The Story
Louise was Aker Brygge's first restaurant. Way too far from the city centre, people said when it opened. But after 40 years and a well-deserved upgrade, we are opening our doors again to a more intimate restaurant with entirely new flavours on the menu — developed in collaboration with four of the world's most acclaimed chefs.
The history of Aker Mekaniske Verksted is still present in the rooms at Louise, in one of the few buildings remaining from the shipyard. The traces are found in the materials, in the ship models and in the pictures on the walls. The restaurant was originally named D/S Louise after the steamship of the same name, built here in the workshop hall of Akers Mekaniske in 1892. The steamship Louise was one of the so-called «Pappabåtene» — scheduled boats on the Oslo Fjord that transported fathers from work in the city to their families spending the summer holiday at cottages along the fjord.