Podcasts by Pan Con Podcast
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.
Further podcasts by DADEMAG.com
Podcast on the topic Gesellschaft und Kultur
All episodes
Ali Noorani of National Immigration Forum on politics, changing minds and building coalitions from 2022-02-12T21:31:37
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 upcom...
Listen
Mike on cooking for the JBF with Itamae's Val Chang, nightclub-restaurants, Miami Dolphins from 2022-02-01T21:32:19
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...
Listen
Drinking Pig BBQ's chef Raheem Sealey hasn't "been so pumped about food in a long time." from 2022-01-15T02:05:01
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 helpe...
Listen
Screenwriter Nick Zayas on Star Trek, grinding in Hollywood, meeting your heroes from 2022-01-07T15:58:06
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...
Listen
Refreshing the Chug's Diner menu, Mario Cristobal's Miami homecoming, and gold chicken wings from 2021-12-18T14:54:08
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...
Listen
Mike on the Culinary Institute of America, The French Laundry, Napa, Michelin Stars from 2021-12-09T16:08:15
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.
Psychologist and musician Carlos Escanilla on mental health, playing covers and finding a tribe from 2021-11-25T04:49:47
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.<...
Listen
Tattoo artist Jessica "Pooka" Suárez on creativity, apprenticeship and palos from 2021-11-13T16:46:55
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...
Listen
Live at Maxwell Bros. Clothing Co. with John Falco and Peter Santa-Maria from 2021-11-04T00:51:50
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 Ma...
Listen
Actor Robby Ramos on finding his creative voice and his tribe from 2021-10-29T15:24:33
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. No...
Listen
Cura Market founder José Manuel Perrone on his health-driven business from 2021-10-20T15:20:43
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...
Listen
Louie Estrada of My Cuban Spot on bringing real Cuban cooking to Brooklyn from 2021-10-05T15:28:21
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...
Listen
Chef Giorgio Rapicavoli on Italian cooking, stoner food, his plans to revive Eating House in Miami from 2021-09-14T13:56:48
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....
Listen
Michael Beltrán on the reopening of Chug's Diner from 2021-09-11T15:38:41
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’...
Listen
Chef Norman Van Aken in our first live episode (plus a special appearance by Rosa María Payá) from 2021-08-02T21:32:43
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...
Listen
Catching up: protests in Cuba, tasting menus, and the start of live Pan Con Podcast events from 2021-07-13T12:30:55
July 11, 2021 brought an eruption of protests on the streets of Cuba. Mike Beltrán and Nick Jiménez got together to record some reaction and reflection on those events.
Note that this podc...
Nidal Barake of Gluttonomy on food marketing, Michelin Guides and Miami dining from 2021-06-15T15:24:38
Nidal Barake is the founder of Gluttonomy, a marketing firm specializing in digital strategy for the dining world. As he notes in this episode of Pan Con Podcast, “Big agencies, they don’t know any...
Listen
Pablo Zitzmann on his new Asian inspired Coral Gables restaurant, Zitz Sum from 2021-06-04T22:43:16
Chef Pablo Zitzmann was one of our very first guests on Pan Con Podcast in 2019. Nearly two years later, he’s also our first repeat guest (not counting the short interviews we did at the height of ...
Listen
Mike Beltran responds to Washington Post reader comments from 2021-05-21T20:11:03
A May 8 Washington Post story by Laura Reiley bearing the headline “As his restaurants’ customers return, a Miami chef is missing a critical ingredient: Workers,” examines the widespread difficulty...
Listen
Restaurateur Nedal Ahmad on Pincho, ghost kitchens, digital food halls, and Marvel versus DC from 2021-05-14T16:02:23
Nedal Ahmad was one of the co-founders of Pincho, the Miami-born fast casual chain we discussed at length on Pan Con Podcast with previous guest (and Nedal’s cousin) Otto Othman. Nedal has since mo...
Listen
Painter and Abuela Mami co-founder Kiki Valdés on art, creativity, and Cuban care packages from 2021-04-25T16:43:14
Whether painting for live audiences at nightclubs, showing his work at galleries or creating hand-drawn covers for the zines he bought from Miami record stores, Kiki Valdés has been making art cons...
Listen
Ike Shehadeh on growing Ike's Love & Sandwiches on opposite coasts and his crazy pre-sandwich résumé from 2021-04-20T21:44:10
Ike Shehadeh is the founder and face of Ike’s Love & Sandwiches, the San Francisco-based sandwich chain with about 80 locations, known for its extensive menu, unusual flavor combinations and quirky...
