California Pizza Kitchen San Mateo

This CPK is located inside Hillsdale Mall and has a capacity to seat around 50 people. The staff is helpful and they have a very helpful guide on their menu that leads you to their website in case you have food preferences (allergies/ vegan/ gluten free, etc.). We ordered the Buffalo Cauliflower Wings, the California Veggie Pizza, and 2 drinks: Peach Lemonade & Cucumber Reviver. The food was good quality & tasted good, although the portions were small for the price. This is an easy place to recommend to someone looking for fresh Italian(ish) fair for lunch/ dinner. Bonus: They also serve free bread as a part of the meal which is always great to see.

We sampled many dishes and unfortunately most did not hit the mark. The Santa Fe chicken pizza arrived cold and was stale, bland and uninspiring. The avocado egg roles were quite tasty but full of more cheese than avocado, which was surprising. Pretty unhealthy but good. The Banh Mi bowl was pretty fresh but the sauce was pretty spicy and could have had more avocado for my tastes. The salmon was one item we tried that was delicious, however it was full of bones. Very surprising from a well respected place like this. The Sichuan dumplings were actually good as well. The only item with no problems and well-liked by all. Overall the cpk failed to live up to its reputation and I cannot recommend it.

Waited over 45 minutes for my child's meal. Spent about $22 for grilled chicken with broccolini, chocolate milk, cup of fruit, cup of tomato soup.They told me they got the order wrong and made fried chicken instead of grilled chicken. They forgot the bread for the tomato soup. They completely forgot the utensils! When I got back to the car, found the chicken was burnt! That's it...back to Nordstrom for a decent meal for my kid!

This Chinese guy is very rude bad customer service. Stating that there was no garlic oil bread. Didn’t want to take our order properly like we asked. Asked to order dessert and bring it to us once we we’re finished with our dinner and said that was no possible. Overall a bad experience. Asked a different server for service instead. The second server Daniel really helped and served our food correctly.

We ordered pizza from California Pizza Kitchen through Door Dash & the pizza was completely burned on the top. Some of the toppings were incinerated. We spoke to the associate & a manager who barely offered an apology and said if we brought it in they could exchange it for a new one or we could try to apply for a refund through Door Dash. They could not explain why they delivered a burned pizza to a customer, only stating, "mistakes happen."

My family and I had lunch here at 1:30pm and it was fairly empty when we got there. The Spanish waitress sat us down and we felt like she was dreading her job already . She didn’t ask us what we wanted to drink, didn’t come to follow up on how our food was or if we needed anything. The bread came cold and stale. When we asked for warm bread she said 5 minutes. After our food came out and we were about to complete lunch (35-40 minutes) she did not bring any bread we asked 2 times during lunch. She said we have to wait, but other 3 tables got bread. Our waters were not filled until after we were done eating. When we asked for the bill and when we were paying (cash) she came and started counting it in front of us on the table (Talk about rude and unprofessional). She then went ahead and rudely smirked saying did you want change, ($7) we said no and then she roles her eyes and said thanks for the tip. Where are all the good employees at?