Belly Pepper

Borek given the eggs benedict treatment by a chef who cooked at Lokanta Feriye on the Bosphorus.

Esra Acar Koc cooked at Lokanta Feriye on the Bosphorus before moving to Amsterdam, put in shifts at Bakers & Roasters and Alba, and opened Belly Pepper on De Clercqstraat in 2024 to cook Turkish breakfast as a kitchen discipline rather than a spread of jars. The signature move is borek treated like eggs benedict, poached egg and garlicky Turkish yoghurt with chilli pepper butter poured over the top. Around it sit cilbir, simit with the cheeses and spreads a serpme breakfast demands, tahini buns that come out warm, and a baked cheesecake under kataifi and pistachio cream that people order before they order anything else. Time Out ranked it third in its 2026 Amsterdam brunch list and it holds 4.7 across 457 Google reviews, which for a two-year-old room on a tram street is the real signal. It opens Wednesday to Sunday, 09:00 to 16:00, so the weekend is the main event and it books out well ahead. One honest caveat before you go: Belly Pepper has no website at all, its domain is parked, and per-dish prices are published nowhere, so budget on Time Out's band of 16 to 25 euros for a plate and 6 to 8 for cake. It also means we have no venue photography to show you, and a permission request is going out.

Wednesday to Sunday 09:00 to 16:00, closed Monday and Tuesday. Book ahead for Saturday and Sunday, walk-ins are routinely turned away. Order the borek with poached egg, the tahini buns for the table, and the pistachio kataifi cheesecake.