Listen
María Cabré of J. Wakefield Brewing on transitioning from a career in pastry to making craft beer from 2021-04-12T02:47:24
María Cabré is the general manager at Miami’s J. Wakefield Brewing. In this conversation with Michael Beltrán, she talks about her experience as a pastry chef, how those skills have served her in a...
Listen
Pincho's Otto Othman on merging Latin flavor and Middle Eastern hospitality in Miami fast casual from 2021-03-30T21:14:22
Pincho — perhaps better known in South Florida by its original name, Pincho Factory — is a distinctly Miami fast casual restaurant brand that’s grown to 10 locations serving kebobs and burgers. Co-...
Listen
Luciana Giangrandi and Alex Meyer, the Rising Star chef duo behind Miami's Boia De Restaurant from 2021-03-26T20:52:59
Luciana Giangrandi and Alex Meyer are the chefs behind Boia De, a Miami restaurant that Mike has recommended on Pan Con Podcast numerous times. The two made their long-overdue appearance on the pod...
Listen
Exquisito Chocolates founder Carolina Quijano on making chocolate in Miami's Little Havana from 2021-03-23T21:14:56
Both in her childhood and her early professional life, Carolina Quijano moved around a lot. “Living on planes” — especially when she was working as a management consultant — led her to all kinds of...
Listen
Kathy Manning & Tung Nguyen on their Vietnamese restaurant Hy Vong & new book, Mango and Peppercorns from 2021-03-17T22:40:23
Katherine Manning and Tung Nguyen and widely regarded as the restaurateur duo responsible for popularizing Vietnamese flavors in Miami at Hy Vong. The two met when Katherine, then a University of M...
Listen
Cervecería La Tropical's Manny Portuondo on reviving Cuba's first beer brand in Miami from 2021-03-04T16:03:57
It took 23 years for the brewery Manny Portuondo dreamed of opening to become a reality. It took patience, passion, and some legal battles with the Cuban government, but Cervecería La Tropical — Cu...
Listen
South Florida radio icon Lucy López on Miami music, Cuban food and the world's best Taco Bell from 2021-02-26T20:17:36
Lucy López has been a Miami radio fixture since she joined Power 96.5 FM back in 1996; she’s been with the station all this time and now hosts Power 96’s morning show.
She joined Mike Belt...
Sef "Burger Beast" González on his pioneering food blog & a prank he pulled with Guillermo Del Toro from 2021-02-22T17:21:09
A chance encounter with a great burger at a Miami pizza joint led Sef González to snap a photo of it on his Motorola Razor. That grainy flip phone photo was the beginning of Burger Beast, one of Mi...
Listen
Derek Kaplan of Fireman Derek's Bake Shop on the dessert business, pro sports and food television from 2021-02-13T23:29:06
Derek Kaplan had a decade-long career as a firefighter, but he started honing his dessert skills in high school when, as he told Mike Beltrán on this episode of Pan Con Podcast, he would make pies ...
Listen
Drew Estate's master cigar blender Willy Herrera on tobacco, Nicaragua, and following the recipe from 2021-02-07T22:21:05
Drew Estate is one of the biggest names in premium cigars. And Willy Herrera, the company’s master blender, is the man responsible not only for developing new cigar blends, but also for ensuring th...
Listen
Simon Kim of Michelin-star Korean steakhouse Cote found his calling in restaurants and hospitality from 2021-02-01T15:51:26
Simon Kim is the restaurateur behind Cote, a one-of-a-kind, Michelin-starred Korean steakhouse in New York City, which is set to open its Miami location in early 2021. In this conversation with che...
Listen
Miami Herald food editor Carlos Frías on covering restaurants in a pandemic, cultural appropriation from 2021-01-25T13:25:18
Carlos Frías is the James Beard Award-winning food editor at the Miami Herald. Before moving into food at the Herald, Carlos was covering sports at The Palm Beach Post, where he also wrote a series...
Listen
First Round Management's Dave Arvelo on combat sports, the UFC's handling of COVID, slow jams from 2021-01-19T00:00
Dave Arvelo is the director of MMA athlete development at First Round Management, which represents some of the biggest names in combat sports (e.g., Jorge Masvidal, Jon Jones, Demetrious Johnson, Y...
