California Pizza Kitchen

The pasta wasnt the best, but everything else turned out great. We will be back. The cocktails weren’t to strong, but did the trick and tasted really good

Great food and service! Always love the Cobb salad. The peach pizza was great tasting too!

I wanted to take my husband to CPK since he had never been. When we arrived less than half the tables were occupied about 4 in the afternoon. We were told there would be a 10 – 15 min wait. We decided to wait. We saw what we thought were 1 or 2 servers, 1 person cleaning and setting up tables a couple of other people walking back and forth to the hostess station. There was someone from management doing an interview with a young lady at a side table. This was all fine but it was hard to understand why we had to wait to be seated. If there were short handed, at least seat us at a table and let us know you are short staffed. after about 10 min sitting in a half empty restaurant, we opted for PF Changs down the walkway.
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We got there, not so busy, 1 high chair request, there were many tables and booths available, 6 family groups with children went in, 2 families with over 5 in the group walk in and sit, but they would not sit us because of high chair, but again there was a booth available WITH a chair set up, plenty of room to sit us but I guess that was to much trouble, so after 20 minutes we just cancel went across to Red Robin and sat with in 3 minute and less than 10 we were eating.

Meh. Wouldn’t be back. Here on a week night, not crowded and didn’t have a server acknowledge us for over 10 min. I had to get up and ask if anyone could take our drink order. The blonde who runs the bar area and waits on the patio said «yeah, him» pointed to a server taking an order and walked back in the restaurant. If only servers and employees knew the value of customer service! Her taking our drink order would have meant everything. But us waiting thirsty and then being ignored and passed off was horrible. Our server finally came, he was nice but the damage was done. Poor guy. Anyway, the food was mediocre. We got ½ Thai pizza ½ club pizza. The Thai pizza was so dry it was inedible, the club was good but needed ranch because it was dry also. The jambalaya fettuccine was delicious, cooked al dente and filled with plenty of excellent toppings. The bread was amazing also, ask for vinegar to add to the olive oil they bring. All in all, we will never be back. Spent $ 70 for two of us with only 2 cocktails and no appetizers. Pass on this and go somewhere else in thr mall area.

Customer service is always great. Girls are always friendly. (Haven’t dealt with a male server yet) Love their food also! Spinach dip– delicious with the bread they give when you arrive! Oh. And the berry sangria-​AWESOME!

I seriously forget how much I love this place sometimes! If you go here, you need to try the butter cake!!! It’s seriously the best dessert I’ve ever had in my life!

This is my favorite restaurant I eat here several times a week. My favorites are the fresh squeezed lemonade, avocado egg rolls or avocado corn guacamole. Both amazing. Their salads are fresh. And their pizza is amazing. I’ve never been disappointed. All of the waitresses are super friendly.

I have been here at least three times and every time I am completely satisfied! The food is great! Service is lagging a little. The last time it felt humid in the restaurant. But the pizza over shadows it all, great great pizza! Oh yeah the bbq chicken salad is really good as well!

Sadly, the Temecula store use to be our favorite local restaurant to eat at. In fact, while under the leadership of Doug Wallace we enjoyed quality food, service. Now, while Mychal was a good server, SOMETHING has changed, various employees, playing on the floor, using their cell phones, texting, I assume, yawning and basically not paying attention to the high standards of CPK or at least the way it use to be. In addition, my wife Chicken Tequilla Fettuccine at a whopping $ 14.99 to have it served MINUS the chicken. Huh? How can that be? Wonder if she hadn’t noticed? Why didn’t the chef pay attention as well as the server? Will we return? Not likely. BTW, the restaurant was dusty on the large window sills as well as the windows dirty. Don’t get me wrong, Mychal was a good server, just stretched THIN between to many tables to pay attention to all of his customer. If you look back a year or two ago, you will see MANY of our EXCELLENT reviews. I don’t know why Mr. Wallace is no longer with you but we assume these differences start at the TOP or responsibility.

Somewhere in the middle as far as chain restaurants go.
Service was fine and this location not too busy when we came for an early dinner.
I had a salad, huge and filling, far from healthy, but the best thing we ordered that night.
The pizza was pretty small and pricey, no great flavors going on, very lackluster, you can get better for much cheaper pretty much anywhere else.
The noodle dishes even less inspiring, overcooked, lukewarm and the sauce watery, not worth the money.
Clean location and the food came out quickly, just did not love the quality, it all seemed very generic.
Not bad, but not worth rushing back for.

Ever sit at a table and you can see that it hadn’t been wiped down very well? And the menu handed to you is sticky and filmy? Lost my appetite for the pizza and had the Italian chopped salad, which was ok. I guess the managers and staff either don’t sit at the tables or never eat there.

