Found a 2007 review of Comet Ping Pong ( pizzagate )

submitted by ConcernedParent2

Somewhat in the manner of an upstart campaigner, Comet’s arrival has altered the perception of the front-runner. In recent years, complaints about the loud, kid-dominated dining room at 2 Amys had become so strong that the restaurant recently added a kid-free second-floor dining room. Meanwhile, Comet has positioned itself as a thoroughly adult space, as dark and moody as anything in New York’s Soho neighborhood, with a self-conscious design that turns the place into a sly piece of performance art (pizza included). Nothing to stop a ten-year-old from eating here, but there’s no way he’d get it.

http://archive.is/w7jov

Interesting how even they describe it as being a dark and adult space, not "kid friendly".

Nana66

2 Amys?

ConcernedParent2

2 Amys is another pizza joint. This reviewer is reviewing several different pizza places in DC.

AreWeSure

I've been arguing for a while now, that Comet has been since its beginnings been an ambitious restaurant and a busy popular restaurant for years. And if it and Bucks were being operated solely as fronts, they wouldn't need to go as far as they do. People were on here saying there must be some other reason other than food that they got on the food network. This review from what appears to be some serious pizzaheads

But it can’t have escaped Pastan’s notice that the arrival of Comet Ping Pong has given Cleveland Park residents two exceptionally good gourmet pizza places—Comet and 2 Amys—to choose from.

The other half, of course, is the pizza. High-quality ingredients aside—Greenwood canned 2,000 pounds of Toigo Farms tomatoes in advance of opening—this is, in the New Haven tradition, a decidedly oily pie, and with a bolder, more vibrant taste than the pizzas at 2 Amys.

Opened just a year, Comet now serves pies that rival those at 2 Amys as the area’s best. For 15 years, if you wanted gourmet pizza in DC, you were limited to buying the Paradiso/2 Amys model with all its assumptions. No longer.

ConcernedParent2

If you read further in that thread, others say Comet isn't good, a common theme I have seen since I've been digging.

AreWeSure

Yes, but you have to present the overall picture. The place certainly had its champions regarding the food. That's enough to keep a restaurant legit busy. Also that thread is the pizza cognoscenti. They got a two star review in the Post their most recent time. That's excellent. Yelp reviews are 3.5 out of 5. So more good than bad.

ConcernedParent2

No, after researching a bunch of glowing reviews before PG happened, I have found that lots of the reviewers from big "Pizza snobs" came after JA asked them to review CPP, or they came from magazines/blogs that have a connection with JA or Greenwood. I'm not saying there are no genuine good reviews, but lots of them are biased as hell and definitely not representative of your average customer base.

AreWeSure

The Washington Post's restaurant critic is very good and he's given good review at least three different times

SpikyAube

There are other reviews that say the food isn't good. But anyway, I don't see why it would negate all the other evidence, that they make good pizza? Pizza is not really that difficult to get wrong, for a start, and what would you expect, a 'restaurant' with few tables and someone who chucks a frozen pizza in the oven exasperatedly if a genuine customer comes in?

Child and human trafficking has often been linked to restaurants: http://www.wthr.com/article/human-trafficking-concerns-prompted-teppanyaki-grill-raid This guy had a very successful restaurant, opened a second one, and was trafficking young girls from India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakireddy_Bali_Reddy This popular pizza place in St Louis, which was also a karate studio and 'kid friendly' and whose owner was also very involved in the community, was busted for trafficking kids and making child porn: http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2016/04/15/dojo-pizza-indictment-contains-more-victims-even-worse-child-porn-allegations

The fact it's a real restaurant and that people enjoy their food is irrelevant. I genuinely can't believe there are people such as yourself, who have presumably looked through a lot of the posts here, seen the information about the other mysterious buildings, the connections, the insanely unlikely coincidences on top of statistically improbable coincidences, and still think that there is nothing going on here! I don't get it I really don't.

