One of the best specialty pizzas! Check them out at Orchard. :)
A good place to go for American style thick crust pizza!
CPK is one of the best Pizza place in Singapore. The offers a eclectic menu with selections such as Pizzas, Pastas, Salads, Appetitizers, Sandwichs & etc.
I purposely visited this place for its peking duck pizza.
This pizza place have been ard for so long... Nice place.. Nice ambience.. :)
Craving for pizza on a rainy Monday evening so ended up at California Pizza Kitchen
Don't be deceived by their name - they don't just serve yummy pizzas! Their roast veggie salad is also DIVINE! Then tortilla spring rolls... Key lime pie... OMNOMNOM
Beside pizza, they also served yummy pasta.
Vegetarian and Gluten Free menu available also.
A real Family restaurant that caters to all.
California Pizza Kitchen
Forum The Shopping Mall #01-23, 583 Orchard Road, (S)238884
Me n family had hawalian pizza... their crust was thin.. and crispy.. i liked their fresh pineapple but it was sliced too small.. overall it tasted good with their hot and sour sauce..
Nom into their yummy cheeseburger pizza @ just $21.90
my friend brought me to this place for dinner
we had hawalian pizza... their crust was thin.. and crispy.. i liked their fresh pineapple but it was sliced too small.. overall it tasted good with their hot and sour sauce..
the size was quite big.. good for 2 of us.. worth the try
Had a late lunch at CPK after church. When my friend and I got there, we asked for a table but there weren\'t any available yet. We were the only ones in the queue so we asked if we could just wait inside as weather was hella hot (it was 2pm so sun was really up). However one of their waiters, who wasn\'t even the manager, told us to wait outside! Grrr...
It was a good thing that we got a table inside the restaurant after a few minutes of waiting outside. Anyway, we ordered the Tortilla Spring Rolls for our appetiser. There are 3 flavours and you can choose 2. We opted for the Baja chicken and the Meditteranean rolls. Flavour was quite unique in the sense that it doesn\'t just give you the same bland taste. The ingredients meshed with each other so well and came up with a dish that was very intriguing to the palate. The guacamole and chili dips also added to the appetiser\'s character. As soon as we cleaned our plates, this waiter who made us wait outside took the dish (including the dips) without even asking us! I told him: WE STILL NEED THE DIPS for we wanted to try it out with the Greek Pizza and the Broccoli and Sundried tomato pasta. Gosh, he didnt even ask us if he could clear that appetiser plate. SO irritating.
Now back to the main courses. The pasta was very light because it was only cooked with vegetables, tomato, and olive oil. It was a simple dish yet very memorable. The Greek pizza was very filling topped with a cucumber and so many other ingredients I couldn\'t remember. But what stuck in my mind was that the pizza was your not so ordinary pizza which you can order at any other restaurants. Yum!
I\'ve always been quite a fan of California Pizza Kitchen so when they politely asked if I would like to try out their new menu, I simply couldn\'t say no. So there I was, on a hectic weekday evening, decked out in my Sunday best, hungrily awaiting the onslaught of food.
Moroccan Chicken Salad - One of the latest entries into CPK\'s salad lineup is the Moroccan Chicken Salad, which comes with a bagful of ingredients such as Moroccan spiced chicken breast, butternut squash, avacado, beets, cranberries, just to name a few. It does sound like a healthy albeit weird combination but I personally found it interesting with the myriad of texture and tastes. But it did get to a point where I didn\'t exactly know what I was eating due to the mish mash of flavours. If only they had it in smaller portions (half size is still too big in my humble opinion).
Sonora Egg Rolls - Apparently Sonora is a state in northwestern Mexico, which explains the Tex Mex vibe I got from eating the egg rolls. Crisp wanton skin wrapped around grilled lime chicken, roasted corn, black bean salsa, cheeses, roasted mild chillis and the likes - Nice blend of creaminess and a mild corn taste. The ranch dressing was a little like tartar sauce with a bit of spice from the bottled Cholula hot sauce.
Kung Pao Linguine - CPK\'s interpretation/add on to the traditional Chinese Kung Pao chicken, throwing pasta into the equation. The result? An interesting combination of east and west. The chicken slices were coated with egg and lightly fried. Throw in nuts, the quintessential dried chillis (more for presentation than spice honestly) and Kung Pao sauce and you have something simple yet delightful. It would have been better if the linguine was cooked a little firmer.
