Wherein the narrator makes his first Long Island Iced Tea behind the bar, and wonders how anyone can drink this, then encounters a roach in the shower before thinking aloud about marriage for a while.

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Long Island, a Cockroach in the Shower, and a Ramble

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 anything about food. They have no clue about what happens at a restaurants, what’s behind the production process, or what drives the consumer.” Nidal, by contrast, is passionate about dining and has leveraged that passion to build a successful firm that the people behind the food he loves can trust.

Nidal joined Mike Beltrán at Ariete to talk about his career in food marketing, how Miami has grown as a food city over the last decade or so, and what it would mean for the city to get a Michelin Guide.

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Nidal Barake of Gluttonomy on food marketing, Michelin Guides and Miami dining

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 from scratch for the first time.

Also, the new Suicide Squad movie was pretty good, Mike did a thing with Ludacris, and Pan Con Podcast’s next live episode dinner is right round the corner.

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Michael Beltrán on the reopening of Chug's Diner

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, Louie’s been cranking out Cuban classics the city’s Cubans were sorely missing at a level of quality that’s earned him a following even in lechón-saturated South Florida.

Louie joined Mike at Ariete to record this conversation about his food, his career, and his plans to bring My Cuban Spot back home with him to Miami.

Also, in the Patreon-only extended cut of this episode, Louie lays out his preferences on pastelitos, coffee, doughnuts and more.

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Louie Estrada of My Cuban Spot on bringing real Cuban cooking to Brooklyn

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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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Chef Ryan Ratino of Washington D.C.'s Michelin-starred Jônt and Bresca on Pan Con Podcast

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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Recapping a tasting menu with chef Manny Arredondo

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 been working with Mike, the two have become friends. On this episode of Pan Con Podcast, Mike and Larry talk about food journalism, influencers, social media, food festivals and the ghost kitchens.

In the Patreon-only extended cut, Mike poses an extra five questions to Larry.

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Publicist Larry Carrino on social media, food festivals and his Mike Beltran impression

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 for himself and his friend when they had the munchies.Today, Fireman Derek’s Bake Shop has two Miami locations and delivers baked goods nationally.

On this episode, Derek and Mike discuss the business of dessert, hospitality, food TV, new media, and the cultural value of sports.

In the Patreon-only extended cut of this episode, Mike has five bonus questions about Derek’s personal dessert preferences.

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Derek Kaplan of Fireman Derek's Bake Shop on the dessert business, pro sports and food television

How do we become the hero right now? 



A hero learns, through the challenges, and initiations, they face, to integrate the both the light and the shadow, the yin and the yang, the masculine and the feminine, to the fullest expression of themself, to be the creative force of change the world is calling for. 



The highest form of fulfillment is to live your purpose from a place of deep listening, intuition and trust. 



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#214 How Can I Be a Hero Right Now? Christian De La Huerta

Miami-based, bookish, eclectic; very nervous; interviews with writers; digressions. Shower thoughts and bar banter. Anxious. You should listen.

Brian Piergrossi is the author of The Big Glow and The Wow of the Now, life coach, blogger, retreat and online course facilitator. He is a teacher of inner peace, love. freedom and empowerment.  Every week he inquires into the frontiers of consciousness and self-actualization with authors, artists.  musicians, healers, spiritual teachers, yogis, activists, revolutionaries, entrepreneurs, comedians, scientists, athletes, nutritionists, psychologists. sociologists, poets, mystics ... and YOU.  Subscribe to catch every episode here.

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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