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Best Ninja Prime Day Deals (2026) Slushi, Creami, Crispi, Cafe Luxe

Best Ninja Prime Day Deals (2026) Slushi, Creami, Crispi, Cafe Luxe

Published by skeptic

Life is all about the shots you take—and the ones you don’t. Amazon Prime Day ends today. When it does, the Ninja deals will vanish. So this is likely the last time till autumn to get deals on the Ninja Creami Scoop and Swirl that turned one of my colleagues into an excitable fanatic for Froyo and soft-serve. Or 40 percent off the Ninja Slushi machine that made me a suddenly welcome party guest at pool parties and birthday parties. A Ninja Crispi air fryer that’s become my new favorite heat-up device for potlucks and cookouts. Or a Ninja Luxe Cafe Pro that’s my favorite semiautomatic espresso machine for lovers of cold espresso and cold foam. Here are the best Ninja deals of Prime Day 2026, good till midnight and then probably gone. (Ninja sometimes lets its Prime Day deals hang around after Prime Day, but it’s made no promises to do so this year.) Also check out our 99 Absolute Best Prime Day Deals, and Live Amazon Prime Day Deals coverage. Table of Contents …

The East London builders’ café that’s like stepping back in time with ‘lovely, cheap food’

The East London builders’ café that’s like stepping back in time with ‘lovely, cheap food’

Published by Sam Flores

‘Blink and you might miss’ is an age-old saying. London – despite listicles and Instagram accounts dedicated to uncovering hidden gems – is full of food spots you may just walk right on by. That’s the case with Pantry Cafe. Located in Stratford, surrounded by new high-rises, colourful buildings, and an influx of new residents, Pantry Cafe is like taking a trip back in time. It’s a no-frills cafe that looks like something from the 90s and 2000s. Traditional ‘builders’ cafes’ are a staple in working-class communities and East London had plenty of them. As years passed, those builders’ cafes have become less and less common, often replaced with more modern, trendy cafes with their avocados and sourdough. Yet the Pantry Cafe has stayed true to its roots and it’s right next door to Stratford High Street DLR station. The interiors are simple and classic and that is part of the charm -Credit:Ayo Oluwalana Tiled walls, a simple menu, white marble tables and efficient service – you can’t ask for more. If you were to …

Bao Kee Cafe has two specialties worth a drive to South El Monte

Bao Kee Cafe has two specialties worth a drive to South El Monte

Published by Sam Flores

Imen Shan, owner of Tea Habitat in Alhambra, and I were catching up recently. Topics of conversation drifted around at first like lazy clouds. We talked work and her niece’s graduation. Shan was born in Guangdong province, and she keeps up with local dining news, so we both knew I’d eventually start quizzing her for fresh intel. “Any great new Cantonese restaurants in the SGV?” I finally asked. “Not really,” she said. “But a whole lot of boba shops.” “Well … any Cantonese restaurants that have been around for a while and are making you really happy?” She thought for a minute. A spread of soups includes white pepper chicken soup with pork stomach, beef offal with noodles, and watercress with preserved egg. “Bao Kee Cafe. The owners are from Toisan. People go for the healthy soups.” Bao Kee was unknown to me, but her words, I soon learned, point straight to the restaurant’s two specific, thrilling strengths. The soups are special: Their spectrum of ingredients mine the precepts of traditional Chinese medicine. Deliciousness is …

AfD Vows To Drain ‘NGO Swamp’ After Berlin Café That Bans White People Received Taxpayer Cash

AfD Vows To Drain ‘NGO Swamp’ After Berlin Café That Bans White People Received Taxpayer Cash

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) has vowed to cut off taxpayer money for left-wing activist groups after a Berlin organization that runs a coworking café that reportedly excludes White people received more than €662,000 in public funding. The controversy centers on BIWOC Rising, a nonprofit group in Berlin-Kreuzberg that operates a coworking space and café marketed as a protected venue for Black, Indigenous, and women of color, as well as transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people of color. Critics say the model amounts to a publicly subsidized space that excludes white people while presenting itself as a project for tolerance, diversity, and democracy. AfD co-leader Alice Weidel said the case showed why the party wants to overhaul Germany’s taxpayer-funded activist sector. “A Berlin café that bans white people from entering was funded with €662,450 in taxpayer money — from the federal program ‘Democracy in Action!’ Pure racism! The AfD will drain the NGO swamp and end the waste of taxpayer money on left-wing ideology,” she wrote on X. …

