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Pan Con Podcast
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On Pan Con Podcast, we take on big ideas in conversation with Miami chef Michael Beltran (Ariete, Chug's, Leña, etc.). We'll also bring on guests — many, but not all, from the world of food and beverage. It's a behind-the-curtain look at restaurants, craft, creativity, entrepreneurship and more.It's an opportunity for DADE (DADEmag.com) to bring you a new voice in service of the same old goal: great stories, fresh perspective, from DADE, for all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Boxer Robeisy "El Tren" Ramírez on fighting to regain the WBO featherweight title and antagonizing Cuba's dictatorship
Robeisy “El Tren” Ramírez is an elite boxer by any measure. He has two Olympic gold medals (which he won with the Cuban national team) and was the WBO featherweight champion between April and December 2023. But it wasn’t until his title defense in July 2023 (in Japan against Satoshi Shimizu) that...
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Shari Bayer, author of "Chefwise: Life Lessons From Leading Chefs Around The World"
Shari Bayer is the author of “Chefwise: Life Lessons from Leading Chefs Around the World” (Phaidon Press), a book in which she’s compiled insights, quotes and anecdotes from exchanges with world class chefs like Massimo Bottura, Jeremy Chan, Tom Colicchio, Nina Compton, Wylie Dufresne, Suzanne...
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Ariete Hospitality wine director Adrian López on the beverage industry in Miami, his career in restaurants, wine trends
Adrian López is the wine director at Ariete Hospitality and is a partner at the Miami restaurant group’s Coconut Grove bar/retail concept, The Allocation Room. In 2023, with Adrian at the helm, the wine program at the company’s Michelin-starred flagship restaurant Ariete won an Award of…
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Lucy López on how cancer impacts families and turning pain into action (like Cars & Croquetas)
We last had Lucy López on Pan Con Podcast in 2021. Since then, the former Power 96 radio personality has refashioned her career with (among other things) roles hosting two podcasts — Slate’s Care and Feeding podcast and her own Mamacita Rica podcast. She also had a role in #Graced, a play written...
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South Florida fine dining blogger & podcaster Brenda Popritkin of The Whet Palette
Now in its second year with Michelin-Starred restaurants, Miami’s fine dining scene is well into maturity, participating fully on the global restaurant stage. Miami food media, on the other hand, has some catching up to do. Among those doing the work of filling the void is Brenda Popritkin, whose...
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Author and podcaster Andrew Friedman on making a career of interviewing and writing about chefs
Andrew Friedman’s “big break” came in 1997, when he collaborated with chef Alfred Portale on the “Gotham Bar and Grille Cookbook. It won the IACP/Julia Child Cookbook Award for “Best Chef or Restaurant Cookbook,” and got a James Beard Award nomination for “Best General Cookbook.” Though he’s…
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Kush Hospitality founder Matt Kuscher on leadership, slow season, urinal ice
Kush Hospitality founder Matt Kuscher joined Mike Beltrán at El Vecino Cigars & Cocktails in downtown Miami for a smoke and a discussion about his restaurant business, burger toppings, urinal ice, and his work with the Pace Center for Girls. 02:35: Matt Kuscher on the Washington Commanders 07:40:...
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Eva, El Vecino, and a new dog — Catching up with Mike
Mike and Nick got together to catch up on what's new at Ariete Hospitality Group. 02:00: Mike has a new dog. 03:30: Eva, Ariete Hospitality Group's new Mediterranean restaurant, is set to open soon. 10:55: El Vecino Cigars & Cocktails is now open. 22:33: The Miami restaurant industry is going...
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Co-founder of Per'La Specialty Roasters Chris Nolte on the coffee industry and starting a small business
Chris Nolte is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Per’La Specialty Roasters. He specializes in developing, branding and marketing of the company in order to aid in its growth. In this conversation with Michael Beltran, Chris talks about the origins of the brand, the coffee industry, struggles...
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"The Walls Have Ears" is playwright Robby Ramos' reflection on the Castro revolution's impact on the Cuban nation and families like his
The first time Robby Ramos was on Pan Con Podcast, he told us about a play he’d written. The script (his first) took its inspiration from stories about Cuba that he’d been told by people like his grandfather, who did time as a political prisoner in three different Cuban prisons before going into...
