beefeater in the list below, or see all 106 Beefeater restaurants. First Common Table Group reopenings were reported for mid-November; no completion date is confirmed here.
Moor Mill Beefeater beside the River Ver near Radlett in 2014 · Photo: Bikeboy. Photo source ↗ · CC BY-SA 2.0
Reopened so far
The table brings together the fourteen buildings confirmed open in our 31 October checks. Dates show when each source was checked; they are not assumed opening days.
The detailed list below also includes conditional sales and planned conversions.
Common Table’s reported acquisition and timetable spans several Whitbread brands; none of its 57 sites is allocated to a Beefeater here without a published list.
| Former Beefeater | Town | New name | Operator | Reopened | Source and date checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broomside Park | Durham | Broomside Park | Queensway Inns | Exact date not known | Queensway Inns source ↗ · |
| Carnon Inn | Truro | Carnon Inn | Queensway Inns | Exact date not known | Queensway Inns source ↗ · |
| The Farmhouse | Crewe | The Marshfield Bank Farm House | J D Wetherspoon | Exact date not known | J D Wetherspoon source ↗ · |
| Great Yarmouth Seafront | Great Yarmouth | The Dunes | Queensway Inns | Exact date not known | Queensway Inns source ↗ · |
| Griff House | Nuneaton | Griff House | Queensway Inns | Exact date not known | Queensway Inns source ↗ · |
| Moor Mill | Radlett | Moor Mill | Queensway Inns | Exact date not known | Queensway Inns source ↗ · |
| Morris Dancers | Scarisbrick | Morris Dancers | Queensway Inns | Exact date not known | Queensway Inns source ↗ · |
| Oyster Reach | Ipswich | Oyster Reach | Queensway Inns | Exact date not known | Queensway Inns source ↗ · |
| The Plough | Dover | The Plough | Queensway Inns | Exact date not known | Queensway Inns source ↗ · |
| Preston Brook | Runcorn | The Canal House | Queensway Inns | Exact date not known | Queensway Inns source ↗ · |
| Smugglers Haunt | Ferndown | The Cranborne Hundred | J D Wetherspoon | 2026-09-29 | J D Wetherspoon source ↗ · |
| The Three Fish | Newport | The Three Fish | Queensway Inns | Exact date not known | Queensway Inns source ↗ · |
| Twelve Bells | Gloucester | Twelve Bells | Queensway Inns | Exact date not known | Queensway Inns source ↗ · |
| White Hart | Guestling | White Hart | Queensway Inns | Exact date not known | Queensway Inns source ↗ · |
Common Table Group sites
The 7 October announcement covered 57 former Whitbread restaurants and one hotel. Reports put the first reopenings in mid-November 2026; they do not give a confirmed completion date. Our checks did not match a named Beefeater venue to a published Common Table reopening date or successor name, so this section does not assign individual buildings to the group.
Restaurant Online, 7 October 2026 ↗ · How we check sources
No news yet
77 venues have no new operator announced in our records. Check all 106 Beefeater restaurants for the status of a particular building.
How we check
We use operator pages and dated reports, keeping an unknown opening day blank. We plan to check this list fortnightly while reopenings continue. How we research explains our sources and corrections process.
In the news: 12 October 2026
The Express, republished by AOL, reported 110 former Whitbread restaurants returning: 53 under Queensway Inns and 57 under Common Table Group.
These totals cover several restaurant brands, including Brewers Fayre and Table Table. The fourteen former Beefeater entries are the names already in our Queensway list, not fourteen additional reopenings.
Some reports give 53 for Common Table. Its individual site list is still awaited, so no pub is assigned to that business here. Express via AOL, 12 October 2026 ↗ · Herald via Yahoo, 11 October 2026 ↗
Opening date confirmed
The new operator has published a future opening date.
Conditional or planned
A buyer or intended use is known, but completion details remain unpublished.
Planning approval
Works are approved, but completion and an opening date remain unconfirmed.
Open, officially dated or approved
Five buildings. Five evidenced next steps.
These are successor venues with a reported reopening, an operator-published opening date or an approved conversion plan. Those are different stages, so each card says plainly what has happened and what is still planned.
Open
Formerly Great Yarmouth Seafront · Great Yarmouth
The Dunes
Now operated by Queensway Inns
The South Beach Parade Beefeater closed before the national final date and became the first reported Queensway conversion to trade under its new identity.
Open
Formerly The Farmhouse · Crewe
The Marshfield Bank Farm House
Now operated by J D Wetherspoon
Wetherspoon’s live venue record now marks the successor open at the former Beefeater address on Coppenhall Lane. It lists service from 7am daily, closing at midnight Sunday to Thursday and 1am on Friday and Saturday.
Open
Formerly Smugglers Haunt · Ferndown
The Cranborne Hundred
Now operated by J D Wetherspoon
Wetherspoon’s new-openings list now marks the pub ‘OPEN NOW’ at the former Beefeater address on Ringwood Road. The archive does not assign an exact opening day because the operator’s dated pages have conflicted.
Planning approval
Formerly Oast & Squire · Fareham
Toby Carvery (planned)
Planned operator Mitchells & Butlers
Fareham Borough Council approved refurbishment works to the Grade II-listed building.
Reporting on the application identifies Toby Carvery as the intended format, but the record does not confirm a completed handover or opening date.
Under consideration
Formerly The Stanborough · Welwyn Garden City
McDonald’s (proposed)
Applicant McDonald’s Restaurants Ltd
The council’s live record names McDonald’s Restaurants Ltd as applicant and agent for alterations to the former restaurant.
