California Pizza Kitchen

I don’t even know where to begin. I love CPK and love to visit different ones as we travel different states. We arrived at 5 and it was not busy. There were 4 other parties. Headed to the ladies room and no paper towels. Advised management to restock. Fifteen minutes (after we asked) passed and we were served. Finally they brought us our drinks and we advised we were ready to order. Ordered BBQ pizza, Waldorf chicken salad and pasta with salmon. Bread was brought to our table and apologies from manager followed. Food was served and chicken was missing from salad. They redid my salad and added the chicken. Manager came again and apologized for the bad service and comped the salad and drink. Food was not as good at the other CPK’s but it was edible.

Alisha is the worst server. I’ve had her several times cause apparently she’s always working & every single time she’s terrible at her job. She doesn’t care about you at all, she acts very self-​absorbed & uninterested in anything other than herself. She acts as if serving you is so far beneath her, no one should expect it. When you go here, the food is fine, just make sure Alisha isn’t your server. If she is, don’t leave a tip.

My wife and I went to this location yesterday to enjoy a night out. We were greeted readily and taken to our table. The restaurant was comparatively empty in comparison to some of the more popular restaurants in Boulder. We ordered the five cheese and tomato pizza along with a Caesar salad.
The salad was pretty bland, but the pizza made up for the lack of taste. My wife is a cheese connoisseur, and loved the blend of cheese.
As far as atmosphere goes, having the pizza preparation open to public viewing provides some much needed entertainment. This location has only 2 televisions which were showing local news without closed captioning. Because of this, don’t plan on going to CPK unless you are going purely for the dining experience.
We experienced average waiters and an average wait time for food preparation. Overall, this was a mediocre to average dining experience.

Walked in for lunch by myself and was legitimately ignored. Servers, and even managers made eye contact and just walked by. I am a server myself, so I am understanding, but also have standards. For how so-​so their food is, it’s not worth the bs. I got up and left after 10 minutes and walked to BJ’s where I was acknowledged immediately. Get it together.

I love California Pizza Kitchen, so we had to stop here when we came to visit Boulder. The restaurant wasn’t too busy, and our food arrived quickly. We ordered the veggie southwest spring rolls, mushroom pizza, veggie pizza, and peach iced tea.
The veggie spring rolls were so good. They were filled with veggies and cheese. They came with marinara dipping sauce.
The mushroom pizza was about 10 inches big, and it was filled with mushrooms, cheese and no sauce. The crust was brooklyn style, and overall it was tasty.
The veggie pizza was okay, it was not as good as the mushroom pizza. It has a mild tomato sauce, a mix of cheddar and mozzarella cheese, and it has a lot of vegetables including broccolini.
The service was fine, and everything arrived quickly.
I recommend this restaurant if you like vegetarian pizza or non traditional pizza. The bbq chicken pizza is one of the most popular items. Otherwise, their salads and their cajun Alfredo is also really yummy.

Went here the other night. Place was not crowded at all but the service was really poor. Slow at all levels. Food was a bit iffy as well. Was really worried the chicken was not fully cooked. Our drinks were never refilled even though we sat waiting for about 20 minutes for our check. On top of that, the booth we got was dirty.

Service is the problem at this location. No greeting, not even acknowledged at the table for 8 minutes, then another 7 minutes till we ordered water, and eventually we asked a bus boy for water. Alcoholic drinks took more than 20 mins to arrive.
Try sitting to the right in the restaurant if you want better service.

Yesterday I ordered barbecue chicken chop salad (signature dish) I first started eating cpk in mid 90s the quality has gone down but this is my favorite salad.
When I did a Togo order my order was wrong. No scallions w/​avocado turned into no avocado with extra scallions. I’m not sure if the BBQ sauce was left off. This may not be the salad to take Togo.
I called the manager he was more than willing to help. He even sent a new salad (delivery) I so appreciated. I will have my favorite salad in restaurant next time.

They need to start updating their menu.
First time: Amazing place.
Second time: Good, but noticed way too little appetizers to choose from.
Third time: tried a new pasta was just «ok».
Fourth time: nothing else to try which looked like some thing I would like.
I do not understand why they do not just innovate new ideas.
In addition, they have almost 0 customization when it comes to pasta.
They have the shrimp jambalya which includes ham, shrimp, crawfish, chicken, etc (way too many meats). They could not remove the ham out of everything else.
I think it has way too many meats, so they should work on giving us some customization on our order and working on adding new items to their menu.
I really respect them, but innovation is necessary.
At least 3 menu items a year.

Place is probably fine, but server took too long to even say hi — let alone take our drink order — so we left. The manager did offer to comp us an app on the way out, but we we’re too tired of waiting by then.
Not much more to say than that.

