Paramaribo restaurants compared: kitchen, neighbourhood and opening hours

Short answer: Paramaribo's food is four cuisines that arrived with four migrations and never merged: Creole, Javanese, Hindustani and Chinese-Surinamese. The table below sorts our twenty-nine verified places by kitchen and tells you where they are and when they open, which is the information that actually decides where you eat. Published hours are rarer than you would expect; where a place publishes none, or where two sources disagree, the table says so rather than guessing.

The comparison

By kitchen

Creole. The Afro-Surinamese home kitchen: pom (a baked casserole of grated tayer root and chicken), moksi alesi (mixed rice), brown beans, and soups eaten as whole meals. De Gadri is the reference point for a plate of pom at lunch, with published hours and a terrace by the fort. Souposo builds a whole menu around the soups. Roline's de Waag and Baka Foto are the two places to eat Creole food with the river in front of you, and neither publishes hours, so ask before an evening.

Where is the Javanese food in Paramaribo?

Blauwgrond, the district in the north that began as a Javanese village, and more precisely one street in it. The Josephine Samson Greenstraat carries five of the places on this list within a few minutes' walk: Warung Ursi at 65, AJ's Indo foodhouse at 67, Warung Felicia at 99, Mirosso at 104 and Warung Renah at 106. Warungs, the small eating houses often built in front of a family home, are the form; Mirosso is the sit-down version with a terrace, AJ's calls itself a foodhouse and has traded since 2010 by its own account.

Not one of the five publishes its opening hours anywhere. That is normal for the category rather than a gap in our research, and it means the same thing every time: go in the evening and ask, or ring first. Four of the five do publish a telephone number.

Sarinah is the daytime Javanese option without crossing town, open until 17:00. Warung Resa, on the Commissaris Weytinghweg south of the centre, is halal and essentially a weekend place, shut Monday to Thursday and open from Friday evening.

Where do you get roti in Paramaribo?

Five roti shops, and they divide by when they close rather than by what they cook. Chris Roti Shop is the best documented: trading since 1981 by its own account, with three outlets, and the only one publishing its own hours for each. Its Maystraat shop shuts at 15:30, its Kwattaweg branch runs to 20:30. Roti Shop Joosje and Grand Roopram sit on the same central street, Joosje at number 9 and Roopram at number 23; Roopram's 08:00–23:00 makes it the most reliable late plate in the city. Suda Roti on the Kwattaweg is the long-day option, roughly breakfast to 23:00.

Note that Joosje is shut from 6 to 20 September 2026 for its annual company holiday, which it announced itself.

The Surinamese format is worth knowing before you order: the roti bread arrives beside the curry rather than wrapped around it, the meat is on the bone, and curried potato comes with it. Fillings you will see named are chicken, chicken with egg, lamb and duck.

Martin's is the other thing entirely: an Indian, halal kitchen open daily until 23:00.

Chinese-Surinamese, and the rest

Chi Min is the long-established Chinese-Surinamese room in the centre; Lucky Twins is the large one at the Maretraite Mall in Blauwgrond, with an indoor aquarium, a licence and private dining. Garden of Eden cooks Thai in the evenings, one of the few kitchens here doing a cuisine that did not arrive by migration, and Spice Quest is the fusion kitchen on the Nassylaan, closed between lunch and dinner. 't Vat is where the hotel district drinks, and the only place on this list open to 02:00. Zus & Zo is the grand café near the Palmentuin. For coffee and cake, CY Coffee in Paramaribo-Noord posts daily to 33,000 followers; for ice cream, Bella Italia on the Van Sommelsdijckstraat.

Planning a day of eating

A workable pattern, built only on published hours: roti at Chris Roti Shop on the Maystraat before 15:30 or a Javanese lunch at Sarinah (07:30–17:00), pom at De Gadri (08:00–19:00), an early evening in Blauwgrond for warung food, and 't Vat, Roopram or Suda Roti if it gets late. The market is the morning: the Centrale Markt on the Waterkant.

For the reasoning behind these choices and the dishes to order, read where to eat in Paramaribo; this page is the table version of it.

What is missing

Seventeen of twenty-nine places publish no opening hours anywhere we could verify, and two more publish hours that contradict each other. CY Coffee's two published sets differ by seven hours on the Monday opening. Lucky Twins' sources disagree on whether it closes on Tuesdays, which is the difference between a wasted journey and a meal, so we state neither.

Prices are on a place's page only where a source stated them. We publish no ratings, because we collect none.

Every fact above sits on the place's own page with its source and check date, between 21 August and 8 September 2026.