Restaurant Located Deep in a Finnish Mine Is Totally Booked (Of Course)

Diners who wish to participate in what could be Europe's most surreal eating experience this year are out of luck. The "Muru Pops Down" pop-up restaurant, opening on September 10 inside a Finnish limestone mine, is totally booked.

So allow me to explain what all of us sad-sack foodies are missing. The night begins with a half-hour's drive out of Helsinki to Lohja, the "city of a thousand apple trees." Upon arrival, everybody climbs into a descending compartment on the world's largest elevator test tower, a stomach-churning plunge that can go 1090 feet into the bowels of the earth. But the evening's guests get out a little earlier, at about 262 feet deep, to enter the Tytyri Mine, a still-active excavation site that one tourist has described as "quite dark and cold."