Fort Zeelandia & Stichting Surinaams Museum
A 17th-century Dutch pentagonal fortress on the Suriname River bank in central Paramaribo, now housing the Stichting Surinaams Museum with colonial-period collections and period rooms.
Food & drink
De Gadri
Creole restaurant at Zeelandiaweg 1 beside Fort Zeelandia, loved for honest Surinamese home cooking in one of the city’s most atmospheric corners.
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Best for
- creole
- local food
- lunch by the fort
De Gadri is the eetcafé beside Fort Zeelandia, at Zeelandiaweg 1, and its position is half the reason people go: tables in the open a few steps from the fort and the river.
Listings disagree about how to label the kitchen — one calls it Javanese and Indonesian, another Surinamese Creole — but the dish every account names is pom, the baked root-vegetable and chicken casserole that is the closest thing Suriname has to a national dish. Aggregated ratings run around 4.2–4.3 across roughly 250 Google and 310 TripAdvisor reviews, which for Paramaribo is a lot of reviews.
Published hours are Monday to Friday 08:00–19:00 and Saturday 12:00–19:00, closed Sunday — a daytime place, not a dinner one. The telephone number is +597 420688.
A note on our own sourcing: an earlier draft of this entry cited a review page for a different restaurant altogether. That source has been removed, and everything here now comes from listings that name De Gadri and its address.
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Information on this page is sourced from Trip.com, Wanderlog.