California Pizza Kitchen is a casual-dining restaurant serving up California creativity through its innovative menu items in Riverside. 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.
Mari Meneses
I’ve eaten at CPK multiple times and sadly it is not the place for me however, I can see how others would enjoy it:
I ordered a cream of garlic fettuccine hoping it would be creamy, its basically glorified butter noodles. For those who like plain pasta with minimal flavor and sauce this would be a great option. However I enjoy flavor and creamy pastas so I really regret getting this one, personally. Additionally our drinks were practically 2 sips and the rest is ice. We weren’t able to get a refill until the end of our meal.
The Chipotle Chicken Pizza was really good. The toppings tasted so fresh and the pizza was full of flavor that blended deliciously. The Wild Mushroom Pizza is also nice. They’re generous with the mushrooms. The BBQ burnt ends was delicious and rated the best pizza by our group.
I included our recipt for full transparency of the pricing and so you can see and decide for yourself if the food is worth your money.
… moreJOnas
Most chain restaurants are usually a disappointment. The food is too processed, the flavors are off, and the prices could be better. Usually we go to these places because of the name hype or just nostalgia. However there are exceptions, like CPK!!! As a 100% Mexican I was surprised at the perfect guacamole that I was served. Who knew shaved jalapeños and corn would add so much to it. And you can actually get it for free if you sign up with their app. What you waiting for!!! The pizza was good and tasty. Enough left over for seconds at home. The elephant in the room was the Kung Pao Spaghetti. I mean its more like Kung Pao with noodles not spaghetti, so maybe we should call them that because calling them spaghetti felt like cultural appropriation even to me that was eating it. It was amazing!!! It was delicious!!! It was not enough. The serving was like a pasta serving but for the $23 dollar…. i felt cheated. Yes, not everyone can make such a perfect Kung Pao but for this price I rather keep checking other Chinese places because for that same amount I could actually get two full combos. But yeah I think I would want it again but the price just doesn’t make me feel good. But other than that this place was really good. I will definitely come back!!!
… moreBarbara
Excellent food. The Thai chicken pizza is one of my favorites and with the peanut sauce totally a must try. Everything was just excellent. Thank you for all that you did.
… moreBG
I ordered the steak salad ($23) Only a few spare pieces of beef cubes on there. They were overcooked, cold, dry, bland. It looks like they cook it then let it sit out without oil coating or covering it to prevent it from drying out. Very disappointed!
The pizza is also just okay. Bread is dry. Only some shaved thin slices of meat. It is overpriced for the taste and value.
Most of the food tasted like microwaved food. So disappointed!
… moreDani Renee
1st time here in many years. We went of a friday night at 8pm and it was not too busy..
When we checked in the host quoted 5 mins but we waited about 25mins. We were seated and waited another 10 for a server. They took our drink orders and delivered them and waited another 15 to place our order. Once we ordered the server brought bread and herb oil. Our order was burnt ends mac and cheese, bbq chicken salad, a kids cheese w/sausage pizza and hot honey chicken/pickle pizza. Took about 15 to be served. It was all share-able. The food was ok. The salad needed less dressing, more lime or pepper…it was off for me. Honestly I remember why I don’t typically eat here.
… moredc cruz
Stopped by for early dinner after Soboba Casino , had a wonderful time, pasta soup and pizza & salad yummy food…our server was very attentive thank you!!!
… morebrian mcmahon
Jude,Monica, Cynthia, and Bryant and rest of staff were very nice. Took very good care of me. Felt like a spoiled brat. Thank you.
… moreAlexis Donald
CPK is a great, reliable restaurant. Went in the other night however, and the service provided by the host was extremely rude and uncalled for. The hostess, Ava, was completely standoffish, and was very rude when helping us just try to put our name down. She was inattentive and my experience with her made me want to leave the restaurant completely, however, Sergio the bartender was very great and friendly. He made us feel comfortable and his service was great. Thank you Sergio for turning our experience around.
… moreMichelle Melgar
My boyfriend and I wanted to try getting something new from the plaza. We ordered 2 pizzas and our server was very lovely but not attentive at all. She took 10 minutes to bring is the check when she was only waiting on two tables. The pizzas here are literally a pool of grease. It tasted good after patting off all the oil quite literally dripping from the pizza and which wasn’t cut properly. The sourdough bread tasted good but it was rock hard sadly. We paid 50 dollars, not including our tip. You’re better off going to Blaze for way cheaper and better quality in my opinion.
… moreDBliss222
My friend and I stopped by for a quick dinner. We were seated promptly. Our server was so sweet and attentive, and took our order right away. We started with the Spinach Artichoke Dip, the warm bread with olive oil and herbs was wonderful. We shared the Thai crunch pizza, which my friend had never had, and she loved it. To drink I had the Cucumber Reviver which was refreshing and delicious. My only complaint it was absolutely freezing in the restaurant.
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