The Hoxton hotel on Exchequer Street has hosted its initial visitors after the soft opening on Thursday.
The property, which occupies the restored Victorian building of the former Central Hotel, houses 129 rooms across four categories: Snug, Cosy, Roomy and Biggy. Ennismore, the hospitality group behind the brand, employs 120 staff members for the operation.
The hotel sits in Dublin’s Creative Quarter, near George’s Street Arcade, Powerscourt Townhouse Centre and Temple Bar. The lobby functions as an open-house space with a bar, lounge and displays of Viking-era archaeological finds from the site. Cantina Valentina operates as an all-day Peruvian-inspired restaurant with breakfast bowls, sandwiches and pisco cocktails. Dollars serves as a New York-inspired sandwich spot by day that converts to a natural wine bar by night. The Library Bar, a fixture from the Central Hotel era, features oak-lined barbacks, marble countertops and stained-glass windows; it offers cheese toasties and Guinness. Groundwork, a basement venue with capacity for 220 people, remains closed until early 2026 for nightlife events.
Design by Ennismore’s AIME Studios draws from autumnal Irish landscapes with greens, auburns and browns in room palettes. The Hox Gallery displays works by Irish-Ghanaian painter William Kwaku Amo, who explores emotions and African heritage in abstract pieces. Ennismore confirms no plans for further Hoxton properties in Ireland beyond Dublin. The project, announced in 2022, follows agreements with Deutsche Finance International and BCP Capital. Recent Hoxton openings include sites in Florence, Edinburgh and Vienna; a Nashville location follows in 2027, with Kraków planned for the second half of that year.
