Restaurant - the ship "Flying Dutchman" is on the waterfront next to Mytninskaya Exchange bridge connecting Petrograd side and Vasilievsky Island. "Flying Dutchman" is a replica of the Dutch ship - a three-masted sailing ship "Amsterdam" built in the late 18th century. Company "PetroMramor" in transfer of granite slabs, are made of natural stone, served lining floors and stairs.

Restaurant "The Flying Dutchman", moored to Mytninskaya waterfront in the center of the North Venice, combines three species restaurant St. Petersburg. Geographically, Mytninskaya embankment located on the Petrograd side, next to the Exchange bridge over the Little Neva. His name was on the quay Mytninskaya Mytnaya court, ie customs, once located on the bank of the Little Neva. The name of the court Mytnaya derives from "myto" - a fee for carriage of goods (Trial). The ship-restaurant "The Flying Dutchman" wide panorama over the Peter and Paul Fortress, the Winter Palace and The Palace Bridge, the arrow of Vasilevsky Island with Rostral columns and portico Stock Exchange building, the bank of Makarov and Exchange Bridge.

Wooden Exchange Bridge was built in the late 19th century, 21 meters wide and 328 meters long. Bolsheviks came to power in 1918, renamed the Exchange Bridge to Bridge Builders. In 1960, was carried out a complete reconstruction of the bridge, which has become a welded steel construction with five arched spans. Over-bridge architecture of the bridge has been sustained in a simple, monumental form. The historical name of Exchange Bridge back in 1989.