I went to this place on a Friday night, not too busy surprisingly. So went got a table outside because it was a nice night. We did that $ 32 for two deal they had going on which gives you an appetizer, two entrees and a dessert. Sounded decent. My girlfriend and I ordered that and our friend just got an order if their crispy mac and cheese.
We got the spinach artichoke dip, my gf got their bbq chicken pizza, i got a hawaiian pizza and we ordered the key line pie for dessert. The appetizer came out and it was sadly the best part of our meal. The chips were good the dip was good so we had high hopes. Her pizza was alright, but my hawaiian pizza was just nasty. Hardly any sauce and the sauce that was on it has such a flavor that I ended up spitting it out. I ate a few pieces of the ham off the top and just decided to fill up on the dip.
Our friend who got the mac and cheese was deceived by their very poorly written menu. It described the crispy mac and cheese to have panko on top and it worded it in such a way that you would think it would just be a small thing of mac and cheese with panko on top. Nope, they tiny DENSE fried balls of mac and cheese, 4 of them on a plate with the tiniest bit of what I can only explain as cheese whiz drizzled onto the bottom of the plate. They were so small and they had so much breading that they were hard, dense and barely even had any mac and cheese in them at all. She couldn’t even eat them.
Our waiter, Andrew, really needs to learn some customer service skills. He came around way too often, didn’t ask us if he could take some of our empty dirty plates and he just kept asking us how everything tasted and didn’t pick up on our very unenthusiastic tones as we said basically the food was meh. He hovered and just made our already disappointing dinner, awkward. We finally told him the mac and cheese things were gross after my friend asked him for the menu one more time because she wanted to read again the description of the mac and cheese she ordered. She told him that it made it sound different that what she got and that they were really gross. All he said was «Oh… I’m sorry…» And then hovered around for a moment before finally walking off… Like uhhhh are you going to offer us anything different or offer to take it off the menu? Nope you just walk off. But he did end up taking it off the check for us which was nice, he just kinda did it so that was nice.
I dunno the quality of the food was just completely not worth the price, we got the key lime pie to go and it wasn’t even good it tasted store bought. Ughh and they charge 2.99 for soda…
Just not worth the prices at all I will not be returning.

This review is only based on the Shrimp Scampi.
I first expected the portion to be a reasonable size for something that was worth about $ 15. But when I was served, it’s was extremely small and disappointing. Not only was the portion very little, the taste was not even great AT ALL. No flavors whatsoever. I just kept eating the bread to trick myself into thinking I got full from it. I kept thinking how sad that I wasted $ 15 on a tasteless meal.
But besides the Shrimp Scampi, staff was excellent and served us on time. I had no problem with waiting and they were always nice to bring us bread. Despite my poor choice on the menu, I tipped generously because I was served nicely.
Before I return to this place, I’ll make sure to check back on Unilocal and see what looks appetizing first. LESSON LEARNED FOR ME!

I love the pizza I love the people I hate and I absolutely hate how I just spent 15 $ on a pasta and they gave me like half a portion I am currently in the dinning room wanting to tell then wtf is this but my gf said to leave it alone but I will not be coming back 15 $ for a kid size portion gimme a break

+1: I love their appetizers and their Thai crunch salad. No one does an Asian salad better, even the Asian places. It has the right mix of greens plus crunchy stuff.
+1: service, they are for the most part, attentive, even when they’re balancing a handful of tables, I really love it when we’re lucky and get someone who’s attentive, smiles often and nice. This happened on ²⁄₄ occasions :)
+1: availability, I’m happy that cpk is available in most shopping centers and I can always rely on them for a good salad
–1: their pizza, when I first started eating at cpk, I was amazed at their creativity but with new places like pieology and other custom pizza, this place is lacking.

I don’t go to CPK often, but this particular one was above my expectations. I stopped by with my girlfriend because she was craving pasta and had not expected much. But her garlic cream fettuccine was really good. Despite how busy the place was, the pasta came out quick and perfectly done. Our server/​bartender was also very friendly and fast. Price was decent, $ 15 for pasta with shrimps. Only one downside was the bread served before her entrée, which felt poorly baked (dry on the outside and slightly doughy flavor inside. The olive dip with herbs was good, though. But I still give them 5 stars for prompt service and food.

I always receive excellent customer service here. Thank you, CPK ! I brought a friend and her son here today. Learned it was their first time ever at a CPK and happy to report they LOVED it. Did notice their summer menu and even opted to try their strawberry mojito. Delicious! Their food is always enjoyable and we love visiting this location whenever we can.

Nice location; I’ve been here numerous times and have always had a pleasant experience. The drinks are well made. I’ve always enjoyed their salads but I have also tried a few of their pizzas, all were delicious which has lead to my return. I’ve never had to wait more than 10 minutes for a table. Only reason for the 4 stars is because it’s across the walkway from the movie theater so on occasion fridays nights you get some
Roudy unaccompanied teenagers; although the staff is great at keeping their noise levels to a minimum.

Always a great place to dine. I recommend the tortilla rolls to share with a group. For entrees, I recommend the Original BBQ Chopped Chicken Salad (w avocado), the Pear & Gorgonzola pizza, the Chicken Milanese, or the Roasted Artichoke & Spinach pizza. All are so yums!