Chef transforms grounded transatlantic airliner into an a la carte restaurant

[Ally]

More here...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1385115/Chef-transforms-grounded-transatlantic-plane-la-carte-restaurant.html

Done a nice job of it too...would be worth the trip over there sometime.

[G-CPTN]

Not the first time that this has been done, though it might be a UK first.

I know of two railway carriages that have been converted into restaurants:-

http://www.pubsulike.co.uk/pubs/images/NE332LDTMR-1.JPG

http://www.aunik.com/vj/vj1/images/stories/vj_carraige.jpg

[Ally]

The Super Connie at Luqa Airport is featured in this article. She was impounded in 1968 after gunrunners used her for smuggling. She was converted to being a restaurant in 1974 and was destroyed in an arson attack in 1997...

http://www.conniesurvivors.com/5T-TAF.htm

I saw her a few times in the late 70's & early 80's when on Malta for holidays etc.

Really sad that she was set alight, at least some of her was rescued though for the museum, just a pity that she has gone.