Monique W.
Yelp
It's been several years since I last visited a CPK. My family and I decided to go to California Pizza Kitchen for a rescheduled Mother's Day brunch on a Sunday, around 11:00 A.M. This California Pizza Kitchen is located in Downtown Summerlin, next to Maggianos. There are plenty of parking spaces available.
As soon as we walked in, a team member was able to get us seated with a party of 8. Drinks were provided, water, lemonade, and a cranberry refresher!
While we had our drinks, we placed some appetizers first!
AVOCADO CLUB EGG ROLLS
Hand-wrapped crispy wonton rolls filled with avocado, chicken, tomato,
Monterey Jack and Applewood smoked bacon.
WHITE CORN GUACAMOLE + CHIPS
Chunky avocado, sweet corn, jicama, red onions, fresh cilantro, and spicy
serrano peppers. Tortilla chips.
After waiting about 15 minutes, it really started to get busy inside California Pizza Kitchen. We had to wait a while for our team member to come back over to our table and place the order.
I ended up splitting with my husband [2] different pizzas for our entrees.
THE ORIGINAL BBQ CHICKEN PIZZA
BBQ sauce, smoked, Gouda, red onions, and fresh cilantro
SICILIAN
Spicy marinara, Italian sausage, Capicola ham, pepperoni,
Mozzarella, Queso Quesadilla, shaved Parmesan, fresh basil, and
wild Greek oregano
When the appetizers arrived, I opened up the silverware set. The fork was dirty with dried food on it. When the team member came back around, I asked for a fork replacement and showed him the utensil. From that moment on, everything started to go downhill.
We all started to notice these black little bugs flying around our appetizers. They were landing on the food! No matter how many times we were trying to swat the bugs away! We had informed the team member, but nothing was done, unfortunately. He was pretty busy going to a lot of different tables!
We tried to eat some of the appetizers that were untouched from the bugs. The white corn guacamole lacked seasoning. It tasted like avocado. It wasn't mashed up well or mixed with the other ingredients. The avocado club egg rolls were decent.
After 30 minutes, the entrees arrived.
The original BBQ chicken pizza was good! The dough wasn't burnt. There were plenty of large chicken pieces on top of the pizza! There was just enough BBQ sauce on it as well! We wouldn't order the Sicilian pizza again. The marinara sauce was bland, and you didn't get much flavoring from the cheeses or seasonings.
The best part about CPK was dessert, though! I had ordered the butter cake with vanilla ice cream on top!! It was delicious! The vanilla ice cream mixed with the freshly baked and warm butter cake was yummy!
It was a difficult experience trying to keep the bugs off of our food! It's a beautiful restaurant, though! It's spacious and has a lot of seating! There was also a robot waiter that was functioning inside this CPK location!