Here's a link to a bunch of pictures I got off Yelp, though you're probably all familiar of what Comet Ping Pong looks like by now.
The exterior looks horrible (dark green, seriously?) and dirty. The interior looks like it was designed by a schizophrenic. The walls are different colors and look worn down. There's messy "art" and a random assortment of lights hanging from the roof. The eating area is dimly lit at night. The ping pong room looks especially awful and outdated.
The place just looks seedy and shady as hell overall.
The pizza looks pretty average, but most reviews of the pizza seem to be positive so I'm not sure. Either way, I'd expect extremely rich people to have higher standards and frequent high class restaurants that look like this, for example.
How is James Alefantis the 49th most powerful person in Washington for owning this shithole? Why are the elite even related to this place?
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HorseSizedDuck ago
That's what gets me. Even without the "pedophile ring" thing, the whole situation is still sketchy as hell. The restaurant itself looks like they were trying for a quirky, eclectic, hipster warehouse look and missed. Instead, it just looks like it was slapped together out of spare parts. (Check out the walls and floor around the ping pong and foosball tables. It's like they gutted the building at one point and did nothing to it.) It's right next to another pizza place. The whole thing has that i-don't-really-give-a-shit money laundering front feel to it.
I think it's clear that the Washington elites are going there because James Alefantis owns it, and Alefantis is the 49th most powerful person in spite of owning this weird pizza joint, not because of it. The real question is why?