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There is nothing more romantic than eating next to water, and nothing beats eating next to water on that special occasion, anniversary or birthday or funeral or a rich uncle like eating ON the water. But isn’t it a bit risky? Read about 3 floating restaurants that just floated away and were never seen again.

Why 2 Play, Nantucket

Patrons were invited to relive the excitement of Y2K aboard the actual yacht of playboy millionaire Ted Sharp, Why 2 Play, moored off Nantucket island. They were encouraged to shuck oysters and gargle unique cocktails on its converted 50-foot helipad. When Ted lost everything in the dot-com bubble crash of 2002, however, he cut the mooring lines to his by then iconic restaurant, and Why 2 Play drifted off into questionable weather with more than fifty customers, kitchen staff, and crew aboard.

What happened to the floating restaurant or its unfortunate cargo has been the subject of much speculation since that fateful February.

PUCK & PICKLE, Lapland

This fine room and board experience (PUCK & PICKLE was touted as a wilderness hotel and restaurant), last seen in 2023, was contructed on a floating island near the delightful lakeside town of Inari in northern Finland. Visitors once flocked to PUCK & PICKLE not only for the delicious cuisine but also for the breathtaking views of the floating glaciers. Their iconic ‘dining pucks’, large buoyant boards on which portions of master chef Elena Karjalainen would serve her signature salmon soup and poronkäristys (reindeer brisket), also doubled as life preservers ‘in the event of driftage’. Average winter temperatures had risen 8% since the restaurant’s founding in 1994, however, and in late February of 2023 PUCK & PICKLE simply drifted off, never to be seen again.

Titanic II, Cape Carol, FL

The promotional materials for the unfortunately named Titanic II (Olympic-Class Portions) restaurant, a US-based fish-and-chips jumbo-sized shack located on a built-to-1:20-scale model of the actual Titanic that was anchored near to shore in Florida’s tourist town Cape Carol, boasted that ‘not only is OUR Titanic unsinkable, we guarantee no ice in your soup.’ In addition to the mid-Atlantic seafood, Titanic II proudly offered complete meals recreated from menus served to passengers on the original maiden voyage of her namesake. She floated off her bowline in a tropical storm in July of 2025 and sank to the bottom of Carol Bay. Fortunately she had been equipped with lifeboats, and there was no loss of life in the tragedy.