Get a sneak peek inside Helsinki palace kitchen as it preps lunch for Putin & Trump (VIDEO)
The two leaders allocated just 30 minutes to a working lunch after their face-to-face meeting in Helsinki's presidential palace - which overran - meaning that a meal that has taken weeks to plan had to be delivered to the second.
Finland has put on a lavish reception for the politicians and the media alike; take a look at the hectic atmosphere, as Helsinki's best chefs scrambled to prepare the menu, whose contents are yet to be revealed.
Финские повара готовят ланч для Путина и Трампа pic.twitter.com/06vdRaiMYx
— Дмитрий Смирнов (@dimsmirnov175) 16 July 2018
In the end, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump sat opposite each other at a white-clothed table in the gilded, parquet-floored Hall of Mirrors at a somewhat late lunchtime of 4pm but in a reportedly amiable mood, after the what the US president described as a "good start" to the summit.
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