Listen
Publicist Larry Carrino on social media, food festivals and his Mike Beltran impression from 2021-01-11T00:38:57
Larry Carrino, president of Brustman Carrino Public Relations, is the Miami publicist with the stress-inducing distinction of having our host Michael Beltran as his client. Ove the time Larry has b...
Listen
The "Ask Mike Anything" episode from 2020-12-29T18:44
Our "Ask Mike Anything" episode is the last of 2020, and we opened it up to questions from listeners for chef and eighth grade basketball MVP Michael Beltran. There are even more questions and answ...
Listen
David Foulquier on Michelin stars, owning restaurants in Miami (Fooq's) & New York (Sushi Noz) from 2020-12-24T05:53:04
David Foulquier is the restaurateur behind Fooq’s, a Miami restaurant built on French-Persian cuisine, and Sushi Noz, the Michelin-starred Manhattan sushi restaurant named for its chef, Abe Nozomu....
Listen
Infatuation Miami editor Ryan Pfeffer on food journalism, influencers, manatees and porn stars from 2020-12-13T20:31
Ryan Pfeffer of Infatuation Miami joined Michael Beltran and Nicolás Jiménez to talk about his writing career, what he’s learned from covering the Miami restaurant scene and the ethics of freebies....
Listen
More on the protests and repression in Cuba following the arrest of rapper Denis Solís from 2020-12-08T03:11:14
Mike Betrán and Nick Jiménez got together to offer their ham-handed, but hopefully helpful update on the protests and repression that have continued after the Nov. 9 arrest of Cuban dissident rappe...
Listen
Marcus Rivero (Soles By Sir) customizes shoes for athletes like Marshawn Lynch and Conor McGregor from 2020-12-06T17:05:40
Marcus Rivero fell into the shoe customization business almost by accident. Nine years after creating Soles By Sir, athletes in every major sport can be seen wearing his work on their feet on a wee...
Listen
Protests in Cuba, the arrest of Denis Solís and the San Isidro Movement hunger strikers from 2020-11-30T11:14:40
Mike and Nick got together to record this special dispatch to provide a summary of and some clumsy reflections on the protests in Cuba sparked by the arrest of Havana artist Denis Solís and the ens...
Listen
Brett Romberg on playing football in Miami, stories from 9 years in the NFL, eating like a Canadian from 2020-11-24T15:03:53
After some charcuterie at the Ariete bar, Brett Romberg joined Michael Beltrán on Pan Con Podcast to talk about his time playing football at the University of Miami, stories from nine years as an N...
Listen
Catching up with Mike Beltran on food, business, politics, Star Trek and other stuff from 2020-11-15T19:34:16
It had been a while since we recorded an episode with no guest, so we took this episode to get caught up with Mike on a range of things from business to politics to his overpriced CBS All Access su...
Listen
Chef José Mendín on the birth of Pubbelly Sushi, his Puerto Rican flag mural battle and Seinfeld from 2020-11-07T14:51:29
A native of Puerto Rico, José Mendín arrived in Miami at 19 years old and fell in love with the city. HIs sushi concept, Pubbelly Sushi, was supposed to be a simple fast casual spot, but circumstan...
Listen
Cuban activist Rosa María Payá on her father's legacy and her campaign for a plebiscite from 2020-10-28T08:00:22
Rosa María Payá is the Cuban activist behind Cuba Decide, a campaign to bring change to Cuba through a plebiscite — that is, a direct vote by Cubans on a transition to democracy.
Her fathe...
Artist Peter Santa-Maria on printmaking, bootleg superheroes and helping kids realize potential from 2020-10-24T06:49:39
Peter Santa-María, best known for his brand Attack Peter, is a Miami-based printmaking artist whose Japanese-inspired work depicts monsters, superheroes and other characters, including at least one...
Listen
The Pastelito Papi episode: Gio Fesser finally joins the podcast from 2020-10-17T06:00:35
Gio Fesser is best known to Miami diners as the Pastelito Papi (though there's an extra i in Papii on social media). A longtime colleague and friend of our intrepid host chef Michael Beltran, Gio h...
Listen
Re-podcast: chef Pablo Zitzmann (originally published July 5, 2019) from 2020-10-12T19:01:16
[This episode was first published July 5, 2019]
Pablo Zitzmann (of No Name Chinese and the forthcoming Alcalde) joins Mike and Nick in the patio at Ariete to talk about his own journey to ...
