California Pizza Kitchen is a casual-dining restaurant serving up California creativity through its innovative menu items in Kailua. Home of the original BBQ Chicken Pizza we also feature a wide variety of other pizzas, salads, pastas, sandwiches, gluten-free and vegetarian options, premium wines, beers, and handcrafted beverages not to mention our delicious desserts! Open for Lunch or Dinner, CPK has something for everyone and now we offer catering and delivery.
Chain eatery serving up inventive pizzas, plus pastas & salads in a modern setting.
Aloha Babe
When we arrived we were hot and outside was really hot. Inside had 3 tables open and we were told only outside was open. Our grandmother is 95yrs old, why the heck would we want her to get heat exhaustion from sitting outside I told the guy no were sitting inside its too hot for her and he said no seats inside, until I pointed out the 3 tables open….then he proceeded to say oh ok you can sit here and we can just add a chair to the outside of booth, yup that would be fine, regardless we would’ve all fit in a booth anyways.
All the food we ordered was really tasteful with the serving size portioned perfect. I didnt care for our server, I felt like he was a real rush in service. He seemed very uptight, maybe it was the day, but dude we just wanted to relax and enjoy our lunch without the rush to order.
Wish we had a different server and this place needs more space, the space in there is way to small, not a good place for bigger people to sit an enjoy comfortably. Its even hard to walk out touching someone’s side accidentally.
… moreIvee M
My daughter and I needed a light / early dinner so we only got the White corn guacamole and chips, Hawaiian pizza and I think my drink was the Lime margarita. The guacamole had a few thick pieces, whoever mashed it seemed like they were in a rush. It did taste good and seasoned well. The Hawaiian pizza was baked perfectly. My drink was good, but didn’t taste like there was any alcohol in it. We appreciated the complimentary bread, truly was a nice touch.
The server that was helping us seemed a bit off. We wanted to ask for the menu to order more since my husband joined us but she was nowhere to be found. By the time she came, we just didn’t bother ordering. She also took forever to bring us the bill. The place wasn’t as busy and other servers seem to be engaging fine with their customers.
Overall I would recommend coming here. The menu has a good selection and most of their food is good.
… moreCandace Tenholder
Nikki was our server and she was absolutely amazing! Restaurant itself was a lot smaller than the Kahala location but food was just as amazing. Highly recommend the Thai Chicken Pizza!
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… moremac.kenzie808
Me and my husband were sat around 7:45 pm on a thursday and didnt leave till almost closing which is 10 pm. We were sat and helped right away for drinks got our drink then our waiter continued to walk by and ignore us for the next 30 minutes. We attempted to flag him down but were ignored he seemed to only want to help the tables to the left of us. Finally getting our food order in, waiting another 30 or so minutes for just the appetizers then another 20-30 for the mains even though it was all placed at the same time. We were never checked on or even given water refills. Wanting dessert and the check at the same time knowing we would have to wait on the server we asked for both. He put in the order for our dessert we paid while waiting and he forgot to bring us the dessert. 10minutes then 20 minutes then over 30 minutes go by while he is walking by ignoring us till I finally was able to stop him and he was oh you guys are still here? Yeah well we never got our dessert. He goes to check on it and said they didn’t even make it due to the way it was imputed. Told to wait another 6 minutes to cook that the kitchen was rushing it. Another 20 minutes go by and he brings it out with the excuse the guys who normally makes it left for the night?? And the gm made this special which is why it took so long. To be there for almost 2 hours for two people was crazy. I under stand if it was busy but it wasn’t. We had paid our bill while waiting for the dessert which we regretted wanting to just remove the dessert and tip. Our server was pie and although nice when he was actually serving us he service and attention was lacking a lot. We have had better faster service here prior with a party of 10.
… moreAD VE
We had a group of 9 people. Called ahead and made a reservation. Even though they were well understaffed we had our table within 15minutes of our booking.
Food was really good and prices were on par with other restaurants. Kids had free soda refills.
Had BBQ chicken pizza, Salmon, 5 cheeses pizza , the works pizza, kids Hawaiian pizza and some drinks. Service was slightly slow due to staffing issues but the all restaurants in Waikiki had this issue.
Food was really good!! I would recommend them.
… moreKayliam
Food is good service is bad
Waiting forever to get my bill the waitress sees me but ask a coworker to go instead had to wait 10 mins then decided to stand to pay but she wasn’t happy about it so she asked me to go back to my seat. Later on I decided to just give a smaller tip than planned and then the waiter got mad at me and almost insulted me.
Well well well if you want a good tip at least be nice to the customer
… moreD Bakker
This restaurant needs a serious overhaul. It smells bad, doesn’t look clean and the service is lack luster at best. We don’t go there often because of this. There are others on the Island that are much better. Tried to get a to go order because I wanted a salad, three people walked by me, One said they would be right with me, walked by again, disappeared and I waited. I waited, Two other employees walked past me as I stood at the counter. ON MY LUNCH HOUR ! I waited… I left Restaurant not busy at all two tables outside and three inside. Horrible service with high prices doesn’t work. It always seems like the employees hate to be there . The only one I have been to like this but has been this way for years and seems to be getting worse. SAD
… moreChristian Roque
TL;DR: None of our food was hot: barely above room temperature.
My wife and I ordered takeout from here on Friday 1/8/21. First time ever ordering food from this particular CPK location. Ordered online at about 5pm for pickup at 6pm. Upon arrival, this place was packed! All the tables were full up, and there were a significant amount of people waiting to be seated. You could barely even tell there’s a global pandemic going on with the amount of people this close together.
Brought our food back home, which keep in mind is only a 4 minute drive. We ordered the spinach artichoke dip, avocado spring rolls, Caesar salad with blackened salmon, a wild mushroom pizza and we received complimentary bread with olive oil as a dip. EVERYTHING was barely above room temperature. Only the spinach artichoke dip, which was probably the best thing we ordered, had some heat left to it. Seemed like they cooked our food when we placed the online order, rather than making it close to when we were going to pick it up.
The complimentary bread was absolutely awful. It was so cold and hard that it was difficult to even chew; my jaw was sore after only one small piece. The salmon in the Caesar was severely overcooked and dry. The avocado spring rolls had nice flavor and crunch, but were oily. Lastly, the wild mushroom pizza was tasty but the temperature issues made the crust on the outside hard to chew.
Flavors were overall good, but the temperature of our meal made our experience truly disappointing. Maybe things would be better if we dined in rather than takeout, but with those kind of crowds during a pandemic, I’ll pass for now.
… moreDennis Agag
As of October 30th 2025 around 12-12:30pm I just want to thank a bunch to the lady waitress for her service. Didn’t get the chance to get her name but she was very patient, nice & spot on with reminding my family & I that food is on the way. As we arrived, we’ve been told short on staff & food will take time. Timing on food arrival was quick actually! Coming from the west of kapolei knowingly there is a cpk in that area, This kailua location is the only restaurant my family & I prefer. Love my hometown.
… moreKantavee Wiengsima
Incredibly yummy pizza ever! I can still feel the tastiness of their house specialty pizza. Also love the way staff treat customers- like we are family and friends. Good food, great service. If Google allows me to give more stars, I would definitely give 10 right away!
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