California Pizza Kitchen

 

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leor m.

Boulder, CO

I love CPK for a chain restaurant, I would almost give it 5 stars.  One of my favorite salads ever is at CPK, its the grilled vegetable salad, amazing! Also the pizza here is so great, I recommend the honey wheat crust, yum! Also my husband has gotten sandwiches there that he liked, and pasta! Sometimes you need a chain restaurant, for example, my in laws are coming in town so we need a restaurant thats good for 12 people, including 4 kids, and CPK is perfect because its big enough and has a huge variety!

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Harmony O.

Boulder, CO

Some friends were meeting here for a celebration dinner last night, and I joined them.  It was my lst time at this CPK location, though I've been to the Cherry Creek location a couple of times over a year ago.

The view of the mountains from here, particularly at sunset, is surprisingly nice.

We had an efficient team of waitpeople who were also friendly considering the size of our party, and the way people were trickling in during a 45 minute time period...

Yes, the waitpeople were very friendly to us, and at the end they did separate bills for us, which was actually helpful and efficient.

Most people ordered pizza.  Some ordered salads.  A few got appetizers.  The lettuce wraps were good, among the appetizers.  

My favorite among the pizzas was the classic CPK BBQ Chicken pizza. I think it is best with the honey wheat crust.  I liked the white pizza too.  I did not like the Tandoori pizza at all.  The sauce over the top tasted like grocery store french dressing with a dash or two of curry powder added to it.  Yuck!

The salad I ordered, just a side salad really, was almost $5 and was not too great, really.  Just lettuce cut up small, little bits of tomato, a few croutons (5-I counted them), some pieces of grated carrot, and that's it.   That's really it.  It was nice and fresh and crispy, though.

The strawberry lemonade drink was quite good.  The chocolate banana dessert was good too.  

I'm a bit of a fussy eater, and don't enjoy chain restaurants much ever, so really this wasn't too bad an experience, considering everything--however, I will not be hurrying back to this place anytime soon.

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Dustin G.

Denver, CO

CPK!? In Boulder?? When the hell did that happen?

Well, I was strolling with my lady friend looking for some grub and we came upon this place. I remember not liking it too much, but then again it was at an airport...so I decided that's not a very good sample and decided to give it another whirl.

Upon entering through the revolving bank-like doors, I was impressed by the modern sleek look. I thought CPK was sort of a fastfood-ish place, but of this I was wrong. We had to wait a few minutes for a table for 2, which really showed that this place was pretty popular already.

We decided to split a Caesar salad and a four cheese thin-crust. The salad had too much pepper, but was still decent and the pizza was good.

The prices however were somewhat steep for what we got. 12 or so for the pizza, 8 for the salad and a few here and there for lemonade and iced tea.

An unenthusiastic 3 for this chain: the food is solid, the service ok, and the atmosphere cool, but everything else is sort of lacking.

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