Suriname Restaurant Tips by duke0123

The Zeeland Coffee Beanery: Drinking coffee or tea when watching street life.

The Zeeland Coffee Beanery is not a reataurant but a coffee shop where you can drink coffee, cappuccino, tea or juice and have some cake with it.
You can sit inside the shop but it's nicer to sit outside where you can watch the street life: schoolchildren having fun and passing by, shopping people, cars driving on the road, tramps asking for a cigarette and so on, and so on.

Address: Domineestraat, Paramaribo

Comparison: about average

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 0

Theme: Coffeehouse

La Bastille: Chinese in South America

When you want to eat in a different ambience than, for example, The Waterside, you can go to restaurant La Bastille in Paramaribo.
In this restaurant you can eat European food but it's also possible to have some Chinese dishes.
Also special to this restaurant was that you get your food at the same time when you're here with many people. In some other restaurants it's possible you get your dish when other people already have finished their meal.

Favorite Dish: I only ate here once, so I can't say I have a favorite dish. What I can tell is that the food was really good.

Address: Kleine Waterstraat 3, Paramaribo

Comparison: about average

Directions: La Bastille is located in the only touristic part of Paramaribo.

Phone: 473991

Price: US$11-20

Rating: 0

Theme: Other

The Waterside: Eating where the locals eat

For a long time, The Waterside, a small part of the embankment of the Suriname river, is the meeting point for the local people of Paramaribo.
At this place, under the almond trees, you can eat (or drink) from the early morning till the late evening.
It's not really a restaurant but there are different stands where you can get your food. So you can get Creole food at Inez' eatcorner or chicken at Chung Kee's stand.
At the Waterside, when eating or drinking, you can talk to the local people or listen to the stories (or their displeasure) of Suriname and the politics.

Favorite Dish: One of my favourite dishes at the Waterside is the vegetarian bami and also the bakabana (baked banana with peanut sauce).
I ate the bami three times here and every time it was different but very good. When you like pepper with your food, ask for it.
Have your meal with a drink, for example the local beer: Parbo.

Comparison: least expensive

Directions: The Waterside is just around the corner of the independence square and easy to find.

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 0

Theme: Local