The application remains under consideration: there is no planning approval, confirmed opening date or completed property transaction in the public record checked.
Who are Queensway Inns? Read the company and food guide →
The conditional Queensway list
Fourteen linked names, twelve current Queensway venue pages.
A published 53-site sale schedule labels these 14 properties as Beefeater. Whitbread described the wider transaction as conditional, with Queensway intending to operate the sites as going concerns.
Queensway Inns now publishes current venue pages for twelve matched sites. The remaining entries stay conditional or unresolved.
A live pub page confirms that individual venue is trading; it does not tell us whether every part of the wider property sale has finished.
| Former Beefeater | New name | Status | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broomside ParkDurham | Broomside Park | OpenQueensway Inns now has a live venue page at the former Beefeater address, with current opening hours.Name matches the live Beefeater finder | Checked 8 October 2026 | |
| Carnon InnTruro | Carnon Inn | OpenQueensway Inns now has a live venue page at the former Beefeater address, with current opening hours.Published sale list spells this “Cannon Inn” | Checked 8 October 2026 | |
| Great Yarmouth South Beach RoadGreat Yarmouth | The Dunes | OpenMatched to the Seafront Beefeater, now open as The Dunes.Likely the live finder’s Seafront listing | 20 August 2026 | |
| Great Yarmouth RestaurantGreat Yarmouth | Not reconciled | ConditionalA separate published entry; its identity and outcome are not independently reconciled.Listed separately in the published sale schedule | No opening date | |
| Griff HouseNuneaton | Griff House | OpenQueensway Inns now has a live venue page at the former Beefeater address, with current opening hours.Name matches the live Beefeater finder | Checked 8 October 2026 | |
| Moor MillRadlett | Moor Mill | OpenQueensway Inns now has a live venue page at the former Beefeater address, with current opening hours.Name matches the live Beefeater finder | Checked 8 October 2026 | |
| Morris DancersScarisbrick / Ormskirk | Morris Dancers | OpenQueensway’s live page lists opening hours and welcomes neighbouring Premier Inn guests. The opening day is not published.Name matches the live Beefeater finder | Checked 8 October 2026 | |
| Oyster ReachIpswich | Oyster Reach | OpenQueensway Inns now has a live venue page at the former Beefeater address, with current opening hours.Name matches the live Beefeater finder | Checked 8 October 2026 | |
| Preston BrookRuncorn | The Canal House | OpenQueensway Inns lists the address as The Canal House, Chester Road, Runcorn, WA7 3BA, with current opening hours.Not visible in the 99-name final online list | Checked 8 October 2026 | |
| The PloughDover | The Plough | OpenQueensway Inns now has a live venue page at the former Beefeater address, with current opening hours.Name matches the live Beefeater finder | Checked 8 October 2026 | |
| Three FishNewport | The Three Fish | OpenQueensway Inns lists The Three Fish at Stafford Road, Newport, TF10 9BY, with current opening hours.Not visible in the 99-name final online list | Checked 8 October 2026 | |
| Twelve BellsGloucester | Twelve Bells | OpenQueensway Inns lists Twelve Bells at Ermin Way, Gloucester, GL3 4SS, with current opening hours.Not visible in the 99-name final online list | Checked 8 October 2026 | |
| White HartGuestling / Hastings | White Hart | OpenQueensway Inns now has a live venue page at the former Beefeater address, with current opening hours.Name matches the live Beefeater finder | Checked 8 October 2026 | |
| The Longford InnLongford, Gloucester | Not announced | ConditionalSome press lists put 'The Longford Inn' in Cannock. That is a different pub – the Longford Inn in the Queensway sale is at Longford, Gloucester. Longford House in Cannock is not on that list. No live Queensway pub page was found on 8 October 2026.Historic Beefeater at GL2 9BE; not Longford House, Cannock | No opening date |
A separate planned handover
Two former Beefeaters are earmarked for M&B brands.
Mitchells & Butlers agreed to acquire seven Whitbread sites. The two former Beefeaters below were intended for either Miller & Carter or Toby Carvery, but reporting did not assign a format to each building.
Until it does, this archive will not guess.
Read the transaction report ↗- The AlbertColchesterMiller & Carter or Toby Carvery · format not yet assigned
- The Cross HandsCheltenhamMiller & Carter or Toby Carvery · format not yet assigned
A living list
Dates are recorded, not predicted.
This page changes only when an operator, company statement, hospitality trade title or credible local report adds something material.
“Under new ownership” does not mean “open”, and a proposed brand is not treated as a confirmed sign above the door.
Common Table Group: 57 sites – list awaited
Trade reports on 7 October 2026 named Common Table Group as a buyer of 57 former Beefeater, Brewers Fayre and Cookhouse restaurants, plus one Premier Inn hotel. The price was not disclosed.
The new business is led by Thomas Anderson, who also leads Rodeo Group.
The restaurants are intended to keep their individual pub names, with all-day meals for hotel guests and local customers.
First reopenings were reported for mid-November 2026. No completion date is confirmed in the sources checked on 31 October.
Around 700 new jobs were reported, alongside transfers of Whitbread staff.
These are plans, not completed reopenings.
The individual site list is still awaited. None of the final 106 Beefeaters is assigned to Common Table until its address is named.
Sources for Common Table Group: 57 sites – list awaited
Follow the earlier buildings too
Some Beefeaters left the chain years before its final day. Our separate former-Beefeater list covers those places, including hotel-only conversions, Toby Carvery conversions and the Papas Group Wetherspoon franchises.