Article posted: 9/15/2012 6:11 AM

Finns open ‘pop-down’ restaurant down in mine

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Customers having dinner at Muru Pop Down restaurant at Tytyri mine in Lohja, Finland. The award-winning chef, Niklas Ekblom, is opening a new restaurant in Finland that turns the idea of "pop-up" eateries upside-down: it's located 80 meters (260 feet) underground.

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Chef Niklas Ekblom, left, and restaurateur Timo Linnamaki preparing food at Muru Pop Down restaurant at Tytyri mine in Lohja, Finland.

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An award-winning chef has opened a new restaurant in Finland that turns the idea of "pop-up" eateries upside down: it's located 80 meters (260 feet) underground. Discerning food lovers are being served salted salmon, veal tenderloin, snails cooked in Pernod and apple crumble in the "pop-down" restaurant in a limestone mine in the small, southern town of Lohja (LOU-ya), 60 kilometers (40 miles) west of Helsinki.