Mike on Ariete's third Versos Sencillos tasting menu dinner. Also, is Trudeau Castro's son? from 2020-10-08T13:05:36
After Ariete's third Versos Sencillos tasting menu dinner, Mike and Nick (who finally got around to having one of these dinners himself) get together to talk about the experience, how it's develope...
Listen
Zak Stern (a.k.a. Zak The Baker) on his origin story, his business, and living on a sailboat from 2020-09-27T02:42:12
Zak Stern, better known as Zak the Baker, is — as the eponymous business suggests — a baker. Based in Miami's Wynwood neighborhood, Zak's bakery makes some of the city's favorite breads. He fell in...
Listen
Melanie and Jason Schoendorfer of Babe's Meat & Counter talk butchery, Canada and COVID from 2020-09-20T14:53:08
Our guests on this episode are Melanie and Jason Schoendorfer, the couple behind Babe's Meat & Counter, a butcher shop and sandwich joint in Miami's Palmetto Bay neighborhood. They joined Mike to t...
Listen
Poet and art critic Ricardo Pau-Llosa on Latin American culture, the Cuban experience, food as art from 2020-09-15T12:55:49
Ricardo Ricardo Pau-Llosa is a poet and art critic whose life's work has centered on Cuba and Latin American art. When his family fled Cuba in 1960 after Fidel Castro's co, he ended up in Chicago, ...
Listen
Tasting menus, Cobra Kai, racism, guns and riots from 2020-09-05T13:38:14
Mike Beltran and Nick Jiménez took this guest-free episode to get caught up on Ariete's monthly tasting menu dinner series and what it's significance has been to Mike and his crew during the strang...
Listen
David Verjano, host of Step Into The Sandbox, on branding and the creative process from 2020-08-25T09:00:27
In this special joint episode, Mike is joined by David Verjano, a branding creative and host of Step Into The Sandbox, a DADE podcast about the creative process.
Check out Step Into The Sa...
Publicist Mabel De Beunza on Operation Fill The Fridge, a charitable project born in the pandemic from 2020-08-21T16:26:14
Mabel De Beunza is a partner at Deep Sleep Studio, a creative agency in Miami. In her first visit to Pan Con Podcast, we talk about her work, running a business during a pandemic and the correct wa...
Listen
Counter Culture Coffee educator Sandra Walimaki on Miami's coffee culture and migrating from Peru from 2020-08-11T11:00:22
Sandra Walimaki is a regional educator for Counter Culture Coffee, which Mike Beltran serves at Chug's, his Cuban-American diner in Coconut Grove. In this episode of Pan Con Podcast, the two talk a...
Listen
High school football coach Jason Hill on leading kids, being Mike's teammate and longtime savior from 2020-08-05T00:00
Mike's old friend Jason Hill had apparently been asking for a Pan Con Podcast invite for months. He finally got one from Mike and the two got together for a few post-service drinks and conversation...
Listen
Josh's Premium Meats' Josh Pascual on getting into the Wagyu game from 2020-07-31T11:00:46
Josh Pascual left his career selling medical devices to pursue a business that grew out of a weekend hobby: Wagyu beef. For three years, he's been providing South Floridians with steaks — and, more...
Listen
Ariete Hospitality's Brittany Rothwell on life-giving restaurants and fighting to survive a pandemic from 2020-07-27T20:05:19
Mike has put a lot of trust in his restaurant group's director of operations, Brittany Rothwell, in whom he sees a lot of the attitude he brings to the company. That kind of relationship is valuabl...
Listen
Orlando chef Matt Hinckley on his fancy meats, charcuterie, Andrew Yang and jiu jitsu from 2020-07-21T15:03:01
Matt Hinckley worked in restaurants all over the world before settling in Orlando, where he set up Hinckley's Fancy Meats and took it from a deli case in Orlando's East Market to an online delivery...
Listen
Hurricanes hall of famer Joaquín González on football, adjusting to the NFL, leadership in business from 2020-07-17T15:35:04
Joaquín González was a cornerstone of the national champion 2001 Miami Hurricanes football team. The offensive lineman went on to play four seasons in the NFL — three with the Cleveland Browns and ...
Listen
"Doing nothing good" — John Falco on brewing, pizza, coronavirus, Iraq, Donkey Kong from 2020-07-07T15:45:33
In an episode that was stretched to unusual lengths by bubbly white wine, Mike and our guest John Falco talk about the coronavirus' continued impact on their businesses, sleeping on rugs, video gam...