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World Series champ Jon Jay on baseball in Miami, life in the majors and the transition to coaching
When Mike Beltrán saw his high school friend Jon Jay on the cover of Sports Illustrated, his reaction, as he notes in this episode, was something like, “That’s my fuckin’ dog.” Jon Jay played 12 seasons of baseball in the majors and won a World Series with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2011. Now…
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Cars and Croquetas for cancer research, Noma closes, Laurel, El Vecino, Ed Reed, and more
Mike and Nick set up for a podcast at the Pig Pen, which is what Mike calls the warehouse where he and his car club keep their vintage cars, ATVs, golf carts and electric scooters. We get caught up on a variety of things, from a cancer research benefit car show happening behind Chug's Diner to…
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Pan Con Podcast Live: screening of "Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter" and discussion with Norman Van Aken
On January 15, we hosted a screening of the documentary “Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter.” Guests saw the film while they enjoyed a Charlie Trotter-inspired meal and cocktail pairings created by the culinary team at Ariete Hospitality Group. After the film, we had a...
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Chef Andres Kaifer of Customshop in Charlotte on taking over and changing a longstanding restaurant
Chef Andrés Kaifer recently took over Charlotte, North Carolina's Customshop. The restaurant had been around for about 15 years — a feat, to be sure. But Andrés has helped make it one of the best — if not the best — restaurants in Charlotte. In this conversation with Mike Beltrán, Andrés talks...
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Ariete Hospitality beverage director Tom Lasher-Walker on bartending, mixology, Michelin Stars
Tom Lasher-Walker has played an integral role in the growth and refinement of Ariete Hospitality Group’s beverage programs. In this conversation with Mike Beltrán, the two talk about classic cocktails, why Mike thought Tom was a good for for Ariete’s company culture, the role of cocktail...
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Chef Karla Hoyos on World Central Kitchen, her grandmother's Mexican cooking, Tacotomía
Veracruz, Mexico native chef Karla Hoyos made an impression on José Andrés when took time from her job in Indiana to volunteer with World Central Kitchen in Puerto Rico, where the organization was feeding victims of Hurricane Maria. Not long after she was back at her job in Indiana, she was being...
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LIVE with Jorge Mas — highs and lows of MasTec, Major League Soccer, building a stadium, advocating for a free Cuba
In our third ever Pan Con Podcast Live event, host Mike Beltran sits with guest Jorge Mas (and 15 guests in the audience) for a conversation about business, leadership, legacy and culture. Jorge Mas is chairman at MasTec, an infrastructure engineering and construction company founded by his late...
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Talking Cuba, human rights and activism with author Vanessa García
This episode was recorded on the same night as our previous release with guest Vanessa García. In that last episode, Vanessa and Mike discussed her new children’s book, “What the Bread Says: Baking with Love, History, and Papan.” In this recording, the two discuss Cuba, human rights, and the...
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Vanessa García's children's book "What The Bread Says" merges family, history, and kitchen tradition
The last time Vanessa García was on the podcast in 2019, we talked about Amparo, the immersive play she had created together with director Victoria Collado, her partner at Abre Camino Collective (also on that episode). This time around, Vanessa joins us to talk about her brand new children’s…
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JoJo Tea founder Michael Ortiz on the growth of his business, Kanye West, Miami food
It’s been more than two years since JoJo Tea founder and American Tea Master’s Cup winner Mike Ortiz joined us on the pod. Since then, JoJo has grown its business and broadened its goals. Whereas Mike had once been focused more narrowly on bringing tea to Miami’s restaurant culture, he’s now...
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Laurel executive chef Ashley Moncada on building teams, a new restaurant menu, feeling at home in Miami
U.K. native Ashley Moncada studied law before making plans to adopt a globe-trotting lifestyle. She and her wife lived in Australia, New Zealand, France, Barbados and North Carolina. But, as Ashley notes in this interview, “you can’t travel doing law.” She was a good cook, though. So she lied…
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Eddie Zamora (The Yum Yum Foodie) on social media, food TV, Los Angeles, Miami
When Eddie Zamora moved from Miami to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, it was because — at the time — there wasn’t much opportunity for him in South Florida. Over time, twists of fate (including a well timed tweet about Lance Armstrong and some “douchey duck lip” coffee selfies) led him to…
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Alexys Hernández on his Cuban pastry and bagel sandwich pop up in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Growing up in Texas, Alexys Hernández’s restaurant environment was made up largely of chains and Mexican joints. The mom-and-pop-heavy landscape of Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts (or Camberville, as they say in those parts) was something new. What wasn’t was a dearth of great Cuban food,...
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FIU professor and church pastor Eric Isaac on Christianity, spiritual abuse (with guest host John Falco)
In this episode of Pan Con Podcast, guest host John Falco (co-owner of Fire Pit Hospitality and first-ballot Pan Con Podcast hall of famer) interviews Eric Isaac. Eric is an FIU professor and the pastor of Neighborhood Church Miami, a Presbyterian church that meets every Sunday for services at...
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Chef Kris Huseby of The Gibson Room on revamping a restaurant menu, leading young chefs, passing on kitchen wisdom
Kris Huseby was one of our first guests on Pan Con Podcast back in 2019. His second appearance comes just after the opening of Ariete Hospitality Group’s newest concept, The Gibson Room, where Kris is the executive chef. In this conversation with Mike Beltrán, the two talk about taking over a...
