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His menu is huge, with breakfast food, nine dishes listed under "A Taste of Africa," and burgers, gyros, sandwiches, chicken wings, fried cheese curds and more. Tunkara, who moved to New York from his native Gambia in 1988 and then to Sun Prairie in 2001, said 60 percent of his sales come from the American side of the menu, and 40 percent from the African. He puts gyros in the "American" column, and they amount to half of those sales.

Mahamadou Tunkara owns Kingdom Restaurant at 1865 Northport Drive in Madison. This is an excellent place for those craving fufu or domada, or for those looking for a taste of somewhere they have never been, like Gambia, Senegal, Nigeria or Ghana.

Every day at Kingdom Restaurant, Mahamadou Tunkara serves up dishes from his native West Africa, calling on childhood recipes and familiar spices to cook heaping portions of warm, savory stews and sauces.

Mahamadou Tunkara has bounced around a lot, cooking his African stews, and making his gyros and American fast-food favorites in many corners of the city. This year, he brought Kingdom to the Northside Town Center and is winning fans there. His menu is huge and so are the portions of his distinctive West African dishes.

To broaden your palate in 2019, check out Kingdom, a new restaurant serving Afro-fusion food based on African, Mediterranean and American cuisine. Kingdom opened in early January at 1865 Northport Dr., in the Northside TownCenter. The Afro-fusion cooking is the combination of traditional Gambian and Senegalese cuisine with ingredients and techniques from other cultures to create a hybrid dish with a new flavor based on a classic recipe. The menu at Kingdom will enable people to discover and enjoy African cuisine.