Under restaurant in southern Norway
48 images Created 28 Mar 2019
“Below, in spring, life begins again: the rays feed the phytoplankton, which produces the sugar used by all living beings: in a few weeks, these almost invisible algae will be half a meter tall”
Marine biologist Trond Rafoss is sitting in the dining room of UNDER, Europe's first underwater restaurant, which opened in 2019 in this southern Norwegian bay.
Under, in Norwegian, has a double meaning: it means "below" but it also means something else: "wonder"
The chef is called Nicolai Ellitsgaard and he is a boy-faced Dane who has already transformed the seabed into his vegetable garden. At dawn he puts on his watertight overalls and goes to get the ingredients for the kitchen
the restaurant is located in the county of Lindesnes, where the oldest lighthouse in the country stands and the campers wait for the sunset, it has recently won the award as the first sustainable destination on the Continent, for the spasmodic attention dedicated to the environment. From Kristiansand to Stavanger the landscape is both dramatic and gentle, in a succession of anorthosite ridges (the same rock that covers the lunar surface) and beaches and dunes, a paradise for kitesurfers and surfers. For those looking for a "salmon lord" experience, equal to that of the English lords of the century who came all the way here just to fish, there is the Boen Manor restaurant and hotel, a 19th-century noble house with a flowing river directly on the estate. Rods can be rented. And the fish, maximum two a day, cooked directly by chef Rochon Tomasz. «Some guests do like bears, filleting the salmon and eating it raw on the shore» says maître Dagfinn Galdal, «from a health point of view it is not recommended. But for something, in life, you have to go crazy». In Lista and Havik, you can hike among the yellow and blue marshes, in a brackish seafront that allows the growth of three hundred species of plants among which the peregrine falcon, the ogre and the red-necked grebe nest. While in the interior there is rafting, canoeing and moose safari on the Bjelland river, where a Scotsman with an adventurous past has set up a structure called Adventure Norway (adventurenorway.net). Along the forty kilometers of the Rogaland coast, further north, the waves are low and regular and the surf schools numerous, perfect for practicing the discipline in this Mediterranean and Nordic scenery at the same time.
Marine biologist Trond Rafoss is sitting in the dining room of UNDER, Europe's first underwater restaurant, which opened in 2019 in this southern Norwegian bay.
Under, in Norwegian, has a double meaning: it means "below" but it also means something else: "wonder"
The chef is called Nicolai Ellitsgaard and he is a boy-faced Dane who has already transformed the seabed into his vegetable garden. At dawn he puts on his watertight overalls and goes to get the ingredients for the kitchen
the restaurant is located in the county of Lindesnes, where the oldest lighthouse in the country stands and the campers wait for the sunset, it has recently won the award as the first sustainable destination on the Continent, for the spasmodic attention dedicated to the environment. From Kristiansand to Stavanger the landscape is both dramatic and gentle, in a succession of anorthosite ridges (the same rock that covers the lunar surface) and beaches and dunes, a paradise for kitesurfers and surfers. For those looking for a "salmon lord" experience, equal to that of the English lords of the century who came all the way here just to fish, there is the Boen Manor restaurant and hotel, a 19th-century noble house with a flowing river directly on the estate. Rods can be rented. And the fish, maximum two a day, cooked directly by chef Rochon Tomasz. «Some guests do like bears, filleting the salmon and eating it raw on the shore» says maître Dagfinn Galdal, «from a health point of view it is not recommended. But for something, in life, you have to go crazy». In Lista and Havik, you can hike among the yellow and blue marshes, in a brackish seafront that allows the growth of three hundred species of plants among which the peregrine falcon, the ogre and the red-necked grebe nest. While in the interior there is rafting, canoeing and moose safari on the Bjelland river, where a Scotsman with an adventurous past has set up a structure called Adventure Norway (adventurenorway.net). Along the forty kilometers of the Rogaland coast, further north, the waves are low and regular and the surf schools numerous, perfect for practicing the discipline in this Mediterranean and Nordic scenery at the same time.
