Floating restaurant

A floating restaurant is a restaurant built on the water, typically inside a large steel barge or the hull of a retired ship, moored permanently or semi-permanently rather than sailing. Well known examples include Jumbo Kingdom in Hong Kong, once the largest floating restaurant in the world before it sank at sea in 2022; DiMillo's On the Water in Portland, Maine, built inside a former 1941 car ferry called the New York; and Sea Palace in Amsterdam, a nine hundred seat Chinese restaurant. The type has repeatedly reused retired ships, ferries and paddle steamers as its hull, converting vessels that would otherwise be scrapped into fixed dining venues.

A floating restaurant is a vessel, usually a large steel barge or hulk, used as a restaurant on water. The Jumbo Kingdom, formerly located at Aberdeen in Hong Kong, 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