Pan Con Podcast

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 stages of the pandemic and what it took to get clean all over again.

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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 chef-owner Ryan Ratino, who was our guest on the last episode of the podcast).

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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 restaurants with duck press programs. In this episode of the podcast, Ryan talks with Mike about his career, his leadership style, the dinner the two executed together art Bresca and the dinner the two would work on at Ariete the night after this interview was recorded.

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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 like a punch to the guts of many Cuban exiles and their descendants. How did Cuban Miami respond? How should it have reacted? Are efforts to keep the restaurant from opening actually productive? Can anything good come from engaging owner Sean Meenan and others involved with the business rather than seeking to stop their efforts to open? In this mini-episode that turned into a full-length thing, Michael Beltrán, Nick Jiménez and Martha Bueno (with whom we'd just recorded another episode) talk through — and sometimes butt heads over — these and other questions. It's an open, honest conversation that we at Pan Con Podcast hope you'll find useful. More importantly, we hope the people at Café Habana will take us up on our invitation to participate. The issue isn't going away and the conversation isn't ending any time soon.

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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 2020 campaign. Martha joined Michael Beltrán at Ariete for a discussion on why she’s involved in local politics, its relationship to small business, COVID relief spending, and more.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 2020 campaign. Martha joined Michael Beltrán at Ariete for a discussion on why she’s involved in local politics, its relationship to small business, COVID relief spending, and more.

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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 extended cut, you’ll find out where Ali goes for his favorite doughnuts (hint: it’s in California and it is not Krispy Kreme), how he likes his eggs, and other food preference things.

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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 somehow screw up this episode since it was recorded with new gear. [Spoiler, Nick only screwed it up a little.]

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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 about food as he’s ever been. He’s got projects in the works that he wasn’t ready to talk about publicly. One thing he did say, though: he’s on the hunt for permanent home for Drinking Pig BBQ, the unassuming smoked meat popup that, according to Infatuation editor and past Pan Con Podcast guest Ryan Pfeffer, has “evolved to become the best barbecue in South Florida.” In this conversation with Michael Beltrán, Raheem talks about his favorite foods, his upbringing in St. Croix, why he chose to move out of the Virgin Islands, and some of the lessons he’s learned about the restaurant business over the years. In a special Patreon-only extended cut of this episode, Mike and Raheem talk doughnuts, fried fish, and cookies.

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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 writing for TV, including series like Major Crimes and Star Trek: Picard (to name just some of the work that comes up in this conversation). Nick and Mike also talk about how Miami is portrayed in movies and TV; the time Nick met Jon Favreau and embarrassed, then redeemed himself; their matching childhood haircuts; and whether Hollywood’s professional culture is a healthy one or in need of change, especially for young talent.

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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 sandwiches, and more. In the Patreon-only extended cut: Mike takes lightning round questions and we talk monsters, pizza chains, hot PB&J, and Jacques Pepin’s fried eggs.

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