Peking Duck Pizza - One of the signature pizzas of CPK and probably the most unusual I\'ve tried so far, the Peking duck pizza had an overdose of hoisin sauce this time round as compared to what I had on my previous trip. Nonetheless, it managed to maintain the chewy and flaky texture of its crust coupled with crispy wonton skins, duck slices and shiitake mushrooms (both of which I failed to notice, probably due to the thick sauce). So who\'s up for a western take on the peking duck?
Pesto Chicken Pizza - This pizza came in the form of a thin crust. Unlike the thin crust pizzas served in Italian outfits, CPK\'s version is considered an inbetween. Thinner than your regular thick crust pizzas yet thicker than your usual Italian thin crusts. Taste wise, the pesto base was reassuring with the sundried tomatoes but honestly quite a boring pizza - no twist or turns to entice me to take another slice. But maybe that\'s because I\'m not a huge pesto fan.
The Meat Cravers Pizza - The first thing that hit me when I took a bite of this pizza was that my digestive tract had too much sodium going into it and I was reaching out for my glass of water in an attempt to dilute/neutralise it. While it may sound like a joke (yes it is!), the pizza as a whole was really quite salty probably due to the combination of salami, pepperoni, Italian sausage and bacon. I am a carnivore, but in this case, less is more. Thankfully the crust was nice and the cheese gooey. And of course for that glass of water beside me.
Tiramisu - To be fair, the tiramisu was decent, but not the authentic Italian kind I was more exposed to. For starters, the alcohol wasn\'t quite prominent and the mascarpone reminded me more of ice cream. Instead of the usual cocoa powder, shaved chocolate was used. Very palatable and best eaten without any preconceived notions of how a tiramisu should taste like.
Chocolate Souffle Cake - No oozing chocolate (which was a disappointment really), but still enjoyable nonetheless with its dense chocolate concentration as well as the nice thick chocolate sauce drizzled over it. Let\'s not forget the huge scoop of vanilla bean ice cream. Sinful comfort food.
Red Velvet Cake - What\'s interesting about this cake is that the the addition of beet into the mixture gives rise to the layers of red sponge, which is frosted with white chocolate and vanilla bean cream cheese. In reality however, it didn\'t taste too much out of the ordinary, very much like white chocolate cake with a nice creamy finish.
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Lazy to cook on a weekday night, i head to California pizzaat The Forum. Usually packed with caucasians and singaporeans, the restaurant give me an impression that the food and service was good that\'s why there is a lot patrons. Service was great as the waiter was attentive to us. We waited around 10 to 15 mins for the pizza.The spaghetti bolognese\'s tomato sauce was thick and goes well with the spaghetti. The waiter helped us to cut the pizza and served to us. The pizza was thick and generous with meat and cheese. As the pizzawas too huge for 2 person so there was left overs and the waiter kindly packed the pizza for us to take away.
I had the peking duck pizza at California Pizza Kitchen. It was like east meets west. The toppings were unique, I like the sweet bbq sauce, the tender duck meat and wanton crisps.
Maybe it would have been better if I switched it to thin crust though, as the ordinary crust was a bit too much for my liking.
This was my first visit to California Pizza Kitchen, and would be my last.
I ordered a shrimp roll as appetizer, which tasted like vietnamese spring roll.
I ordered a thin crust pizza, which was hard and not cheesy, and tasted like indian naan.
I ordered a blue crab cake pasta, and the pasta tasted sour-ish, and the blue crab cake tasted like something from old chang kee. The only food which agreed with my taste buds was the asparagus.
The food seems to be a fusion of flavours, and not "western" as I had expected.
I simply love the pizza at california pizza kitchen. Lately my family have been on a pizza craze, we have been eating different pizzas at different places, trying out new flavours, having all kinds of restaurants to deliver to our home. California pizza kitchen’s pizza is one of the nicest I have eaten. They are not stingy with their ingredients and toppings. The crust is very cripsy and the sauce is really tasty. I give it two thumbs up!
It had been a good reliable place to visit with friends and colleagues. The pizzas are usually very good.