The ravages of time can transform once-thriving restaurants into spooky time capsules of their former selves, with rusty kitchens, crumbling walls and piles of rotting rubbish. Join us on a tour of a ghostly floating restaurant in Hanoi, a lonely lakeside rest stop in Switzerland and many more eerily abandoned eateries. These deserted diners, forgotten food courts and ruined restaurants certainly won’t be making the Michelin Guide.

Click or scroll through our gallery as we count down to reveal the most incredible eerie and abandoned restaurants in the world.

We've based our ranking on the eeriness of each location and on the opinions of our well-travelled team. The list is unavoidably subjective.

Ranked: the most eerie forgotten restaurants in the world