The popular restaurant chain announced one of its sites is ‘permanently closing’ next month (Image: Getty)
Popular restaurant chain Brewers Fayre has announced that its pub and carvery, Home Farm, in Hessle, East Riding of Yorkshire, is “permanently closing” next month. The venue on Ferriby Road, five miles from Kingston upon Hull, will shut from Sunday, March 8, with regular customers informed via email.
Brewers Fayre is known for providing affordable eats in a family-friendly environment, often with children’s play areas. It is known for its “pub classics”, including fish and chips, nachos, burgers, curries, loaded chips and Sunday carvery. The chain has a long history in the area, originally opening in 1993. It has been run by Whitbread – alongside the adjacent Premier Inn hotel – since then. After the pub closes, the Premier Inn will operate its own exclusive breakfast area for guests.
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Home Farm, in Hessle, will close on March 8 (Image: Getty)
A message on the website reads, according to HullLive: “Unfortunately, this restaurant will be permanently closing on 8th March 2026. The team would like to thank you for your custom over the years.”
Meanwhile, in a marketing email to customers, Brewers Fayre said: “We are writing to let you know about some upcoming changes at Brewers Fayre, Home Farm in Hull. From 8th March 2026, Brewers Fayre, Home Farm will no longer be a Brewers Fayre or part of the Whitbread group. We apologise for any inconvenience this will cause.
“For guests staying in the on-site Premier Inn, there will be a new breakfast room exclusively for hotel guests. Although we can’t welcome you at the Brewers Fayre, Home Farm, did you know we have another restaurant near to you from within the Whitbread family of restaurants – Beefeater, The Kingswood located in Hull.”
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Brewers Fayre operates operates 91 locations across the UK, primarily linked to Premier Inn hotels (Image: Getty)
As of August last year, Brewers Fayre operates 91 locations across the UK, primarily linked to Premier Inn hotels. At its peak in the 1990s, it boasted over 280 sites. However, in 2024, Whitbread announced plans to sell 126 underperforming Beefeater and Brewers Fayre sites and convert 112 others into hotel rooms, significantly reducing their previous total.
Whitbread launched the brand in 1979 to capitalise on a growing demand for affordable, sit-down family meals. At the time, many pubs weren’t particularly welcoming to children. Brewers Fayre changed the game by positioning itself as a “family-first” brand. In the 1990s, the brand became synonymous with Charlie Chalk Fun Factories – massive indoor soft-play areas that made the pubs a destination for kids’ birthday parties.
Brewers Fair’s Old Nelson site in Stroud, Gloucestershire, is one of the chain’s most historic sites, set in a Grade II-listed building. It was originally owned by a Spanish lord, with the bricks allegedly shipped from Spain. It later became a monastery, and then a boys’ school, before becoming a pub. Meanwhile, Brookers Oast in Tonbridge, Kent, is famous for being set within a historic Oast House. The Rising Sun in Watford, Hertfordshire, is one of the closest dining spots for visitors going to the Harry Potter Warner Bros. Studio Tour.
Hessle is a historic market town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and is famously the northern gateway to the Humber Bridge. While it often feels like a suburb of the city of Hull, its history actually predates its larger neighbour and is recorded in the Domesday Book (1086) as “Hase”.