Popular West African restaurant looks to new Whitehaven location
Bala Tounkara opened Bala’s Bistro on Raines Road in 2019. This fall, the restaurant will relocate to a bigger space a few miles away, on Elvis Presley Boulevard. (Brandon Dill/Special To The Daily Memphian)
Tounkara opened his eponymous restaurant in 2019, in a small strip on Raines Road, very near the Memphis International Airport, serving such staples as goat curry, chicken peanut stew and jollof rice.
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