Red Brick University of Baking
The Sunday Times has declared Ormeau to be Belfast’s best neighbourhood. The name is synonymous with the bakery which closed in 2004. The Ormeau Bakery red brick landmark building on the Ormeau Road was converted to shops with apartments above. Robert Wilson founded the company in 1875 and popularised such Ulster specialities as farls (soda, potato and apple potato), wheaten bread and of course a myriad types of traybakes. Long before recipe books were quite so fashionable as nowadays, Ormeau Bakery produced one which was literally a work of art – or rather works of art.
