A floating restaurant is a vessel, usually a large steel

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, used as a

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on water. The ''

Jumbo Kingdom Jumbo Kingdom () consisted of the Jumbo Floating Restaurant () and the adjacent Tai Pak Floating Restaurant (), which were tourist attractions in Aberdeen South Typhoon Shelter, within Hong Kong's Aberdeen Harbour. During its 44 years of opera ...

'', formerly located at

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, 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 metropol ...

. Another example is the

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, which served as a restaurant in Detroit. Plans for ''Lansdowne'' to continue in this capacity on the

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waterfront came to naught and it was

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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''.

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* - defunct * Captain John's Harbour Boat Restaurant (MS ''Jadran'') - defunct * ''

'' - sank at sea in 2022 * MV ''Ganga Vihar'' * - defunct *

McBarge The McBarge, officially named the ''Friendship 500'', is a former McDonald's restaurant, built on a barge for Expo '86 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Moored on Expo grounds in Vancouver's False Creek, it was the second floating McDonald's loc ...

* ''

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, Phila ...

'' * (the original Captain John's restaurant in Toronto, now the Riverboat Mexican Grill in Port Dalhousie, Ontario) * *

Rustar dhow The Rustar dhow located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is a royal boat that can accommodate 400 passengers. At it has set the world record for the largest floating restaurant A floating restaurant is a vessel, usually a large steel barge or ...

* ''Sherman'' - defunct * *

Star Seafood Floating Restaurant ClubONE Riviera (), formerly called Star Seafood Restaurant (), and earlier called Treasure Floating Restaurant (), is a restaurant in Sha Tin, Hong Kong. The restaurant was built with granite taking on the shape of a ship berthing along the sho ...

* * * , 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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using the 1869-built Swedish steamship ''Fredriksborg'' * M/B ''Camaligan''

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