Listen
Documentarian Billy Corben on filmmaking, Miami politics, and making his ESPN 30 for 30 doc from 2020-07-01T19:47:42
Documentarian Billy Corben (Cocaine Cowboys, Screwball, The U, Dawg Fight)joins Mike Beltran via Zoom for a conversation about his films, his ongoing feud with Miami-Dade County State Attorney Kath...
Listen
"The art of my anus" — Fred Vogel on painting croquetas, filmmaking, and police brutality from 2020-06-22T11:00:32
Fred Vogel is a man of many talents. He's a painter, he's a filmmaker, he's a philosopher. In this wide ranging conversation with Mike Beltran, the two talk about creativity, fulfillment, Miami, ra...
Listen
On mental health and asking "How are you?" from 2020-06-10T14:25:12
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline – Call 800-273-TALK (8255)
Crisis Text Line – Text NAMI to 741-741
National Alliance on Mental Illness – nami.org
This episode was recorded sho...
Cops threaten to arrest Mike and other adventures in restaurant reopening from 2020-06-06T16:51:50
Just as Miami restaurants prepared to reopen their dining rooms, a protest campaign against police brutality — along with looting and rioting that has muddied the national conversation and endanger...
Listen
Coronavirus interviews: Selling food from home, frozen pizza science, and the tire industry from 2020-05-06T01:45:58
In this episode you'll hear from Pablo Zitzmann, Susana Jiménez and Enrique Hernández. The first two deal in food and the third is in the tire business, but you'll there's value in what they all ha...
Listen
All-time rap rankings, boat rudders and other cocktail-fueled nonsense with Michael Beltran from 2020-04-22T20:25:52
Most of this episode is Mike and Nick taking a break from making what little sense they usually make. You'll be forgiven for skipping this one. On the other hand, if you're into that kind of thing,...
Listen
Coronavirus' impact on Cleveland restaurants, a Miami Beach executive chef, and an independent gym from 2020-04-14T17:24:19
In this episode, we're bringing you a new set of mini-interviews on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
First, we're hearing from Cleveland chef Brett Sawyer on how his restaurants (Th...
Payroll Protection Program, Star Trek, food delivery regulation, Mike's refusal to make sourdough from 2020-04-10T13:45:52
Mike and Nick have cocktails in Nick's backyard while discussing the government programs to keep small businesses alive during the COVID-19 outbreak, whether government should regulate restaurant d...
Listen
Coronavirus' impact on farms, specialty tea, and magic (Margie Pikarsky, Michael Ortiz, Alan Chamo) from 2020-04-09T06:29:27
Nick Jiménez is filling in for Michael Beltran to bring you more phone conversations with a variety of people telling us about how they've been experiencing and adjusting for the coronavirus outbre...
Listen
Restaurants as groceries, Uber Eats, OpenTable, relief funds and coronavirus shelter-in-place orders from 2020-03-26T22:22:34
Mike Beltran comes back to the podcast for an update on his first week in the coronavirus shutdown, how Chug's Diner became a specialty grocery store in response to the crisis, and what relief migh...
Listen
Brewing, specialty meats and Yelping during the coronavirus shutdown from 2020-03-25T06:25:05
Hear from three guests about how they've been dealing with the coronavirus shutdown. First, John Falco, the co-founder and president of Fire Pit Hospitality, which is the company behind Miami's Lin...
Listen
Social media, survival and innovative solutions for restaurant workers in the time of COVID-19 from 2020-03-23T17:55:06
On this episode of Pan Con Podcast, Nick Jiménez has conversations with three different people in the food world about how they're experiencing and adjusting for the COVID-19 outbreak.
Fir...
Talking Coronavirus and the food industry with Danny Serfer, Adelee Cabrera and Norman Van Aken from 2020-03-21T03:26:42
The Coronavirus outbreak has left food industry professionals scrambling for ways to survive, keep their staffs employed and continue bringing value to customers. We spoke with three guests — chef ...
Listen
Coronavirus: How one chef (Michael Beltran) and his restaurants are dealing with the pandemic from 2020-03-19T07:00:30
The coronavirus has all but brought the restaurant industry to a nationwide halt. We sat down for a special episode to talk about how Mike Beltran and his restaurant group in particular have experi...
