Ennismore has confirmed that The Hoxton will open its first Scottish property in Edinburgh in 2027, taking a converted warehouse site in Leith that the group has been in negotiation over for the better part of a year. The Edinburgh property will be the fourteenth Hoxton globally and the group's second UK opening after the Manchester property that launched in 2018.
The Leith site is understood to be a substantial conversion of a multi-storey Victorian-era warehouse adjacent to the waterfront, providing the architectural character that The Hoxton has consistently sought out across its estate as a physical expression of the brand's neighbourhood-rooted identity. The Edinburgh property will carry approximately 190 rooms and a food and drink programme across at least two venues — consistent with the format the brand has developed at its most recent European openings.
"Edinburgh has been on our list for a long time," said an Ennismore spokesperson. "Leith gives us exactly what we look for — a neighbourhood that is already alive, with a community that has its own identity and doesn't need a hotel to define it. That's where The Hoxton works best."
The Hoxton Format
The Hoxton's model — design-led rooms at a price point that makes the brand accessible to a younger, design-conscious traveller without the premium of a traditional luxury hotel — has proven consistently commercial across its global estate. The brand's emphasis on ground-floor food and drink operations that attract a non-hotel audience as well as residents has been central to its identity since the original Shoreditch property opened in 2006.
The Edinburgh F&B programme is expected to reflect the neighbourhood character of Leith rather than importing a concept from elsewhere in the estate. Ennismore has developed a practice across its more recent Hoxton openings of creating location-specific restaurant and bar identities — the approach taken at the Paris Rivoli property and at the Rome property that opened in 2024 — rather than operating a standardised F&B formula across the estate.
Leith's Hospitality Context
Leith has undergone sustained development as an Edinburgh hospitality destination over the past decade, with the waterfront area supporting a growing cluster of independent restaurants, wine bars and cocktail venues alongside the existing pub culture that has characterised the area for generations. The neighbourhood has also attracted confirmation from Dishoom, which is understood to be in late-stage negotiations on a Leith site, and is increasingly positioned as Edinburgh's premium independent hospitality corridor.
The arrival of The Hoxton in Leith — with the brand's established ability to attract a non-resident audience to its ground-floor spaces — will add a further catalyst to the neighbourhood's development as a destination rather than simply a local eating and drinking district.
Further details of the Edinburgh property, including the specific site address and F&B concept names, are expected to be released by Ennismore later in the year.