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

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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. Another example is the train ferry , 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

scrapped Scrap consists of recyclable materials, usually metals, left over from product manufacturing and consumption, such as parts of vehicles, building supplies, and surplus materials. Unlike waste, scrap has monetary value, especially recovered me ...

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 wa ...

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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(MS ''Jadran'') - defunct * '' Jumbo Kingdom'' - sank at sea in 2022 * MV ''Ganga Vihar'' * - defunct * McBarge * '' Moshulu'' * (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

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

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* Restaurant Restaurants by type Restaurant Theme restaurants {{restaurant-stub

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