Restaurants · Rainville
Indian restaurant at Hajarystraat 19 in Rainville, open every day from 10:00 to 23:00, which describes itself as the only authentically Indian and halal kitchen in Suriname and carries an unusually deep vegetarian menu.
Best for indian, halal, vegetarian.
Martin's House of Indian Food is at Hajarystraat 19 in Rainville, sharing a site, and a building, with the Bina's Inn apartments. Its own page makes the claim that defines it: the only authentic Indian restaurant with halal food in Suriname.
That distinction matters more here than it would elsewhere. Paramaribo has one of the deepest Hindustani food cultures anywhere outside India, but it is Surinamese-Hindustani: roti, bara, telo, eaten from the roti shops all over the city. This is subcontinental Indian cooking: paneer, dals, vegetable curries, biryani, tandoor. The vegetarian half of the menu is unusually long for Paramaribo.
It is open every day from 10:00 to 23:00, on +597 477535.
We have dropped the "since 1979" line that circulates in directory listings. The restaurant's own site does not state a founding year, and both aggregator pages that did are now unreachable: one returns a 404, the other refuses to serve us.
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Information on this page is sourced from Martin’s House of Indian Food / Bina’s Inn.
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