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Beauty cuisine reflects entrepreneur’s passion
Beauty cuisine reflects entrepreneur’s passion
Beauty cuisine reflects entrepreneur’s passion for cutting-edge restaurants
Miami Beach, Fl – Tim Hogle is a man of many passions. Dentistry is
one. Creating cutting edge restaurants is another. Not many dentists
become restaurateurs. Hogle though, is not your typical practitioner of
dentistry. And he is certainly not the traditional restaurant owner.
Born and raised in southwest Ohio, Hogle’s path has taken him from the
historic halls of Ohio State University to Miami Beach, where he
operates a dental practice that caters to celebrities and has created
dining destinations that reflect his devotion to innovative cuisine.
Long before Hogle entertained thoughts of opening restaurants, he
earned a dental degree at Ohio State and headed for a warmer climate
–originally Gainesville, Fla. where he worked at a dental practice in
the mid 1970s.
After a few years, he moved further south – to Miami Beach – and has
been there since. It was in Miami Beach where Hogle experienced
his first taste of celebrity dentistry as the set dentist for the Miami
Vice television series.
Hogle helped pioneer the concept of aphrodisiac cuisine when he opened
Tantra Restaurant and Lounge on Pennsylvania Avenue in Miami Beach. Now
the successful restaurateur has introduced an innovative culinary style
called “international beauty cuisine” at afterglo, which opened in
August on 1200 Washington Avenue.
afterglo specializes in gourmet cuisine that is high in syntropy.
Simply put, each dish contains wild game, seafood, fish, produce and
rare ingredients that have the least chemical alteration and
contamination and the most life-supporting properties.
The vital force syntropy is designed to combat entropy, the scientific
principle that says natural physical laws cause everything to fall
apart, including the human body. Syntropy works in direct opposition to
entropy by creating more order, symmetry and regeneration in living
systems.
“All food on earth is a derivative of the capturing of sunlight through
photosynthesis, and to define syntropy is to define the shape or form
of that captured energy,” Hogle said. “That shape or form can be
accurately described as order, symmetry and beauty as is reflected in
all life existing in nature.”
Hogle and afterglo executive chef Michael Schwartz have diligently
searched the globe for foods with highly flavorful and “beautritional”
qualities, and have trademarked the term ''international beauty
cuisine'' to describe the restaurant’s culinary style.
“This is about eating delicious food prepared by talented chefs that
allow the return of your innate beauty, which is your birthright,”
Hogle said. “We are redefining indulgence and decadence as something
that is about rare, fresh, flavorful, perishable, delightful foods –
many of which are somewhat scarce.”
Inventive cooking techniques are used at afterglo to obtain the maximum
flavor and retain the beautifying nutrients of foods which are often
destroyed through conventional cooking.
afterglo is not Hogle’s first groundbreaking culinary endeavor. The
entrepreneur’s first restaurant was South Beach’s very first sushi bar
– Toni’s Sushi, which debuted in 1986 and still remains a local
favorite.
In 1997, Hogle opened Tantra Restaurant and Lounge in South Beach, a
restaurant and ultralounge reflecting an ancient Middle Eastern
philosophy that emphasizes spiritual enlightenment.
Tantra has long been a destination for celebrities, jetsetters and
curious palates with its acclaimed aphrodisiac cuisine, sensual new age
music and exotic décor, which includes a live grass floor, softly
illuminated marble water wall, a fiber optic starlit ceiling and a
copper and mahogany bar.
A-list entertainers like Jennifer Lopez, Paris Hilton and Usher have made more than one visit to the aphrodisiac restaurant.
Hogle, who became was one of the first restaurateurs in South Florida
to center his restaurant concept on aphrodisiac cuisine, says it was a
natural fit since the ancient Tibetan/Indian art of Tantra emphasizes
the heightening of all five senses.
“The only two endeavors in which a person uses all five senses simultaneously is in eating food and making love,” he said.
While afterglo’s culinary style also offers patrons a totally new
dining experience, Hogle believes he is providing more than a
breakthrough cuisine with this restaurant venture.
“This is a lifestyle that helps you feel and look healthier, be more
vibrant and be more exuberant,” Hogle said. “It’s all about making a
lasting decision to remove obstacles and embrace the future.”
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Media Contact:
Krista Zilizi
Quantified Marketing Group
706-627-3204
407-936-1010
kzilizi@quantifiedmarketing.com
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