California Pizza Kitchen Hillsdale Shopping Center California Pizza Kitchen

California Pizza Kitchen

Hillsdale Shopping Center
100 Hillsdale Shopping Center
San Mateo, CA 94403
650-286-9018
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Cuisine: Pizza / Italian
While pizza with cross-cultural toppings is the main draw, the other dishes also merit attention at this San Mateo location.
Openings: Lunch & Dinner daily

Features

  • Dress code: Casual


California Pizza Kitchen Restaurant Review:


We have not once been disappointed by CPK. The list of two dozen crispy-thin pizzas includes all the standards, but there are also inventive versions like wild mushroom, mango tandoori chicken, and B.L.T. --- complete with mayonnaise. Our favorites are the roasted garlic chicken, with its garlic-shallot butter, and the barbecued chicken, the most popular of the pizzas. You can also design your own. If you can tear yourself away from the pies --- we almost never can --- try one of the pastas; we recommend the Thai linguini with spicy peanut-ginger sauce. Another Asian option, the crisp Chinese chicken salad, is satisfying. Salad portions are large, so keep in mind that you can get a half-order. Soups, appetizers, sandwiches made with good hearth-baked focaccia and filling desserts round out the menu.