Floating restaurant

A floating restaurant on the Vaal River

A floating restaurant is a kind of vessel which is usually a type of steel barge used as a restaurant on water. For example, the Jumbo Palace at Aberdeen in Hong Kong is one such restaurant. Sometimes retired ships are given a second lease on life as floating restaurants. The former car ferry New York, built 1941, serves as DiMillo's in Portland, Maine. Another example was the railroad car ferry Lansdowne which served as a restaurant in Detroit. Unfortunately plans for the Lansdowne to continue in this capacity on the Buffalo, New York waterfront came to naught and she was scrapped in the summer of 2008. A third example of a ship's hull converted for this purpose is Captain John's in Toronto, a former Eastern European ship. The Normac, the first Captain John's restaurant, was moved to Port Dahousie as the floating cocktail lounge Big Kahuna.

See also

• Houseboat
• Kettuvallam - a houseboat type in Kerala, India many of which serve as hotels for tourists with cooking on board

Examples:

• Captain John's Harbour Boat Restaurant
• Jumbo Kingdom
• PS Lincoln Castle
• TS Queen Mary
• Moshulu
• MS Normac
• Rustar dhow
• Sherman
• Star Seafood Floating Restaurant
• MV Sydney 2000
• PS Tattershall Castle
• SS South Steyne

External links

• The Petit Verdot, Vaal River, South Africa