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 he became known even to casual fans, especially Cubans in exile. He’d been outspoken a long time about his opposition to Cuba’s dictatorship, but when that government intervened halfway around the world to silence him during the event, they only made his message louder.

Robeisy and his manager José Izquierdo (who was kind enough to play translator for our listeners here, although he’s kind of a big deal in his own right) joined us at Chug’s Diner in Miami to talk about boxing, Cuba, Robeisy’s hunt to regain the WBO title, and how he has used his success in his sport to tell the world about the struggles of those in his native country.

Robeisy’s next fight will be June 29 in Miami against Brandon Leon Benitez.

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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 Goin, Enrique Olvera, Eric Ripert, Clare Smyth, Alice Waters, and past Pan Con podcast guests Jean-Georges Vongerichten and José Mendín.

She’s also a hospitality industry publicist and the host of the All In The Industry podcast.

In this late-night conversation with chef Michael Beltrán, recorded on the terrace behind Ariete, Shari talks about her book, the state of food media, food festivals, and what she learned from her own career in restaurants, including the time she worked at Charlie Trotter’s in Chicago.

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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 Excellence from Wine Spectator.

In this conversation, Mike Beltrán talks with Adrian about his development as a sommelier in South Florida, how he’s put his own personal stamp on wine offerings at AHG, how he approaches leading the company’s wine team, trends in the wine world, and how Ariete’s two years with a Michelin Star have affected the way the beverage industry approaches him and the broader restaurant group.

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