Listen
Jorge Mas on owning an MLS team, taking a company public, the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) from 2020-03-17T23:21:38
Jorge Mas is the co-founder and chairman of MasTec, the chairman of the Cuban American National Foundation, co-owner of Major League Soccer's Inter Miami CF, and a regular at our host Mike Beltran'...
Listen
Jean-Georges Vongerichten on Michelin stars, Florida frog legs, running 40 restaurants from 2020-03-08T15:57:20
Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten is one of the world's most famous and decorated chefs. He's got James Beard Awards, Michelin stars, and hIs company operates 40 restaurants worldwide, employing about...
Listen
Ed Reed on his Hall of Fame football career, being a foodie, and growing up in New Orleans from 2020-02-27T21:14:58
Ed Reed calls himself a “park baby” because of the role that parks played in his life when he was growing up in New Orleans. Among other things, they helped him in the early stages of his journey t...
Listen
Tea master Michael Ortiz on competitive brewing, Kobe, tea culture, and adventures in New York from 2020-02-15T20:23:20
In the days before Pan Con Podcast, Mike Beltran was the second Mike on another show called Tea Time! with Mike and Mike. In this episode of this podcast, that other podcast's founding Mike, Mike O...
Listen
Marta Verdes Darby — a Cuban in California telling the world stories about food and family from 2019-12-14T21:57:48
Marta Verdes Darby's blog, My Big Fat Cuban Family, is 13 years old. Marta, who lives in Los Angeles, was blogging long before being a food blogger was cool, and her recipes have helped introduce p...
Listen
Restaurateur Matt Kuscher is Hialeah's proudest adopted son, refuses to eat fast food from 2019-11-30T01:57:08
Matt Kuscher is a third-generation restaurateur who grew up around the doughnut business. Now he's at the helm of Kush Hospitality, the company behind Miami restaurants like Lokal, Kush, the Spillo...
Listen
Recapping and reflecting on Pan Con Podcast so far; we talk Nave, Cuba, past guests from 2019-11-16T13:44:14
Look back on some of the major themes and the most recent guests of Pan Con Podcast so far. Michael Beltran reflects on his conversations and relationships with guests like Ani Meinhold, Eileen Adr...
Listen
Daniel Serfer on opening restaurants, addiction, yo-yos, how Mike stole his pastry chef from 2019-10-27T09:00:12
When Danny Serfer opened his first restaurant, Blue Collar, he expected to see it fail and then use the experience as a stepping stone to his next job. Eight years later, the "stick-to-your-ribs co...
Listen
Reflections on work-life balance in the restaurant industry from 2019-10-23T05:44:49
Chef Mike Beltrán, Carlos Rodríguez and Nicolás Jiménez gather around the mics to explore questions of work-life balance in the restaurant industry on this special mini episode of Pan Con Podcast.<...
Listen
Tyler Malek of Salt & Straw on telling local stories through ice cream and expanding into Miami from 2019-10-19T18:05:37
Salt & Straw, the handmade ice cream shop chain with 19 locations on the West Coast, is expanding into Miami with two locations (Coconut Grove and Wymwood). Cofounder Tyler Malek joined Mike Beltra...
Listen
Chef Michael Schwartz on the business of food, changes in kitchen culture, nurturing young cooks from 2019-10-12T14:28:52
James Beard Award winner (Best Chef South 2010) Michael Schwartz is our guest on this episode of the podcast. He and Michael Beltran — who we will refer to as Chug in this text from here on out in ...
Listen
Victoria Collado and Vanessa García on theater, creativity, Cuban identity, matching tattoos from 2019-10-05T02:53:51
Playwright Vanessa García and director Victoria Collado are partners in Abre Camino Collective. They're the creative force behind Amparo, an experiential theater production about the story of Havan...
Listen
Eileen Andrade on growing up in a Cuban restaurant family, bringing new ideas to the burbs from 2019-09-27T11:04:03
Eileen Andrade became well known to Miami diners when she opened Finka, a Cuban-Korean-Peruvian fusion restaurant. Finka is now five years old and Eileen also has a second restaurant, Amelia's 1931...
Listen
Norman Van Aken on cookbooks, mental health, and his education in Latin food from 2019-09-20T10:00:26
This is part 2 of Mike Beltran's sit-down with renowned chef Norman Van Aken. In this portion of the chat, the two talk about Norman's experience publishing books, mental health issues chefs deal w...
