North Africa comes to East Hermosa [dining feature]
Barsha owners Adnen and Lenora Marouani and manager Maria Vasquez. Photos by JP Cordero (CivicCouch.com) Adnen and Lenora Marouani accomplished their dream when they opened a wine, spirits, and specialty store. The previous wine shop in that location hadn’t done well, but after years of high stress and long hours working in restaurants, the young couple was ready for a change and a challenge. “I love wine, drink wine, study wine all the time, so we decided that when we moved to the South Bay and started a family, we didn’t want a restaurant,” Adnen said. “When the opportunity came to buy Sepulveda Wine Company and we saw they had a tasting room license, so we could serve wine, cheese, and charcuterie without being a full-on restaurant, we said, yeah, let’s do it. Fewer hours, less stress.” Their popular Barsha, next to the 31 Flavors on Sepulveda Boulevard in Manhattan Beach, takes its name from an Arabic word that means “a lot,” or “many.” In Adnen’s native Tunisian dialect Barsha has a connotation of abundance of food and hospitality. If you’ve visited the store you know how appropriate this is. Adnen is everywhere welcoming guests, urging them to try a bit of an unusual cheese…
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