Floating restaurant

A floating restaurant on the Vaal River at Vereeniging, South Africa

Restaurant ships on the Aura River

Barge restaurant in Brooklyn, New York

A floating restaurant is a vessel, usually a large steel barge or hulk, used as a restaurant on water. The Jumbo Kingdom at Aberdeen in Hong Kong is an example. Sometimes retired ships are given a second lease on life as floating restaurants. The former car ferry New York, built in 1941, serves as DiMillo's in Portland, Maine owned and run by Jim Dimillo. Another example is the train ferry Lansdowne, which served as a restaurant in Detroit. Plans for 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 Harbour Boat Restaurant in Toronto, which was located on MS Jadran, a former Yugoslavian ship but has since been closed and scrapped. Normac, the first Captain John's restaurant, was moved to Port Dahousie as the floating cocktail lounge Big Kahuna and is now the Riverboat Mexican Grill.

Examples

• Binghamton (ferryboat)
• Captain John's Harbour Boat Restaurant (MS Jadran) - defunct
• MV Ganga Vihar
• Jumbo Kingdom
• PS Lincoln Castle
• McBarge
• Moshulu
• MS Normac (the original Captain John's restaurant in Toronto, now the Riverboat Mexican Grill in Port Dalhousie, Ontario)
• TS Queen Mary
• Rustar dhow
• Sherman
• SS South Steyne
• Star Seafood Floating Restaurant
• MV Sydney 2000
• PS Tattershall Castle
• AB Celestial
• Katarina, on the Aura River at Turku in Finland using the 1869-built Swedish steamship Fredriksborg
• M/B Camaligan

See also

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

External links

• Media related to Floating restaurants at Wikimedia Commons