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Nobu Hotel Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States · Nobu · High Luxury
Nobu opened its first Midwest hotel in 2020 above Fulton Market, after the meatpacking warehouses had become Chicago's restaurant row. David Rockwell shaped 115 rooms, Matsuhisa's Japanese-Peruvian kitchen works downstairs, and the house carries a Michelin Key for 2026. The door is at 155 North Peoria, and you walk out onto Randolph Street in the West Loop.
- 115 rooms
- Opened 2020
- Neighborhood: Fulton Market
- Rooms from 354 sq ft (33 m²)
- Interiors: David Rockwell
About Nobu Hotel Chicago
- The address is 155 North Peoria Street, above Randolph Street, a short walk from an El station.
- The Rooftop at Nobu Hotel Chicago is the other public room besides the restaurant.
- Willis Tower is about a mile; the Art Institute about two.
- Entry-level rooms start at 354 sq ft (33 m²).
History
Fulton Market was, for more than a century, one of Chicago's most productive industrial corridors — a district of warehouses, cold-storage facilities, smokehouses, meatpacking operations, and rail-linked distribution infrastructure that supplied food to the city and the country. The area running west from the Loop along Fulton Street and Lake Street had the character of a serious working district: loading docks, refrigerated trucks, wholesale buyers, and the particular atmospheric weight of industrial Chicago. By the time that economy began its long decline, the bones of the district — the brick warehouses, the wide streets, the proximity to the West Loop's emerging restaurant scene — were ideally suited for the kind of adaptive creative reuse that was transforming similar neighborhoods in New York, Los Angeles, and Brooklyn.
The site at 835 West Fulton Market that became Nobu Hotel Chicago had served as part of this warehouse and distribution corridor before its conversion. When Nobu Hotels chose the West Loop as the location for the first Nobu Hotel in the American Midwest, it was both a statement about Fulton Market's transformation and an acceleration of it. Opening in 2020, the hotel brought the Nobu brand's dining-led luxury concept to a neighborhood that had already become Chicago's most vibrant culinary destination — home to Alinea, Girl & the Goat, and a dozen other nationally recognized restaurants — giving the corridor its first major luxury hospitality anchor.
David Rockwell, whose firm has designed restaurants, theaters, and hotels across the country, created the interiors in the Nobu aesthetic: warm natural materials, Japanese design elements, and a contemporary hospitality sensibility that avoids both the sterility of corporate luxury and the self-conscious artiness of boutique hotels. The 115 rooms and suites are calibrated for the West Loop traveler — compact in the European boutique sense, beautifully appointed, and connected at every level to the Nobu restaurant below. Nobu Chicago, helmed under Chef Matsuhisa's direction, brought the brand's signature Japanese-Peruvian cuisine to the Midwest for the first time. The Tranquility Pool and rooftop bar and dining space above the Fulton Market skyline complete a property that is, in every sense, the product of its neighborhood's transformation from meatpacking district to design and dining destination.
The setting
155 North Peoria Street, Fulton Market, West Loop, Chicago.
Restaurants and bars
- Nobu Chicago — Restaurant · Japanese-Peruvian · Chef Nobu Matsuhisa
- The Rooftop at Nobu Hotel Chicago — Restaurant
- In-Room Dining — Room service · Nobu Matsuhisa
Experiences
- Dining at Nobu restaurant — Iconic menu of signature dishes and local specialties by Chef Nobu Matsuhisa; dining is the heart of the hotel.
- Wellness and fitness — State-of-the-art fitness facilities, steam rooms, and a private dip in the Tranquility Pool.
- Things to do in Chicago — Explore things to do in Chicago, arranged through the hotel's Discover Chicago section.
Amenities
- Guest rooms, suites and villas
- Tranquility Pool
- State-of-the-art fitness facilities
- Steam rooms
- Natura Bissé bath amenities
- In-room dining by Nobu Chicago
- Meeting and celebration spaces
- Nobu signature beds
- Pet-friendly
Awards
- MICHELIN One Key (2026)
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