zoltan907

Personal anecdote here: Years ago, my mother had a paper route, and one of her deliveries was to a convenience store that also sold plate lunches. Mom was on casually friendly terms with the store owner, who frequently offered to babysit my younger brother while Mom finished her paper route. She always declined the offer, but a few years later, we read that the store owner was arrested for making, possessing, and distributing child pornography. The children involved were the children of customers, whom he offered to babysit. The parents were low-income people, possibly single parents, who needed a babysitter while they worked. I don't remember now how many children were involved, or what their ages were. I do remember something about a local police officer being arrested for possession of child porn. I think the officer was a friend of the convenience store owner, but I could be mistaken. The officer in question was in possession of some Traci Lords videos. I'm not sure if he also possessed some of the store owner's videos (assuming, of course, that the two cases were related).

In an unrelated case, a local police officer was arrested for allegedly raping a woman in the city park. In yet another unrelated case, a local cop offered one of my then-16-year-old friends a chance to get rid of her boyfriend's DUI ticket by going on a "date" with him. That cop later killed himself after he was fired for posting Photoshopped pictures of a dead teenager on the Internet.

AreWeSure

I don't know that that is often. But I was responding to people who denied it was popular or had a good reputation. They were not making the argument you just made that legit business could be used.

ConcernedParent2

Further down the thread you'll see someone who went to CPP based on this review and they didn't like it. It's a common theme I have seen while digging, one or two will say it is a good, then other people come in and say it was boring or even bad.

AreWeSure

Another person on that board mentions these two

Chris Bianco Dom DeMarco

who are among the very best pizza makers in the US. One is in Phoenix and one is in Brooklyn. It seems the poster made pilgrimages just to eat their pizza.

MAGABoomer

ah ok I didn't go to the full review. It's an odd sentence structure )

Piscina

2 Amys is a pizza place in Georgetown. Stephanopoulos is often there.

rickman

It is in no way kid friendly. An absolute trashy seedy dirty place. Any parent who wants to take their kids there needs their heads tested.

ConcernedParent2

Yes! Every picture I have seen of CPP always looks so trashy and gross. I've been to McDonalds in the ghetto that were classier than this dump. Which makes me all the more confused why politicians and celebrities love this place so much.

Freemasonsrus

Soooo...when exactly did it become "kid friendly"? I mean, that's all we've heard about the damn place from these people from the beginning.

micha_

Aren't pedos the most kid friendly people, in their degenerated progressive minds?

andrevandelft

The word pedophilia comes from the Greek:

  • παῖς, παιδός (paîs, paidós), meaning "child", and
  • φιλία (philía), "friendly love" or "friendship".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia

AreWeSure

probably when families started taking their kids there.

Atlantean120

When Alefantis got on FOX.

dogeminho

They probably said it because of all the pictures of children on their accounts

Cuboctahedron

I think we have it quoted somewhere; can someone bring up that quote? "Kid Friendly"

Put them side by side, make it a meme.

ConcernedParent2

Exactly. They keep saying it's kid friendly, yet every review that came before PG indicate otherwise.

Intheknow

does it have second floor for kids? Is it upstairs or downstairs? Could there be a physical connection to other shops from the "kids room"?

JoJoVoat

Didnt know there were two floors of eating space

ConcernedParent2

It's talking about 2Amys, not CPP.

MAGABoomer

the sentence makes more sense as an autocorect "

complaints about the loud, kid-dominated dining room at 2 AM had become so strong that the restaurant recently

then one has to ask why there are kids there at 2am...but I think we know the answer to that.

ConcernedParent2

2Amys is a real pizza place, if you read the entire review, he mentions several pizza places, 2 Amys being one of them.

Nana66

2 AM could be a chronic autocorrect 2Amy

MAGABoomer

thanks, I didn't go read the whole thing and that sentence didn't make much sense as is :)

ProudTruther

I love the old reviews of this place/ There's one on yelp that reads along the lines of if chuckie cheese was a crack head that smoked crystal meth he would own comet ping pont on yelp from maybe 2011 or so ago i read awhile back. but if you're bored and can handle being grossed out, and don't really want to eat pizza much anymore those yelp reviews are interesting.