The Hoxton, Chicago

Fulton Market was where Chicago packed its meat, and the Hoxton went up in 2019 on the site of an old packing plant and a garage: twelve storeys of new building at the corner of Lake and Green. The district has since swapped the carcasses for restaurants and galleries, and the hotel has followed it, from the basement up. Lazy Bird mixes cocktails below ground and Cira serves all day at street level. The roof belongs to Stephanie Izard: Cabra Cevicheria, her Peruvian restaurant, shares the deck with the pool and looks out over the low industrial rooftops of the district. The rooms leave their concrete ceilings bare and hang clothes on an open brass rail. Some have tall steel-framed windows full of downtown towers, and beside the bed a black rotary-dial telephone, a period piece in a building with no period to speak of.

Recommended for anyone who plans a trip to Chicago around where to have dinner, and for those travelling with a laptop, since Working From_, the co-working club, is in the building. Randolph Street's restaurant row is a walk away, and when the evening is somewhere downtown, Morgan, on the Green and Pink Lines, is three minutes on foot. The pool is seasonal, this being Chicago. When it closes for the year, the drink to have is in the basement at Lazy Bird, which the weather cannot reach.