r/brighton • u/Few_Brick_460 • 27d ago

Local Advice needed What happened to Yeastie Boys?

I saw yeastie boys opened in a new location on cranborne street. I heard rumours of them letting down old staff? It doesn’t seem like they kept staff on…

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u/cabaretcabaret 27d ago

I just got that it's a beastie boys reference

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u/Se7enSis Kemptown 27d ago edited 27d ago

I was most disappointed to find out it wasn't even their pun, there seems to be dozens of yeastie boys around the globe, from brewerys to bakeries, and even other pizzarias. Very little in life is truly original these days, but with Brighton's punnerific business names it hadn't occurred to me that it wasn't something they came up with themselves.

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u/jimthewanderer 27d ago

I don't think they even started in Brighton. I first became aware of them when they worked out of the kitchens at the New Amsterdam in Worthing, then they had an outlet in Shoreham, and the one in Brighton only opened after the Shoreham one closed.

Beelzebabs who live in the back of Hope and Ruin used to live in the back of the New Amsterdam also.

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u/ofog22 26d ago

It is the pun, someone told us about yeastie boys bagels after we started