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Henry Gómez on the ad industry, winning a Cannes Lion for a Burger King campaign
Henry Gómez is the VP of strategic planning at Zubi Advertising Services, a Miami based firm founded by the late Tere Zubizarreta, a pioneer of Hispanic advertising and an Advertising Hall of Fame inductee. In this conversation with chef Mike Beltrán, Henry talks about his own career trajectory,...
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Phillip Frankland Lee on Omakase, leaving L.A., Michelin Stars, the Joe Rogan bump
When the pressure of COVID restrictions in Los Angeles pushed chef Phillip Frankland Lee to set up shop in Austin, Texas, it didn’t take long for the gamble to pay off. Sushi by Scratch Bar was a hit. But it was a push from an early Austin guest — Joe Rogan — that sent things into another...
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Florida's Michelin Guide arrives, Ariete's "sweep," listener questions for Mike Beltrán
Florida has its first Michelin Guide, with eleven Miami restaurants taking Stars and a number of others being awarded Bib Gourmands and recommendations. In this episode, chef Michael Beltrán recaps the inaugural Florida ceremony, recalls what it was like for him and his team at Ariete Hospitality...
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Lee Schrager on his career in food & beverage and Mike's beefs with SOBEWFF
Lee Schrager is the senior vice president of communications and corporate social responsibility for Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirit of America. He’s also the founder of the New York City Wine & Food Festival and the South Beach Wine and Food Festival. Mike Beltrán’s criticisms of SOBEWFF are no...
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Val Chang on Peruvian cooking and being part of one of Miami's favorite food families
Val Chang is a member of what Miami diners affectionately call “the Chang gang.” She, her father Fernando and her brother Nando are the engine that drives Itamae (which began as a stall and recently opened as a standalone restaruant), B-Side Sushi, and Raya. Like our host Michael Beltrán, Val and...
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Chef Danny Serfer returns to talk addiction, relapse and recovery
Danny Serfer is the chef behind two of Miami’s favorite restaurants: Mignonette and Blue Collar. In his first appearance on Pan Con Podcast, Danny told Mike about his experience with addiction and getting clean. In this latest episode, Danny opens up about his having relapsed during the early...
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Recapping a tasting menu with chef Manny Arredondo
Chef Manny Arredondo has been referenced a lot on Pan Con Podcast. The Ariete chef was walking by when Mike Beltrán and Nick Jiménez were recording this episode. So he was pulled in to recap a recent dinner that the Ariete team executed with a crew from Washington, D.C.’s Bresca (including...
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Chef Ryan Ratino of Washington D.C.'s Michelin-starred Jônt and Bresca on Pan Con Podcast
Ryan Ratino is the chef-owner or Washington, D.C. restaurants Jônt (two Michelin Stars) and Bresca (one Michelin Star). Ryan and Pan Con Podcast host Michael Beltrán became fast friends when they met — spurred largely by the fact that they're in a very small group of American chefs running...
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On the Café Habana restaurant controversy and Cuban Miami's reaction
When a Miami social media personality went South-Florida-viral for posts about New York-based Café Habana’s plans to open a Miami location, the news of that brand’s story — namely, its having taken inspiration from Fidel Castro’s revolution and its using images of figures like Che Guevara — felt...
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Martha Bueno on local politics, small business, and making government work better
Martha Bueno is an entrepreneur, activist and candidate for a seat on The Miami-Dade County Commission. Though she’s running without party affiliation, she calls herself a libertarian and had previously worked on Hispanic voter outreach for Libertarian Party presidential candidate Jo Jorgensen’s...
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Ali Noorani of National Immigration Forum on politics, changing minds and building coalitions
Ali Noorani is the CEO of National Immigration Forum. After dinner at Ariete, he joined Mike Beltrán for a conversation about food, culture, and immigration policy. The two also discuss Ali’s upcoming book, Crossing Borders: The Reconciliation of a Nation of Immigrants. In the Patreon-only…
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Mike on cooking for the JBF with Itamae's Val Chang, nightclub-restaurants, Miami Dolphins
In this episode of Pan Con Podcast, chef Michael Beltrán get together to recap a James Beard Foundation dinner built around food created by the Ariete team in collaboration with Itamae chef Valerie Chang, lament the Miami Dolphins’ failure to make the playoffs, and wonder whether Nick will…
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Drinking Pig BBQ's chef Raheem Sealey hasn't "been so pumped about food in a long time."
