Creole
De Gadri (formerly Mix Food) is the Creole eetcafé at Zeelandiaweg 1 beside Fort Zeelandia, known for pom. Open Monday to Friday 08:00–19:00, Saturday 12:00–19:00, closed Sunday. Phone +597 420-688. Daily menu posted on its Facebook page.
Best for creole, local food, lunch by the fort.
Looking for the pom place at Fort Zeelandia, or for Mix Food? This is it. De Gadri's own Facebook page introduces the restaurant as "formerly known as 'Mix Food'", and the blackboard menu photographed by visitors lists kip pom next to bami, nasi, moksi alesi and the day's soup. Hours as posted on the restaurant's daily menu: Monday to Friday 08:00–19:00, Saturday 12:00–19:00, closed Sunday. Telephone +597 420-688. It is a daytime, takeaway-friendly eetcafé with outdoor seating, not an evening restaurant.
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. It is a daytime place, not a dinner one. The telephone number is +597 420688.
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Information on this page is sourced from Trip.com, De Gadri (official Facebook page), TripAdvisor, Wanderlog.
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.
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