Book a fantastic dinner at the restaurant housed in Mariehamn's perhaps best preserved stone house. The oldest part is from the 19th century, The package includes travel, accommodation and 3-course dinner.
Indigo Restaurant & Bar is a lunch restaurant, a fine dining restaurant, a bar and a bistro. A bit like a second living room in town. It mixes Scandinavian and Southern European cuisine - classic flavours and familiar dishes, presented in a new context.
On Friday and Saturday evenings, Indigo is also an important part of Mariehamn's entertainment programme with its well-attended bar. In summer, a large, cosy patio opens up where it is easy to sit for a long time as it is open from early lunch until late in the evening.
The restaurant was opened by the restaurateurs Stig Grönlund and Björn Ekstrand in spring 2004. Björn continued his journey towards new goals in autumn 2012 and Stig's new colleague since then is the well-known Åland profile Dennis Jansson. He also runs the Kino Nightclub and the Diablo pizzeria, which is next door to Indigo.
The restaurant is housed in what is perhaps Mariehamn's best-preserved stone house. The oldest parts were actually built at the end of the 19th century, when the town most resembled a village. In the 1870s, the shipowner and merchant Victor Starck built two warehouses for his ship and wholesale trade. One in brick and one in granite. The warehouses stored cement, nails and all kinds of building materials. But the warehouse also occasionally served as a liquor store. In order to make the warehouse burglar-proof, bars were put up on the windows in the warehouse. For a time, the warehouse was therefore also used as a prison. The farm with its dwelling house, warehouse and baker's cottage (which today houses the café Bagarstugan) was taken over in the early 1900s by the shipowner and consul Erik Nylund and his wife Elin.
Where the stairs now go up to Indigo's bar, there was a slide for cement bags and other goods that were thrown down to the lower floor. Several horse-drawn carriages from the countryside were waiting to be loaded on Nygatan. The building was used as a warehouse until the 1970s, when it became a dairy. In April 2004, the Indigo restaurant was opened. The history of the warehouse can be seen today in the lovely stone walls and the cosy atmosphere with wooden beams in the attic where the bar is.
Read more and see the menu at www.indigo.ax
