California Pizza Kitchen at San Mateo

Enjoy your meal. Good and quick service. We really liked it, including the model.

I come here often and it is a hit or miss depending on who is cooking. Lately. The garlic fettuchini alfredo has been coming out brown…. They asked if i wanted to send it back but i just ate it because i was so hungry. It tasted burnt and like beef stroganoff.

****update****
Im changing my review because this location has improved so much! I probably go here every other week and the food has been really good! Thank you for reading reviews and improving!:)

I have not been there for over five years. The food, service, and choices of entrees were the same. I had the Thai chicken pizza, which visit only available at their restaurants. It was delicious.

I hate to write a review like this, but it’s been disappointing to see the gradual decline of CPK at Hillsdale since the pandemic. This used to be my favorite place. We always sat at the bar, enjoyed the busy restaurant atmosphere while being attentively waited on and enjoying tasty pizza and drinks.

Lately, every time I come here the experience is always slightly worse than the last.
Last night we arrived on Wednesday around 7: 30PM. We sat down in the bar where we waited at least fifteen minutes to even be acknowledged. It did not appear that there was a bartender. Half of the bar was covered in pizza boxes and to-go containers presumably for to go orders.
We finally were able to order, we ordered the Mexican street corn appetizer and a wild mushroom pizza, along with 2 glasses of wine.
We didn’t wait long for our drinks. Our appetizer came at the same time as the pizza which was pretty disappointing. The corn dish was mediocre, it seems that the corn was supposed to be somewhat crispy but it was soft and a bit soggy. The taste itself was fine. The pizza was good as usual.
We ordered the strawberry shortcake for dessert, waited ten minutes (possibly more?) and were then informed that there was no strawberry shortcake.
Overall, the restaurant seems short staffed. Our waitress was kind and didn’t do anything wrong, it seems there was definitely not enough help.
This restaurant could use some oversight. It’s a shame as we always used to love coming here for great service and food. Hopefully they can turn this around.