Café Cecilia’s hake, romero peppers and aioli

Café Cecilia’s hake, romero peppers and aioli

Published by Sam Flores

I still have the photographs of the first meal I ate at Café Cecilia in East London on my phone. I went there after it opened in 2021. The young Irish chef, Max Rocha, had worked at The River Café and Spring in London and I wanted to see how his Irishness and the influence of these restaurants came together.  Oysters and Guinness bread were on the menu, but it wasn’t the dishes themselves but the lack of fussiness that got me. No matter how often restaurants boast about keeping things simple, few of them do. Here I had hake, silky roast peppers and aioli, three perfectly cooked elements on one plate.  Max’s hake, shared here, re-orientated me, showed me how startling a dish this simple can be. Two of the components can be made in advance which means you only have the hake to cook at the last minute. This makes it a perfect restaurant dish but it’s good for the home kitchen too.                     …

Jeanette Aw lost S,000 after her patisserie’s delivery partner ran away with the money

Jeanette Aw lost S$8,000 after her patisserie’s delivery partner ran away with the money

Published by Sam Flores

However, after two years of working together, the person in charge requested over S$5,000 upfront as a package fee, claiming it was for developing an application. Due to their previously stable partnership, she and her manager did not suspect anything and paid in advance. Later, the same person borrowed another S$3,000 from her manager, claiming it was needed to cover his father’s funeral expenses. When Aw found out, she reportedly stepped in and covered the loan for her manager. However, the individual soon became unreachable, disappearing with both the company’s prepaid delivery fees and the loaned funds. It was only when a batch of completed dessert orders failed to be delivered and he could not be contacted that Jeanette reached out directly to the delivery drivers. She was then informed that the workers had not been paid and had even assumed that it was her side that had failed to make payment. “Later, other F&B operators even emailed me asking if I could reach him. That’s when I realised he had probably been using my …

Up your sandwich game with L.A. cafe Open Market’s cookbook

Up your sandwich game with L.A. cafe Open Market’s cookbook

Published by Sam Flores

Open Market’s new cookbook disappeared nearly as fast as the cafe’s daily sandwiches. The Koreatown restaurant and wine shop known for its L.A.-inspired recipes turned five this month, and released a hardcover cookbook to celebrate. “The Open Market Recipe Book, Vol. 1” details some of its best sandwiches through the years, with each recipe hand-illustrated — and it sold out in less than three hours. “It’s a good time capsule of the last five years,” said chef-partner Andrew Marco, who spearheaded the writing. “We weren’t expecting to sell a lot. It was more for the customers who really liked us and have followed us for a while. It’s like a keepsake for us, because five years is a nice little milestone to hit.” When husband-and-wife team Brian and Yoonna Lee partnered with chefs Andrew Marco and Ralph Hsiao in 2021, they envisioned a modern corner store and bodega for and by Angelenos. The chips and pantry products came from regional makers, and Open Market hosted artists, pop-ups and other ways to spotlight locals. Open Market’s …

Cairo sheesha cafe : NPR

Cairo sheesha cafe : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. Downtown Cairo, or Wust el-Balad as it’s known locally, is a treasure trove of hidden gems. Imprinted on every high-ceilinged building, arched balcony and iconic roundabout are relics that feel like love letters from the past. Relics like the more than century-old Greek Club’s veranda that overlooks a roundabout with a bronze statue of Talaat Harb, who championed Egyptian economic independence from foreign influence. The neighborhood’s old cinemas and teahouses still stand where Cairo’s elites and British officers once sat. Wust el-Balad was designed when cars were still a luxury, and life moved more slowly. Only by walking its wide pedestrian streets can the scale and detail of its neoclassical, Art Deco and Baroque-inspired architecture be fully witnessed. Wust el-Balad’s charm unfolds in layers, some of it discreet and tucked down side streets like the one in this picture I took on a visit this winter. Here, at this no-frills sheesha (hookah) café, all …