Floating restaurant

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A floating restaurant on the Vaal River

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Restaurant ships on the Aura River.

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Barge restaurant in Brooklyn, New York

A floating restaurant is a vessel, usually a large steel barge, 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 1941, serves as DiMillo's in Portland, Maine. Another example is the Train ferry Lansdowne which served as a restaurant in Detroit. 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 Harbour Boat Restaurant in Toronto, which was located on the MS Jadran, a former Yugoslvian ship but has since been closed and scrapled. The 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 (M.S. Jadran) - defunct
• Jumbo Kingdom
• PS Lincoln Castle
• TS Queen Mary
• Moshulu
• MS Normac (the original Captain John's restaurant in Toronto, now the Riverboat Mexican Grill in Port Dalhousie, Ontario)
• Rustar dhow
• Sherman
• Star Seafood Floating Restaurant
• MV Sydney 2000
• M.V. Ganga Vihar
• PS Tattershall Castle
• SS South Steyne

See also

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