Where to eat in Paramaribo: Javanese, Creole, roti and Chinese
Four everyday kitchens share one small city. This is what we have been able to verify about where to eat in each of them, and where the gaps are.
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Souposo
Surinamese soup bar and fusion restaurant on Costerstraat in Paramaribo, serving a daily-changing soup of the day alongside a wider menu of Surinamese and vegetarian dishes.
Best for local specialities, vegetarians, lunch.
Souposo is a small soup-led kitchen on Costerstraat, working out of the courtyard and rooms of a residential house with outdoor tables. Its phone number is +597 420-351 and it takes enquiries at soupososuriname@gmail.com.
Soup is a serious category in Surinamese cooking rather than a starter: okra soup, cassava-and-banana soup, peanut soup and saoto all turn up as full meals. This is the one place in our corpus built around that. The menu is not soup-only, and vegetarian options are on it, which is worth knowing in a city where most kitchens are meat-forward.
We have not found published opening hours from any source we could verify, so ring before you go. The address and contact details were re-checked on 21 August 2026.
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Twenty-nine verified places to eat and drink, in one table: which kitchen, which part of town, when they are open, and what we could not confirm. Use it to plan a day of eating rather than a single meal.
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Sources and verification
Checked · 4 named sources
Information on this page is sourced from Experience Suriname, Souposo (official Facebook page), TripAdvisor.
- Experience Suriname · address, email, phone · read 21 August 2026
- Souposo (official Facebook page) · existence, hours, menu, phone · read 8 September 2026
- TripAdvisor · existence · read 21 August 2026
- Souposo — Experience Suriname · Experience Suriname · existence · read 21 August 2026
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