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Brand review · 3 min readNeighbourhood Coffee coffee review
What Neighbourhood Coffee sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Neighbourhood Coffee sells 14 coffees in the UK and the cheapest comes out at 54p a cup, which is less than most of the whole bean coffee we track. Cheap coffee is easy to find and hard to trust, so the useful question is not whether it is cheap. It is what the range actually contains, and whether the bag doing the heavy lifting is the one you would want.
Short answer
Balanced everyday coffee that suits almost everyone, and it undercuts the average.
Cheaper than 72% of the whole bean coffee we track
- Tastes
- Balanced, caramel and chocolate
- Strength
- Medium
- Best for
- Everyday coffee, black or white
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 3/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 5/5
Cheapest cup£0.54across 14 products
Against the market−14%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£7.56a week, £1.26 less than typical
Mostly roastedMediumcaramel, balanced
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifRoar Gill at 54p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Neighbourhood Coffee sells whole bean and ground in the UK, and we track 14 of their coffees, in 1kg and 200g.
Neighbourhood Coffee is a blender: 86% of the range we can classify is blended rather than sold as a named origin. That is a choice, not a shortcut. A blend can be rebuilt season to season to taste the same, which is what you want if you buy the same coffee every month and would rather it did not move under you. The buying reaches 8 countries across the range, which is a wide book for a brand this size. The roasting sits on just 2 of our five levels, so this is a range with a house style rather than a spread to pick from. Bags come in both small and kilo sizes, and the gap between them per kilo is usually the largest saving available anywhere on this page.
Formats and origins
What Neighbourhood Coffee sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Neighbourhood Coffee coffee costs
The range runs from 52p to £1.89 a cup across 14 products. That is a 3.6× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Neighbourhood Coffee expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Half Caf the World Away in the 1kg, and the dearest is Get Ground Tonight in the 200g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Half Caf the World Away | — | 1kg | £0.52 | £29.00 |
| Smile Like You Bean It | whole bean | 1kg | £0.54 | £30.00 |
| I Can't Get No Caffeination | — | 1kg | £0.56 | £31.00 |
| Espresso Yourself | — | 1kg | £0.56 | £31.00 |
| Roasting in the Deep | — | 1kg | £0.58 | £32.00 |
| Fight For Your Right | — | 1kg | £0.58 | £32.00 |
| Islands In The Steam | — | 1kg | £0.61 | £34.00 |
| Bohemian Like Brew | — | 1kg | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Oh Frappé Day | — | 1kg | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Born Sippin | — | 1kg | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Let's Get Ready To Rumbarrel | — | 1kg | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Fab Pour Collection | — | 1kg | £0.88 | £49.00 |
Bags themselves run £21.00 to £49.00. Ignore that column. A bigger bag costs more and almost always costs less per cup, which is the only number that follows you home.
The one to buy
If you buy one thing from Neighbourhood Coffee, buy Smile Like You Bean It. At 54p a cup it comes in around 14% under the median for whole bean coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Neighbourhood Coffee's own list prices. Nothing else in the range gets close on that test.
What that costs over a year
How much coffee do you drink?
- Neighbourhood Coffee£0.54 per cup£394
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Neighbourhood Coffee costs £66 less a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How Neighbourhood Coffee tastes
We have not tasted Neighbourhood Coffee, so we are not going to invent a tasting note. A flavour score we did not earn would be worth less than none, and this section would be the easiest place on the site to quietly make one up. What we can show you is measured: where every coffee in the range sits on our own five-point roast scale, and which origins go into it. Roast is the strongest single predictor of whether a cup arrives bright and fruity or dark and chocolatey, so it is the closest honest answer to what this brand is like to drink.
How Neighbourhood Coffee roasts
Every coffee standardised onto our own five-point scale rather than the roaster's. Read these as tendencies: origin, process and how you brew all move the cup.
Who it suits
- People who found something they like and want it to taste the same next year, which is what a blend is for.
- Anyone whose real comparison is supermarket own-brand, judged per cup rather than by the label.
- People who already know they like a medium roast, because that is essentially all there is here.
Is it good value?
Our test is simple, and it is the same one we apply to everything: cost per cup against the median for the same format. Neighbourhood Coffee clears it comfortably on at least one product, which more brands fail than pass. Worth knowing that the saving is concentrated in the larger bags rather than spread evenly, so buying the small size gives most of it back.
Neighbourhood Coffee products we track
Cheapest per cup first, with live prices.
Prices are the last we fetched and can move. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. It never changes the order, which is always cheapest per cup first.
What else to consider
No brand is worth buying without knowing what sits next to it on price. These are the closest whole bean coffees we track to Neighbourhood Coffee, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Neighbourhood Coffee
The closest whole bean coffees on price per cup, from brands we also track. If one of these is cheaper for the same thing, that is worth knowing before you order.
Compare against the market
Keep reading
PricesNeighbourhood Coffee price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Neighbourhood Coffee pricesLive prices on all 14 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery whole bean coffeeAll 812 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewRoar Gill reviewThe closest brand to Neighbourhood Coffee on price, at 54p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.