NEW RESTAURANT
PHOTOGRAPHS: COURTESY OF UNDER RESTAURANT/STIAN BROCH AND MIR/SNØHETTA
Dinner at
the bottom
of the deep
blue sea
From this spring, fish going about their
business off Norway’s southern coast
will discover an unusual attraction:
atankfullofhumanssittingdownto
dinner. The restaurant Under (which
means both ‘under’ and ‘wonder’ in
Norwegian) is submerged five metres
beneath the surface of the Skagerrak.
ThedesignisbySnøhetta,thesamefirm
behindthemuch-praisedOsloOpera
House, and the menu promises to hold
close to the flinty landscape in the best
New Nordic tradition(under.no).