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Uptown’s XMarket Vegan Food Hall Closing After 1 Year In Business

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Uptown’s XMarket Vegan Food Hall Closing After 1 Year In Business

UPTOWN — A massive vegan food hall and market is closing in Uptown after only a year in business.

XMarket, a 6,500-square-foot food court with a bar and grocery store at 804 W. Montrose Ave., is closing its doors Sunday, the business announced in a social media post. It opened in October 2023, billed as the largest vegan food hall in the Midwest.

“We poured our hearts into creating a space for the vegan community, but the challenges have been real,” the post read. “It breaks our hearts to be here, but in order to keep our other missions alive—running the two largest vegan platforms online—we need to shift our focus.”

Ahead of the closure, everything inside the grocery-style bodega is 50 percent off, XMarket said.

XMarket is now the third vegan-focused business to close in the Montrose Avenue apartment building with ground-floor retail space.

The market replaced two short-lived grocery stores in the Montrose Avenue commercial space, including one launched by Plant X, which operated XMarket.

Peter Rubi Plant Based Market opened in the space in September 2021 as the second location for the Plainfield-based vegan grocery store. It was the first business to open in the 811 Uptown apartment building that was completed in 2018. At one point, the building was slated to house a Treasure Island grocery store before the grocery chain went out of business.

By January 2022, Peter Rubi had sold its Uptown and Plainfield stores to Plant X, the plant-based food company focused on e-commerce and traditional retail targeting the vegan market.

The store was rebranded to XMarket, Plant X’s chain of vegan grocers. XMarket, however, closed last year. The facility is still used as the company’s online vegan grocery ordering and delivery hub.

The company then turned the space from a grocery store to a food hall concept, which included vendors selling plant-based versions of sushi, pizza, Chicago-style hot dogs and other fare.

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