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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Restaurants · 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.
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.
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Paramaribo restaurants compared: kitchen, neighbourhood and opening hours
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 · 5 named sources
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 · email, existence, hours, phone · read 8 September 2026
- Booking.com · existence, wifi · read 21 August 2026
- Op reis door Suriname · hours · read 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.
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