The Broken Shaker team and chef Timon Balloo are opening new spots in downtown Miami

Take one of the best bars in the world and pair it with one of the best restaurants in Miami and what do you have?

A new reason to go downtown.

Timon Balloo, chef-founder of Midtown’s Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill, will open a new restaurant at the refurbished Ingraham Building alongside a new, sprawling cocktail bar from Bar Lab, the creators of the world-renowned Broken Shaker on Miami Beach. The restaurant is set to open this summer, the bar in the fall.

Balloo: Modern Home Cooking is where Balloo will experiment further with fusing the foods from his Chinese, Indian and Trinidadian heritage. His talent with melding that combination of cuisines is what put Sugarcane on the James Beard Foundation’s radar when it opened more than nine years ago.

Sugarcane expanded to locations in Las Vegas and Brooklyn, New York, with spinoffs Duck & Waffle in London. Balloo was also a contestant on “Iron Chef Gauntlet” last year.

Separate from the restaurant is a new bar by Gabriel Orta and Elad Zvi, whose Broken Shaker has perennially been named among The World’s 50 Best Bars. The bar was twice named a semifinalist for a James Beard award for Outstanding Bar Program.

Balloo: Modern Home Cooking

25 SE Second Ave., Miami, in the Ingraham Building

Coming Fall 2019

This story was originally published May 28, 2019 at 12:50 PM.