--- title: Giant Wave Ruins Brunch at Moby Dick Restaurant in Santa Barbara description: No major injuries were reported canonical: https://time.com/11596/giant-wave-ruins-brunch-in-santa-barbara/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-03T18:22:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:24.684Z og:title: Giant Wave Ruins Brunch at Moby Dick Restaurant in Santa Barbara og:description: No major injuries were reported og:url: https://time.com/11596/giant-wave-ruins-brunch-in-santa-barbara/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Giant Wave Ruins Brunch at Moby Dick Restaurant in Santa Barbara twitter:description: No major injuries were reported twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Giant Wave Ruins Brunch In Santa Barbara by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Mar 3, 2014 6:22 PM UTC by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Mar 3, 2014 6:22 PM UTC A quiet Saturday brunch turned chaotic when a large wave [crashed](http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-wave-santa-barbara-restaurant-20140301,0,4724352.story#axzz2uujJj8fY) through restaurant windows, shattering glass and drenching the restaurant and customers with seawater. Several brunch goers were filming large waves rolling into the Moby Dick Restaurant at Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara, when a particularly vicious one shattered the seaside windows. No major injuries were [reported](http://independent.com/news/2014/mar/01/video-storm-wave-crashes-through-moby-dicks-restau/). The waves were thought to be especially large due to winter storms. You can watch the madness below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/11596/giant-wave-ruins-brunch-in-santa-barbara/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/11596/giant-wave-ruins-brunch-in-santa-barbara/"},"headline":"Giant Wave Ruins Brunch In Santa Barbara","datePublished":"2014-03-03T18:22:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:24.684Z","description":"No major injuries were reported","url":"https://time.com/11596/giant-wave-ruins-brunch-in-santa-barbara/","keywords":["Newsfeed","weather"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/11596/giant-wave-ruins-brunch-in-santa-barbara/","name":"Giant Wave Ruins Brunch In Santa Barbara"}}]}] ```