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A floating restaurant is a vessel, usually a large steel
barge Barge nowadays generally refers to a flat-bottomed inland waterway vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion. The first modern barges were pulled by tugs, but nowadays most are pushed by pusher boats, or other vessels. ...
or hulk, used as a restaurant on water. The '' Jumbo Kingdom'', formerly located at
Aberdeen Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), ...
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Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...
, was at one time the world's largest floating restaurant, until it sank at sea in 2022. 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 Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County. Portland's population was 68,408 in April 2020. The Greater Portland metropolitan area is home to over half a million people, the 104th-largest metro ...
. Another example is the
train ferry A train ferry is a ship ( ferry) designed to carry railway vehicles. Typically, one level of the ship is fitted with railway tracks, and the vessel has a door at the front and/or rear to give access to the wharves. In the United States, train ...
, which served as a restaurant in Detroit. Plans for ''Lansdowne'' to continue in this capacity on the
Buffalo, New York Buffalo is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of New York (behind only New York City) and the seat of Erie County. It is at the eastern end of Lake Erie, at the head of the Niagara River, and is across the Canadian border from Sou ...
waterfront came to naught and it 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 Captain John's Harbour Boat Restaurant (incorporated as 1518756 Ontario Inc.) was a restaurant and banquet hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. For most of its existence it was located in the MS ''Jadran'', a former Adriatic passenger ship that was ...
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''.


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Captain John's Harbour Boat Restaurant Captain John's Harbour Boat Restaurant (incorporated as 1518756 Ontario Inc.) was a restaurant and banquet hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. For most of its existence it was located in the MS ''Jadran'', a former Adriatic passenger ship that was ...
(MS ''Jadran'') - defunct * '' Jumbo Kingdom'' - sank at sea in 2022 * MV ''Ganga Vihar'' * - defunct * McBarge * ''
Moshulu ''Moshulu'' is a four-masted steel barque, built as ''Kurt'' by William Hamilton and Company at Port Glasgow in Scotland in 1904. The largest remaining original windjammer, she is currently a floating restaurant docked in Penn's Landing, Ph ...
'' * (the original Captain John's restaurant in Toronto, now the Riverboat Mexican Grill in Port Dalhousie, Ontario) * * Rustar dhow * ''Sherman'' - defunct * * Star Seafood Floating Restaurant * * * , on the Aura River at
Turku Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper (''Varsinais-Suomi'') and the former Turku and Pori Province (''Turun ja Porin lääni''; ...
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Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bo ...
using the 1869-built Swedish steamship ''Fredriksborg'' * M/B ''Camaligan''


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Revolving restaurant A revolving restaurant or rotating restaurant is usually a tower restaurant eating space designed to rest atop a broad circular revolving platform that operates as a large turntable. The building remains stationary and the diners are carried on ...
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Houseboat A houseboat is a boat that has been designed or modified to be used primarily as a home. Most houseboats are not motorized as they are usually moored or kept stationary at a fixed point, and often tethered to land to provide utilities. H ...
* Kettuvallam - a type of houseboat in Kerala, India, many of which serve as hotels for tourists with cooking on board


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