Recommended dishes: House Bread with Olive Oil, Veggie Pizza
Sarah Schwanbeck
This restaurant has seen better days. The greater wasn't friendly at all. The waiter would offer something like bread and then immediately follow by telling it's not available right now - but we told him we wanted it. Never offered any water and we've been out of the drought a while. I ordered a wild mushroom pizza, which arrived covered with sliced button mushrooms. And did I mention that the entire seating area smelled of dishwater - because they were using dirty rags to clean the tabletops? Really gross.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 2
Recommended dishes: House Bread with Olive Oil, Mushroom Pizza
Kimberly Garay
An easy choice for medium to large groups. They have something for everyone, including vegetarian dishes. The service is a bit slow but not too bad. The atmosphere is fine, perhaps a little loud.Parking: There is plenty of parking in the mall garage although it may take time to find a space during the weekend.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
James Thomas
The pizza was cardboard and topping was cold and 30 dollar burger not good. It was not cooked to specifications.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 2
Faz K
Chicken Piccata is great! It's got a delicious capers sauce!The most friendly service that we ever received!! Thank you for the entire California Pizza Kitchen team, special thanks to Jorge and Robin!!Amazing food, great service, delicious food!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: House Bread with Olive Oil, Cucumber Reviver
Winson Hong
Nice pizza with friends and family
fadi stephan
It's alright.But the service can be hit or
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
George Chang
CPK, a place where you can get a 200 cals whole 12 inch pizza, but 1600 cals desserts.Isn’t it amazing?I recommend appetizers. Because their pizza is not a real pizza, it’s “California pizza”. Ha hahah haha.Parking: Yes
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 4
Gene D.
One of the hallmarks of the many CPK locations is consistency, at a fair price. Today was not one of those days. Our dining journey was off to a decent start with their complementary bread, White Corn Guacamole, and Spicy Buffalo Cauliflower. The only issue with those were the chips. It looks like they had given us the broken ones that you'd typically find at the bottom of the bag. After that, it went downhill a bit. The Korean BBQ Steak Pizza was a major disappointment. In fact, we sent back of the 2 pizzas we had at the table. A member of our party ordered his without the sriracha-lime hot sauce. So, his pizza a pretty bland with tough pieces of meat. The other pizza came without the sauce as well, though we had not asked to have it taken out. After asking for a side of the sauce, that pizza was palatable. The Banh Mi Power Bowl was just ok. Service was good. Javier got overwhelmed trying to handle our party of 7 and the other party of about 15 people. Thankfully, a team member came by at our request. She took our orders and checked on us frequently.
Not much to add as other reviews echo our experience. Dining in may be a better option than take-out. The pizza dough was pretty hard and devoid of any chewy center with little flavor. Took us ~15 min to get back home after pickup.
Michelle P.
I used to come here a lot more when my kids were younger because they were very understanding about child behavior that sometimes happened lol - the kids loved coming here - I almost always order the thai crunch salad or barbeque chicken pizza - yum - ends up the food is incredibly consistent between locations, which is especially great when your kids are young - I have to give this place 4 stars for that consistency with kids - curly mac n cheese with edamame on the side - a relief and a place to relax with your kids - I don't come here as often now that my kids like to try new things - but sometimes its fun to return - that bbq chicken pizza is yummy
Hen A.
no reservations taken...first come, first serve...attempting to get a table for a large group in the afternoon...arriving at 11am to request...told that they would have it set-up by noon and placed all orders in advance...arriving and nothing was done...staff did start to push together tables and drag some chairs over...was a little disappointed that nothing was set up...no food...eventually, they took drink orders and the food orders were started in the kitchen...food was fine and staff worked hard to get things done...but, would not recommend any large group lunch or dinners here...
Hector Flamenco
Easy access from within Hillsdale mall in san mateo. Pizza are their specialty but the mushrooms pasta was delicious ?
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
Blayney-Paul Foster
I have dined at this restaurant for nearly twelve years. Unfortunately, some how it has taken a downturn, and I had to walk out after my four adult children and I were ignored for 30 minutes after being seated. Servers were everywhere, and when I requested a server, they continued to ignore us. Even more unfortunate is the glaring fact that everyone working there now only speaks Spanish, and they obviously were only serving Spanish speakers, or people of color. I doubt that we will return there soon, and this is after being on a first-name relationship with several of the staff for over a decade, including the floor manager, Carlos, who was not there that day.
