Did you hear about the sting operation recent Oscar winners for The Cove conducted at The Hump in Santa Monica? The covert investigation led to allegations that the popular restaurant was serving endangered whale meat. Above is the ABC 7's news clip on it. It became a national story in a NY Times article. Eddie Lin–one of our favorite bloggers, author of Extreme Cuisine, and Fullerton boy made good–also weighed in on the news.
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.