Orr’s Family Butchers

On one of my walks to find some Unilocal material I came across this seemingly unassuming butchers. Deciding it was a good a place as any to get something for dinner I went in and was amazed by their selection. It was barbecue season and they had such a selection of kebabs, it took me quite some time to make my mind up. I decided then and there that it was barbecue season for me as well, and stocked up on all things red meat!
With such a selection and such good value it is pretty hard to wrong here. I often find that butchers can get a little bit monotonous, but thankfully this butchers goes someway to break the trend and try and do something a little different and that little bit more unique.

Orr’s has been my lifesaver over the last two years, there isn’t a better place in Belfast city to buy meat.
Think about it, you’re bustling around Tesco, you’re deciding what to make and there it is… steak, steak with a home-​made bearnaise… done…
Hold on, where do you buy your meat? Well, if you choose the popular high street store you’re talking £3−4 for a small sirloin, £5 for a small fillet. By the way, Tesco sirloin steaks are of such a low quality they resemble pork, light in colour, no flavour and tough (a sign of meat not hung long enough)
Now, Orr’s do not specialise in cornfed beef, Waghu or old Longhorn cattle… but they do a fantastic rib-​eye for £1.50. It can’t be beaten. I always buy my steaks here, occasionally mince and usually any offal.
Cheap, friendly and you’re helping a local declining trade… forget the chains.

First things first… go try the steak!
OK, so once you’ve tried it, tell me, will you ever find somewhere with such good quality for such a great price? No way, me thinks not. Go to, say … Sainsbury’s, one premium steak there £12? OK, At Orr’s … It’s £2! The quality elsewhere won’t be any better, not by a mile and you’ve just saved £10 at the local butcher. Handy! Go buy a bottle of nice wine or a bunch of flowers, whatever tickles your fancy. It’s win, win, win!
Orr’s stock the best of the best. I would munch down on chicken olives if my life depended on it as long as they were from Orr’s. Try their pork and leek sausages… I won’t buy them from anywhere else! It’s just a let down once you’ve tried them from here. Same goes for their chili sausages. The same probably goes for everything they sell. If I had the time and or money I’d have worked through it all by now. If I ever manage to do this I’ll be sure to let you know. Though I’d maybe have died happy if I accomplished this.
Family run, high quality butcher. Local produce sold and replenished daily. Beautiful, tasty, out of this world meats. Go now, you won’t regret it (unless maybe you’re a vegetarian? In which case, go right next door!)

I hadn’t been down this far in a long time, and whilst partaking in a mammoth picturing-​taking session, I found myself drawn to a street I hadn’t even been near in months.
Stuck in the middle of a wide variety of old-​looking shops is a fantastic little butchers, one which should (but never will) blow every supermarket and chain store out of the water.
With every cut of meat you could possibly want, this place had a queue of about ten people waiting to get served. Anywhere else that would be deemed bad service and you would complain. However, a long queue in a butchers is a healthy thing because it shows that people trust it first and foremost, and don’t mind paying over the odds for some great food.
I would definitely recommend it, not solely because it sells some really top quality meat (especially the steaks) but because it is much better to support local produce rather than processed rubbish that gets shipped in from somewhere dark and dingy.