diff --git a/pandas/io/parquet.py b/pandas/io/parquet.py
index cde7a98eb42ae..de9a14c82b3cb 100644
--- a/pandas/io/parquet.py
+++ b/pandas/io/parquet.py
@@ -122,11 +122,20 @@ def write(
             file_obj_or_path.close()
 
     def read(self, path, columns=None, **kwargs):
-        parquet_ds = self.api.parquet.ParquetDataset(
-            path, filesystem=get_fs_for_path(path), **kwargs
-        )
-        kwargs["columns"] = columns
-        result = parquet_ds.read_pandas(**kwargs).to_pandas()
+        fs = get_fs_for_path(path)
+        should_close = None
+        # Avoid calling get_filepath_or_buffer for s3/gcs URLs since
+        # since it returns an S3File which doesn't support dir reads in arrow
+        if not fs:
+            path, _, _, should_close = get_filepath_or_buffer(path)
+
+        kwargs["use_pandas_metadata"] = True
+        result = self.api.parquet.read_table(
+            path, columns=columns, filesystem=fs, **kwargs
+        ).to_pandas()
+        if should_close:
+            path.close()
+
         return result
 
 
diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/data/parquet/simple.parquet b/pandas/tests/io/data/parquet/simple.parquet
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..2862a91f508ea
Binary files /dev/null and b/pandas/tests/io/data/parquet/simple.parquet differ
diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/test_parquet.py b/pandas/tests/io/test_parquet.py
index 8a43d4079159b..7ee551194bf76 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/test_parquet.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/test_parquet.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 """ test parquet compat """
 import datetime
 from distutils.version import LooseVersion
+from io import BytesIO
 import os
 from warnings import catch_warnings
 
@@ -567,6 +568,23 @@ def test_s3_roundtrip_for_dir(self, df_compat, s3_resource, pa, partition_col):
             repeat=1,
         )
 
+    @tm.network
+    @td.skip_if_no("pyarrow")
+    def test_parquet_read_from_url(self, df_compat):
+        url = (
+            "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pandas-dev/pandas/"
+            "master/pandas/tests/io/data/parquet/simple.parquet"
+        )
+        df = pd.read_parquet(url)
+        tm.assert_frame_equal(df, df_compat)
+
+    @td.skip_if_no("pyarrow")
+    def test_read_file_like_obj_support(self, df_compat):
+        buffer = BytesIO()
+        df_compat.to_parquet(buffer)
+        df_from_buf = pd.read_parquet(buffer)
+        tm.assert_frame_equal(df_compat, df_from_buf)
+
     def test_partition_cols_supported(self, pa, df_full):
         # GH #23283
         partition_cols = ["bool", "int"]