The restaurant has won awards for its burgers
A new restaurant has been given the go-ahead to open on a city centre street. The Beefy Boys Holdings has been told they can change the use of a former bar on Bene’t Street in Cambridge into a new restaurant.
The restaurant chain sought permission from Cambridge City Council in June and it has now been approved. The site, on 15 Bene’t Street, forms part of the Grade II listed Barclay’s Bank. It was last used by Brewdog, but has been vacant since March 2026.
The Beefy Boys opened its first restaurant in Hereford in 2015, before opening a second site in Shrewsbury in 2021 and a third site in Cheltenham in 2023. It also has sites in other locations including Oxford and Nottingham.
Now, Cambridge locals could get a taste of its award-winning burgers. The burger chain has won both Signature Burger and Burger Chef of the Year at The National Burger Awards.
The applicants said the new restaurant will “serve as a meeting place for local people and visitors” and will provide a “suitable alternative facility to the existing use”.
Planning documents state it would provide a “high quality restaurant”, enhance the “vitality and viability of this part of Cambridge City Centre ” and help to “secure the future up keep of the Grade II Listed building”.
The new restaurant would be situated close to a range of existing pubs and restaurants including The Eagle, The Bath House and Pint Shop.
The building’s existing use permits opening hours between 11am and midnight between Sunday and Thursday and between 11am and 12.30am on Fridays and Saturdays. The Beefy Boys Holdings Ltd said these hours are “considered suitable for the proposed use”, but there is considered to be no concerns if earlier hours from 8am were permitted to allow “flexibility for a future use”, they said.
Alongside a change of use request, the applicant sought permission for Listed Building Consent for works to the building including internal changes and new signage.
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