Miami chef Raheem Sealey has an impressive résumé, with his most recent restaurant gig as the executive chef at Kyu being the one he’s best known for. Raheem parted ways with Kyu — which he’d helped open about six years ago — a month before this recording. These days, he says he’s as excited…
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Screenwriter Nick Zayas on Star Trek, grinding in Hollywood, meeting your heroes
This episode was a long time coming; screenwriter Nick Zayas and eighth grade basketball MVP Mike Beltrán have been friends since kindergarten. Nick has been living in L.A. for the last 16 years or so, where he spent years working for movie producer Scott Rudin before making a tansition to…
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Refreshing the Chug's Diner menu, Mario Cristobal's Miami homecoming, and gold chicken wings
Mike and Nick didn’t do any planning for this episode, so it’s all over the place. We talk about changes that are coming to the Chug’s Diner menu, Mario Cristobal’s being hired as the University of Miami’s football coach, boxing’s renaissance, golden chicken wings, what kind of lettuce belongs on...
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Mike on the Culinary Institute of America, The French Laundry, Napa, Michelin Stars
We’ve mentioned on the podcast that Mike was invited to travel to Napa to speak and demo his food at the Worlds of Flavor International Conference & Festival at the Culinary Institute of America. In this episode that we recorded in an awkward new set up in Mike’s house, Mike recaps his experience...
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Psychologist and musician Carlos Escanilla on mental health, playing covers and finding a tribe
Carlos Escanilla is a psychologist and a musician; we delve into both mental health and music — along with his and Mike Beltran’s experiences with weight loss — in this episode of Pan Con Podcast. Along the way, the podcast is crashed by past guest John Falco, whose restaurants and brewery also...
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Tattoo artist Jessica "Pooka" Suárez on creativity, apprenticeship and palos
Tattoo artist Jessica Suárez — better known as Pooka, a nickname whose origin she explains in this interview — has some of her work on our host, Mike Beltrán, including a pine cone that Mike admits he got for the sake of getting in Pooka’s good graces and a mamey hanging from a branch on his arm....
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Live at Maxwell Bros. Clothing Co. with John Falco and Peter Santa-Maria
This episode was recorded Sept. 22, 2021 at Maxwell Bros. Clothing Co. in front of a live audience, whose members were also enjoying a special menu born out of a collaboration among the teams at Maxwell Bros., Crybaby Creamery (both owned by John Falco’s Firepit Hospitality) and Ariete (which is,...
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Actor Robby Ramos on finding his creative voice and his tribe
Mike Beltrán first saw Robby Ramos in New York, where the actor was playing a chef in an early iteration of Amparo, the play written and directed by past guests Vanessa García and Vicky Collado. Now, Robby is a member of the cast of Heels, a Starz drama about professional wrestlers, where he…
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Cura Market founder José Manuel Perrone on his health-driven business
Health issues in his family led José Manuel Perrone to ditch a job at a major tech company and look for a way to put his career in service of combating disease and giving people the tools they need to lead healthier lives. Eventually, that motivation inspired Cura Market, the company he cofounded...
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Louie Estrada of My Cuban Spot on bringing real Cuban cooking to Brooklyn
Louie Estrada left Miami for New York knowing that he wanted to make his mark by starting a business of his own. After years picking up experience working in restaurants, bars and clubs, he planted his flag in a tiny corner of Brooklyn. From the roughly 150-square-foot kitchen at My Cuban Spot,...
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Chef Giorgio Rapicavoli on Italian cooking, stoner food, his plans to revive Eating House in Miami
Miami native chef Giorgio Rapicavoli (known for Eating House and, most recently, Luca Osteria) has been a James Beard Award semifinalist, a Chopped winner, and a perennial favorite of Miami diners. In this episode, Giorgio joins Mike Beltran to talk about the maturation of his cooking, moving...
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Michael Beltrán on the reopening of Chug's Diner
We recorded this episode of Pan Con Podcast at Chug’s Diner shortly before its Sept. 8 reopening. In this conversation at a booth in the Chug’s dining room, Mike Beltrán talks about the restaurant’s new space, team and menu, along with some of the challenges he faced in designing a restaurant…
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Chef Norman Van Aken in our first live episode (plus a special appearance by Rosa María Payá)
Pan Con Podcast recorded an episode with a live audience for the first time ever, and we brought in a special guest for the occasion. Chef Norman Van Aken was one of Mike’s early interviewees. He’s also Mike’s longtime culinary mentor and the author of at least one cookbook that changed the…
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On Pan Con Podcast, we take on big ideas in conversation with Miami chef Michael Beltran (Ariete, Chug's, Leña, etc.). We'll also bring on guests — many, but not all, from the world of food and beverage. It's a behind-the-curtain look at restaurants, craft, creativity, entrepreneurship and more.It's an opportunity for DADE (DADEmag.com) to bring you a new voice in service of the same old goal: great stories, fresh perspective, from DADE, for all.
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