California Pizza Kitchen

While the waiter was peppy, this was not reflected in the (unnecessarily long) time it took for him to bring us 2 waters.  Put some pep into that step, boy!

I was in a half-roasted-veggie-salad-no-corn-add-grilled-­shrimp-dressing-on-the-side mood, and the $14.25 price tag (pre-tax and tip) could only be summarized in 3 syllables, or rather letters... WTF.

It was enough food to hold me over for a couple hours, but I definitely needed an afternoon snack.  My piggy bank remains disgruntled.  Snort.

CPK has new "adventurous" menu options (as they like to market it). My friend and I had the quinoa (keen-nuahh) or (kin-noah) as she calls it- and arugula salad. It was delicious- asparagus, pine nuts and a light dressing. The salad was light, crisp, and really tasty.

We both had the salmon which was kind of dry (I've had better salmon) but the spinach corn succotash it came with was tasty.

Butttt what made it phenom was the dessert. Salted Caramel Pudding. OMG. It came in the cutest jar- see images- and was extremely rich and decadent!
Will def. return for this dessert.

Waitress was really nice and really knew her stuff!

Minus one star for waiting in line to eat, and waiting in line for the bathroom.

I went here recently with some friends and their baby.  We also brought our baby.  It was for an early dinner (4:00 p.m.).  This place is so kid friendly, at least during the time we were there.  There were so many families with young children there.  That is a huge plus for me.  Our waitress was pretty great and attentive.    The bathrooms were clean but I wish they were bigger than two stalls (one with a changing table).  We started with the southwestern egg rolls (yum yum!!) and then I had  the BBQ chicken pizza.  To be honest, this is the only kind of pizza that I have ever had at CPK.  It is sooooo good!!