Ormeau is extraordinary for its ordinariness, and well located for Belfast’s big draws
What’s going for it? You can tell Ormeau Road has changed when a “locally sourced” ramen restaurant opens, selling handmade noodles and a Belfast-by-way-of-Hokkaido flavour fusion. Delicious. Love a ramen, me. And more power to it.
But still. Ormeau is at the early, innocent stages of gentrification, which means nu-ramen bars and coffee can peacefully coexist with credit unions, Oxfams and traditional Irish music spots, and you hope it will be this way for ever, rather than metamorphosing overnight. And maybe it will. The place still has a bit of shab about it, and those with not very long memories will easily remember its pre-post-Troubles history, which still, occasionally, flashes up. The developers, though, have moved in, splurging apartment complexes along the River Lagan, and turning the old Ormeau Bakery buildings into an apartment complex, called, inevitably, The Bakery.
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