The Forge Restaurant | Wine Bar by Shareef Malnik

The recent Marlins Inaugural Ball at the Hotel Intercontinental was a home run. If you weren’t there, you should have been! Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria, former Mayor Manny Diaz, Jeff Conine, Andre Dawson, Jorge Plasencia, along with event co-chairs Jamie and David Rosenberg and team president David Samson and his wife Cindi, honored many people including my friend Nicole Lozano for her tremendous work with the Miami Science Museum.

We sat with Nicole and Edgar at their table and had a fabulous view of the band. Shareef Malnik was spotted chatting with Dr. Jeffrey D. Kamlet, where the two were celebrating their joint birthdays.

There were fab auction items, including a guitar signed by Creed lead singer Scott Stapp, which Jennifer Diliz from the Marlins Foundation got from my closet! She came over to see me about the event, and I gave her one of my personal guitars to auction off. When I ran into team president David Samson at the gala, he told me he was bidding on the guitar and really wanted to win it!