The London-born hotel brand's Chicago outpost, occupying a former meatpacking cold-storage building in Fulton Market with the exposed-brick, industrial-loft aesthetic that the neighbourhood's conversion from slaughterhouses to restaurants has made its signature. The Hoxton's formula — generous lobby as public living room, above-average restaurant on the ground floor, rooms that are small but well-designed, and pricing that undercuts the luxury competition — works particularly well in the West Loop, where the surrounding restaurants mean you do not need the hotel to feed you. Cabra, the Peruvian rooftop restaurant from Stephanie Izard, adds a genuine dining destination to the top floor.
Location
West Loop, Chicago
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A room above the fourth floor for views over the Fulton Market rooftops toward the Loop skyline. Cabra on the roof for Stephanie Izard's Peruvian-inspired cooking and the skyline view. The lobby as a work-from-hotel space during the day — the Hoxton actively encourages non-guests to use the lobby, which creates the people-watching energy that most hotel lobbies lack. Breakfast at Cira on the ground floor.
Year-round. The West Loop restaurant scene does not have an off-season. Summer adds the Cabra rooftop and outdoor seating. The lobby is warmest and most populated on weekday afternoons when the creative-class remote workers set up camp.
Rooms are compact by American standards — the Hoxton model prioritizes design and location over square footage. The Fulton Market address puts you within walking distance of more excellent restaurants per block than anywhere else in Chicago. Cabra rooftop requires a separate reservation and fills up. Room rates run $200-400. The Green Street location is a block from Soho House and within the Fulton Market core. The L's Green and Pink lines at Morgan station are a five-minute walk.