Olo is a

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, founded by

Pekka Terävä Pekka is a Finnish people, Finnish male given name. It was most popular around the middle of the 20th century. As of 2013 there were more than 100,000 people registered with this name in Finland. The nameday is the 29th of June in the Finnish tradit ...

, Petri Lukkarinen and Timo Sailama in 2006. It is located on

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5 in central Helsinki. Olo was awarded one

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in 2011. The Finnish gastronomical society chose Olo as the restaurant of the year in 2009.

Sources

* Terävä, Vesivalo, Laakio, Helin: Aistin tarkkuudella 2010 - OLOn tarina * Kaapro, Laura
Pekka Terävä ei aio muuttaa Oloa

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, 17 March 2011. Accessed 11 July 2011.

External links

Official website
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