Never been will try it
Nice atmosphere and good food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: House Bread with Olive Oil, Veggie Pizza
This restaurant has seen better days. The greater wasn't friendly at all. The waiter would offer something like bread and then immediately follow by telling it's not available right now - but we told him we wanted it. Never offered any water and we've been out of the drought a while. I ordered a wild mushroom pizza, which arrived covered with sliced button mushrooms. And did I mention that the entire seating area smelled of dishwater - because they were using dirty rags to clean the tabletops? Really gross.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 2
Recommended dishes: House Bread with Olive Oil, Mushroom Pizza
An easy choice for medium to large groups. They have something for everyone, including vegetarian dishes. The service is a bit slow but not too bad. The atmosphere is fine, perhaps a little loud.Parking: There is plenty of parking in the mall garage although it may take time to find a space during the weekend.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
The pizza was cardboard and topping was cold and 30 dollar burger not good. It was not cooked to specifications.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 2
Chicken Piccata is great! It's got a delicious capers sauce!The most friendly service that we ever received!! Thank you for the entire California Pizza Kitchen team, special thanks to Jorge and Robin!!Amazing food, great service, delicious food!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: House Bread with Olive Oil, Cucumber Reviver
Nice pizza with friends and family
It's alright.But the service can be hit or
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
CPK, a place where you can get a 200 cals whole 12 inch pizza, but 1600 cals desserts.Isn’t it amazing?I recommend appetizers. Because their pizza is not a real pizza, it’s “California pizza”. Ha hahah haha.Parking: Yes
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 4
One of the hallmarks of the many CPK locations is consistency, at a fair price. Today was not one of those days. Our dining journey was off to a decent start with their complementary bread, White Corn Guacamole, and Spicy Buffalo Cauliflower. The only issue with those were the chips. It looks like they had given us the broken ones that you'd typically find at the bottom of the bag. After that, it went downhill a bit. The Korean BBQ Steak Pizza was a major disappointment. In fact, we sent back of the 2 pizzas we had at the table. A member of our party ordered his without the sriracha-lime hot sauce. So, his pizza a pretty bland with tough pieces of meat. The other pizza came without the sauce as well, though we had not asked to have it taken out. After asking for a side of the sauce, that pizza was palatable. The Banh Mi Power Bowl was just ok. Service was good. Javier got overwhelmed trying to handle our party of 7 and the other party of about 15 people. Thankfully, a team member came by at our request. She took our orders and checked on us frequently.
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Not much to add as other reviews echo our experience. Dining in may be a better option than take-out. The pizza dough was pretty hard and devoid of any chewy center with little flavor. Took us ~15 min to get back home after pickup.
I used to come here a lot more when my kids were younger because they were very understanding about child behavior that sometimes happened lol - the kids loved coming here - I almost always order the thai crunch salad or barbeque chicken pizza - yum - ends up the food is incredibly consistent between locations, which is especially great when your kids are young - I have to give this place 4 stars for that consistency with kids - curly mac n cheese with edamame on the side - a relief and a place to relax with your kids - I don't come here as often now that my kids like to try new things - but sometimes its fun to return - that bbq chicken pizza is yummy
no reservations taken...first come, first serve...attempting to get a table for a large group in the afternoon...arriving at 11am to request...told that they would have it set-up by noon and placed all orders in advance...arriving and nothing was done...staff did start to push together tables and drag some chairs over...was a little disappointed that nothing was set up...no food...eventually, they took drink orders and the food orders were started in the kitchen...food was fine and staff worked hard to get things done...but, would not recommend any large group lunch or dinners here...
Easy access from within Hillsdale mall in san mateo. Pizza are their specialty but the mushrooms pasta was delicious ?
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
I have dined at this restaurant for nearly twelve years. Unfortunately, some how it has taken a downturn, and I had to walk out after my four adult children and I were ignored for 30 minutes after being seated. Servers were everywhere, and when I requested a server, they continued to ignore us. Even more unfortunate is the glaring fact that everyone working there now only speaks Spanish, and they obviously were only serving Spanish speakers, or people of color. I doubt that we will return there soon, and this is after being on a first-name relationship with several of the staff for over a decade, including the floor manager, Carlos, who was not there that day.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 1