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.
Updated 21 August 2026
Food & drink · Rainville
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.
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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 — and 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.
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.
Updated 21 August 2026
Long-running sidewalk cafe and bar at Kleine Waterstraat 1 in Paramaribo's hotel district, open daily from 08:00 to 02:00, with a large covered terrace, sports screens and live music.
Restaurant at the Fort Zeelandia site on Abraham Crijnssenweg in Paramaribo, in a historic building beside the Suriname River. It has also traded as Museumrestaurant Baka Foto.
Long-established Chinese-Surinamese restaurant on Cornelis Jongbawstraat in central Paramaribo, with a ground-floor takeaway counter and a dining room upstairs.
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Information on this page is sourced from Experience Suriname, TripAdvisor.