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 · Combé
Zus & Zo
Grand cafe and restaurant in a colonial-style building on Grote Combeweg near the Palmentuin in central Paramaribo, serving European, Caribbean and Surinamese dishes from breakfast through late evening, with a garden terrace.
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Best for
- breakfast
- drinks
- backpackers
- live music
- laptop work
Zus & Zo is a grand cafe in a colonial-style building on Grote Combeweg, opposite the Palmentuin and a couple of minutes from Onafhankelijkheidsplein. Its own site, checked on 21 August 2026, gives the address as Grote Combeweg 13A and describes current restaurant service, guided tours, a souvenir shop and guest rooms.
That combination is the point. This is one address doing four jobs — kitchen, tour desk, shop and small guesthouse — which is why it functions as a default meeting point for travellers in Paramaribo, and why free wi-fi and a table for a couple of hours make it the closest thing the centre has to a drop-in workspace. It is not a dedicated coworking space, and we do not list it as one.
We do not print a phone number for it. Two listings give numbers one digit apart — +597 520-904 and +597 520-905 — and we have not been able to establish which is right, so the website is the contact we stand behind.
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Walking the historic inner city of Paramaribo
A half-day route through the thirty hectares UNESCO inscribed in 2002 — fort, square, palace, park, cathedral, and the synagogue and mosque that share a street.
Updated 21 August 2026
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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.
Baka Foto
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.
Chi Min
Long-established Chinese-Surinamese restaurant on Cornelis Jongbawstraat in central Paramaribo, with a ground-floor takeaway counter and a dining room upstairs.
Sources and verification
Last verified
Information on this page is sourced from Experience Suriname, TripAdvisor, Zus & Zo Suriname, Booking.com, Op reis door Suriname.
- Experience Suriname · address, hours, phone · read 21 August 2026
- TripAdvisor · address, existence, phone · read 21 August 2026
- Zus & Zo Suriname — Zus & Zo Suriname · existence · read 21 August 2026
- Booking.com · existence, wifi · read 21 August 2026
- Op reis door Suriname · hours · read 21 August 2026