Found a 2007 review of Comet Ping Pong (pizzagate)

submitted ago 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".

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AreWeSure ago

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.

SpikyAube ago

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.

ConcernedParent2 ago

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.