Listen
Chef Norman Van Aken on fusion cuisine, his relationship with Mike, and food as art from 2019-09-13T11:00:36
Norman Van Aken is one of the most celebrated and consequential chefs in the country. Widely regarded as the founder of New American cuisine and a pioneer of "fusion," Norman has led renowned resta...
Listen
Ani Meinhold on pop-ups, hospitality, growing up Puerto Rican, working with influencers from 2019-08-30T04:52:06
Aniece "Ani" Meinhold grew up in a family that always had hospitality on the brain. Bred to be the consummate hostess, she's the brains behind the customer experience side of Miami's Phuc Yea and P...
Listen
Chef Brett Sawyer (The Plum, Cleveland) on mental health, being "the best," and expressional cooking from 2019-08-19T04:03:28
Mike went to Cleveland to work on a collaboration dinner at The Plum, a restaurant helmed by his friend Brett Sawyer. In this special one-mic episode, Mike and Brett talk about how they became frie...
Listen
Hip-hop, Cuba, Miami and the creative process with Mario Obregón of Problem Kids from 2019-08-09T04:17:42
Mario Obregón is a founding member of the band Problem Kids. Their fusion of hip-hop with Caribbean rhythms is as patently Miami as their ability to swing from irreverent to introspective from one ...
Listen
Food journalism, social media, and Miami as a muse — a post-service podcast from 2019-08-03T16:41:16
Mike, Carlos and Nick meet after service at Ariete to talk about the influence of Miami on Mike's career as a chef and his perspective on food. But not before taking some detours through the subjec...
Listen
The people episode: on leadership, development and building a culture for a team from 2019-07-26T19:07:57
Mike and Carlos have a chat in Ariete's underground bunker for a chat about people. How to lead them, how to recruit them, how to develop them... and also when to part ways with them. It's all abou...
Listen
Roberto Guerra of La Caja China on roasting pigs, family, and his product's cultural significance from 2019-07-19T17:59:43
This week, we're borrowing an episode from The Cigar Snob Podcast. It's Nicolás Jiménez's interview with Roberto Guerra of La Caja China, Cuban Miami's favorite way to roast a pig. They talk about ...
Listen
Menu change as a reflection of growth, vision and caviar swag from 2019-07-12T12:37:46
The menu at Ariete in Coconut Grove just got a major overhaul. On this episode, Mike sits down with Nick to talk about what prompted the change, how it reflects his and his company's growth, and wh...
Listen
Chef Pablo Zitzmann on communicating culture through food, leading teams, developing community from 2019-07-05T06:06:36
Pablo Zitzmann (of No Name Chinese and the forthcoming Alcalde) joins Mike and Nick in the patio at Ariete to talk about his own journey to food and how he fell in love with Asian cuisine growing u...
Listen
Health, Wellness and Cannabis - with guest Kris Huseby from 2019-06-28T05:22:56
In the second part of their sit down, Mike and his guest Kris Huseby talk about health, wellness and cannabis. Kris gets into the business, politics, and health applications of marijuana.
...
Leading young chefs, small business, social media influencers — with guest Kris Huseby from 2019-06-21T12:51:50
Mike gets a visit at the Chug's Diner courtyard from Kris Huseby. They talk about their days cooking at Michael Schwartz's Cypress Room, leading young chefs, why Mike hated Kris' white clogs when t...
Listen
Food, art, craft, and squaring creativity with building a viable business from 2019-06-14T05:14:21
Chef Mike Beltran talks about the ways he flexes his creative muscle as a chef and restaurateur and where business considerations place boundaries on the art and craft of food.
Episode im...
Mike Beltran on his journey into food, learning from the best, and inspiration from abuelos from 2019-06-07T16:16:06
In this, the first full episode of Pan on Podcast, we dive into chef Mike Beltran's journey into food, the unhealthy habits that sometimes develop in kitchen life, how Miami influenced his perspect...
Listen
The Proud Boys, chef Will Crandall, and the importance of a hard conversation from 2019-06-07T15:16:46
In a special "inbetweenisode" of Pan Con Podcast, Mike Beltran gets into the controversy that was sparked when photos surfaced of chef Will Crandall wore Proud Boys gear to a couple of South Florid...
Listen
Intro - What is Pan Con Podcast? from 2019-06-04T05:25:39
Chef Michael Beltran breaks down his vision for Pan Con Podcast with producers Nick Jiménez and Carlos Rodríguez.
Follow Pan Con Podcast everywhere:
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/panc...