I called to place and order and they told me it’ll be 15 minutes. I waited 25 before calling them again just to find out that my order was never placed or was lost. They didn’t even offer me anything else because of their mistake. I’m very disappointed

My boyfriend and I went here about two weeks ago on a week day, so it was pretty slow and the service was fast. I haven’t been to CPK in years, so I couldn’t remember if I liked it much.
The service was really fast and prompt, the restaurant wasn’t busy and it was pretty quiet inside. The waitress was very nice and our order was perfect, she checked on us a good amount but not too much.
The food was pretty good, especially for a chain restaurant, it was fresh and the flavors were great. The bill was not high either, although we didn’t get too much, we were definitely full afterwards, and walked out with tip and all at less than $ 50.00.
We will go back here again, and would recommend it to others as well.

This place is great — not only is the food good, it’s never busy when we come. The service is routinely good. The one downside is the wait staff who are typically young college kids and, while energetic and nice to kids, have no idea about kids. The manager needs to have an «introduction to kids at restaurants» before they wait their first table. Topics include automatically bringing extra napkins, bring a check as soon as food is delivered and never ever take a full cup or drink without a top and don’t ask if they want chocolate milk!

Upon entry to CPK I had a pretty good expectation for some quality grub. Boy was I wrong. I ordered the Sedona tortilla soup and some Mac and cheese. Little did I kno this was not Mac and cheese at all but Mac and cheese balls. Stupid! They were dry heavy and too thick. I could feel my arteries clog up almost instantly. Maybe some marinara or something could help get these down but not even a full glass of ice water would stop the cheesy clumps from sticking to my throat. The soup was tasty it somewhat saved my experience. And I know that ordering these two items at a pizza place is sketch but wow, this was full on. Literally!

First time to this loc: i) ation. We were driving down the main street there, in Boulder, and needed to stop quickly. So, we also had lunch, and chose to eat here.
It’s a large location. It’s a CPK, like other CPKs. Actually, it’s more open, and more of the food preparation is accessible for viewing.
A couple of complaints for this location, potentially unique to this day: i) flies. lots of flies. It didn’t help that they had propped open one of the three front doors; and ii) waiter. he was pretty apathetic, was clearly trying to be nice, but it was an effort. Messed up our drink order. Started clearing my plate before I was done. Etc.

I caved and ordered CPK to-​go for myself. I got my favorite pie, their original BBQ chicken pizza, without onions. Unfortunately, I picked up the, pizza got home and it was COVERED in onions. I hate onions on pizza. It was all I got so I sat there and pulled out the onions, causing the chicken to fall off. Just a mess. Didn’t enjoy eating it at that point but did anyways.
The stars are for the very nice service I got both on the phone when ordering and then when I paid for the pizza. Both women were very polite, friendly and efficient.
I hope if I go back to this location they can get the order right.

I have ordered take out and eaten at the restaurant itself and I always order the exact same stuff– I’m a creature of habit:) And I have to say, there is just no comparison at all between having the Cobb salad at the restaurant and having it at home. First of the portion size is twice a large at the restaurant and you can have as much bread as you like. They limit you to two pieces when you order to go, even if you ask for more. Same goes for the size and quality of the wild mushroom pizza when ordered in the restaurant compared to take out. I would go as far as to say that I’d rather have their frozen pizza than a to go pizza.

I’m not a fan of reviewing the chains unless something stands out good or bad. We had great service at this CPK and now I forget the server’s name. I do remember she was from San Diego as their name tags state where they are from. We had a big table and a baby so we weren’t that easy but she was great. I also liked how the other servers also checked on us. Otherwise, standard CPK. I did like how they had a few local beers on tapl.

I stopped in here for a drink and the place was totally dead (it was 6:30 on a Monday night), so I grabbed a spot at the bar right away.
The bartender was pretty quick to serve me, and I went with the classic Hazed & Infused. It was nice and cold off the tap.
My visit was nothing special, but not a bad option if you’re looking for a quick drink in the area.

My experience at CPK was OK. Not the best but also not bad. There weren’t that many people that day (Tuesday at around 1pm) so we got seated right away.
As soon as we got seated, our waitress asked us what we wanted to drink. When she came back to our table with our glasses she immediately noticed that my glass was dirty. She apologized and brought a new, clean glass. I was glad that she noticed and apologized right away but that was definitely a turn off from the start.
For my meal, I ordered the Baby Clam Linguini with Lemon Cream Sauce. This meal was great! I really enjoyed it and I thought it was a decent size for a meal. The meal came with garlic, Parmesan, parsley, white wine and red pepper.
The food was good but very pricey. The meal/​experience was not really worth the price. On the other hand, the location is nice being right on 29^th Street mall.