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Neighbourhood Café, Belfast

The Genre-Bending Phenom

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John and Sally McKenna
Nov 20, 2025
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Belfast’s Neighbourhood Café is not just a café. It’s a phenom. It’s a meme at peak status.

Neighbourhood is going through its Joshua Tree/Nevermind/What’s the Story Morning Glory vibe right now, the breakout that keeps breaking out.

Taylor has her Swifties, Bieber has his Beliebers, which means that Neighbourhood Café has its Neighbours, fanatically dev…

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